ELWYN B. ROBINSON DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
CHESTER FRITZ LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA
GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA 58202

NORTH DAKOTA COUNCIL OF ADMINISTRATIVE WOMEN IN EDUCATION RECORDS

COLLECTION: OGL#1076

DATES: 1920-1986; bulk dates 1960-1971

SIZE: .75 linear feet

INTRODUCTION

ACQUISITION: The North Dakota Council on Administrative Women in Education Records were deposited in the Orin G. Libby Manuscript Collection by Sharon Ervin Johnson, Grand Forks, North Dakota, in October 1986 (Acc.#86-1480).

ACCESS: Available for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Department of Special Collections.

HISTORICAL SKETCH

The North Dakota Council of Administrative Women in Education (NDCAWE) was founded in 1923 at a meeting of the North Dakota Educational Association. Membership consisted of women educators in North Dakota who held executive positions. The purpose of the Council was to strengthen professional relationships among administrative women, to help maintain high professional standards among women, to work towards the advancement of education in North Dakota and recognize outstanding achievements by women educators. An early custom of the group was an annual award presentation to an outstanding North Dakota woman educator. Named the Administrative Women's Award, the first award was given in 1936 to Clara Richards of Fargo. On February 17, 1949, the NDCAWE formally joined the National Council of Administrative Women in Education (NCAWE).

Although disbanded for a time in the 1970s, the North Dakota Council of Administrative Women in Education was revived in 1980 and became part of the North Dakota Council of School Administrators.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The North Dakota Council of Administrative Women in Education Records consist of material relating to both the NDCAWE and the National Council of Administrative Women in Education. By-laws, constitutions, minutes of meetings, agendas, correspondence, awards, programs and a written history are among the items included. The material dates from the 1920s until the 1970s, but the greatest bulk of material is from the 1960s. Material is divided by subject and arranged chronologically within each subject folder.

BOX AND FOLDER INVENTORY

Box 1

Folder 1. NCAWE:By-laws and constitutions, 1949-1969

       2. NCAWE:Minutes of meetings, 1960-1971

       3. NCAWE:Correspondence, 1960-1971

       4. NCAWE:Newsletters, 1968-1971

       5. NCAWE:Booklets and programs

       6. NCAWE:Programs and ideas

       7. NDCAWE:History, 1948, 1963

       8. NDCAWE:By-laws and constitution, undated

       9. NDCAWE:Meeting agendas, 1960-1970

      10. NDCAWE:Minutes of meetings, 1946-1970

      11. NDCAWE:President's book, 1953-1970 (Contains the constitution, past 
          presidents, duties of the president, award recipients, officers, membership and 
          minutes of meetings)

      12. NDCAWE:Secretary's boook, 1942-1968 (Contains the constitution, past 
          presidents, award recipients, membership, officers, agendas, minutes of meetings 
          and a history)

      13. NDCAWE:Certificate of membership in NCAWE, February 1949

      14. NDCAWE:Membership lists, 1940s-1968

      15. NDCAWE:Correspondence, 1948-1986

      16. NDCAWE:Miscellaneous newsletters

      17. NDCAWE:Administrative Women's Award, 1936-1959

      18. NDCAWE:Program ideas

      19. NDCAWE:North Dakota Council on Education

      20. NDCAWE:Miscellaneous order/application forms

      21. NDCAWE:Miscellaneous

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