University of Louisville -- Societies, etc.

Scope and Contents

Records contain newsletters, clippings, a recruiting proposal, fact sheets and press releases. The material documents the BSU's effort to persuade the university to expand academic course offerings, financial aid, and tutorial programs. It also documents a subsequent confrontation and occupation of a university building and the arrest, expulsion and reinstatement of some of the participants.

Content Description

Includes: financial records; organizational records, correspondence; chapter meeting reports; chapter histories; chapter officers' handbooks; blank forms; The Bulletin, 1954-1964 (not a complete run); The Radiations of Sigma Pi Sigma, 1950-1964 (not a complete run); photographs; one movie film, The Scouts in Smokies; scrapbook, 1952; student papers submitted as a requirement for membership; membership card index.

Scope and Contents The records include correspondence with the national office that appears to be ribbon copies of letters to the national headquarters with carbon copy replies and other correspondence from 1943-1967. No correspondence with the national office is available for 1966 and 1967. From 1949 to 1967, the files include records of other chapter business, such as minutes, membership applications, by-laws, pledge manuals, intra-university memoranda, and committee assignments. Another file documents...

Scope and Contents Includes correspondence, constitution and by-laws, financial records, information about attempts to secure a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, announcements, membership lists and directories, list of medalists, and a history of the society by Leonora Johnston. Also includes newspaper clippings, programs, informational flyers and the Woodcock Society medal given to Bishop Charles E. Woodcock by the Woodcock Society in 1935. A small amount of additional information is available in the University...