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Collection Overview

Historical Note

Scope and Contents of the Collection

Organization of the Collection

Search Terms

Faculty Club Records, 1891-1962

Finding Aid

Finding aid prepared by Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Peter Nelson.

Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

© 2003

Historical Note

The first meeting of the Faculty Club was held on January 14, 1914, with President Alexander Meiklejohn as the chair. At this time, the club was not named; it officially became the "Faculty Club of Amherst College" on March 3, 1914. Initially, it held its meetings in Hitchcock Hall, which stood on the site of what is now (2003) Converse Hall. Meetings normally included supper, which was arranged and cooked by a committee appointed by the club's president. In the following years, the faculty club met in Hitchcock Hall (1914-1917), Appleton Hall (1917), the Octagon (1918-1919), Morgan Library (1919-1925), Noah Webster Library (from 1926 until the fire in Webster in 1939), and Sidney White House (1942-). The Faculty Club merged with Amherst College Women in 1984 to form the Amherst College Association.

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Scope and Contents of the Collection

Minutes, treasurer's reports, bank statements, bills, and correspondence relating to the activities of the Faculty Club from 1914 to 1962.

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Search Terms

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Organization of the Collection

This collection is organized into two sections:

• 1. Minutes and Other Records, 1914-1962
• 2. Bills, Bank Statements, Programs and Correspondence, 1891-1958

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Section 1: RECORDS AND MINUTES OF MEETINGS, 1914-1962

Section 2: BILLS, BANK STATEMENTS, PROGRAMS, CORRESPONDENCE, 1891-1958