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A. S. W. S. U. ACTIVITIES CENTER
Records, 1935-1974

The records of the A. S. W. S. U. Activities Center were deposited at the Washington State University Library in August, 1975. They were processed from February 1976 to May 1976 by Ross James Pegler.

HISTORY OF OFFICE

The ASWSU (Associated Students of Washington State University) Activities Center serves the university by organizing, directing and generally over-seeing many campus-related student group activities. Administering of student organizations includes constant evaluation and advisement.

The Activities Center was established with approval of the Board of Regents in the Spring of 1947 in answer to student and faculty demands. It began operation during the fall semester of that year. The goal of the Activities Center was to enable a joint student-faculty coordination and participation in student and campus life. The student-faculty cooperative effort was to be augmented by a staff of professionals through whose help the Activities Center was "to bring efficiency and direction by coordinating and guiding existing student organizations, by assisting new groups in developing new programs, an by aiding individual students in planning a balanced program of activities." (As observed in a Review of Student Activities Center Program, April, 1948).

At the time the Activities Center was organized, most of the social activities and student involvement in campus life were coordinated by living groups. As students' living arrangements gradually became more diffuse, the Activities Center became a more important central focal point coordinating their activities. The Activities Center, therefore, became a place of general guidance, assistance and counseling for student committees and concerns. Furthermore, it became a central repository for committee records where evaluations of past activities could be used for recommendations of procedures for future efforts. In this regard, on an annual basis, evaluations of past activities could be used for recommendations of procedures for future efforts. In this regard, on an annual basis, evaluative reports are filed with the Activities Center so that evaluations of the programs can be made; these reports are filed by Committee Chairmen, as well as by faculty advisors to individual committees.

The Activities Center also played a supplemental role in reorganization of the student government. Prior to the formation of the Activities Center, and for some time after it began, the major student government organizational structure was the class governments. However, in time, and especially during the decade of the 1960s, the ASWSU (an organization of all students) superseded the class government system, and the class governments were discontinued in 1968. For the Activities Center this has meant that the role of the students, in directing and actually involving themselves in the workings of the Activities Center, has increased. What was once a joint student-faculty arrangement, in conjunction with professional administrators, has become more of a joint effort between students and professionals.

DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

The records of the Activities Center include memoranda, reports, correspondence, and committee materials such as brochures, financial records, minutes, rosters and membership lists of the student committees. They cover the period since World War II and the establishment of the Activities Center, 1946-1973.

ARRANGEMENT OF THE RECORDS

The collection has been arranged by committee or organization in alphabetical order. Most are contained in a single folder, but several are larger and more extensive.

Records of Activities Committees, project organizations, and project coordinators, 1946-1973 (accession of 1975)

Box	Description	Items
1	Bands and Bookers: Correspondence, publicity and information from booking agents, notes and financial information, 1968-1970. (2 folders)	170
	Blood Drives: Advisors and annual final reports, correspondence, committee notes and arrangements information, 1952-1966.	60
	Carnivals: Carnival Committee annual reports, 1955-1966	10
	Committee on Political Education: Advisor's report and newspaper clippings, 1963-1965.	2
	Cougar Code: Correspondence and memoranda, annual reports, code manuals, 1953-1956.	30
2	Cougar Code: Correspondence and memoranda, annual reports, code manuals, 1956-1963.	30
	Cougarettes: Annual reports, cheers and other materials memoranda and correspondence, 1961-1969.	20
	Cougar Coordinating Council: Annual reports, correspondence and memoranda, 1967 Oregon State University football game arrangements, 1956-1964; 1965-1968. (2 folders)	20
	Crimson Block: Annual reports, correspondence and committee materials, 1961-1968.	25
	CUB Christmas: Annual reports, photographs and committee organizational information, 1953-1966.	65
	CUB Crafts Committee: Annual reports, 1956-1960.	3
	CUB Crafts Operation and Program Report: Annual report, 1959-1960.	1
3	CUB Dance: Annual reports, committee materials: band publicity, correspondence, financial records and contracts, 1952-1967; 1968-1969. (2 folders)	150
	CUB Games Committee: Annual reports, 1953-1963.	3
	CUB House Committee: Annual reports, general policy statement, 1953-1965.	8
	CUB Music Committee: Annual reports, 1953-1965.	12
	CUB Program Council: Annual reports, clippings of special events, correspondence, memoranda, also includes reports on regional conferences and 5th CUB Birthday Party, 1954-1966.	50
	CUB Publicity Committee: Annual reports, guidelines, 1957-1959.	5
	CUB Special Events: Annual reports, 1954-1964.	10
4	Dad's Association: Correspondence, membership roster, memoranda, Association's minutes, constitution, events calendar, 1950-1967; 1968. (2 folders)	100
	Dad's Day Committee: Correspondence, annual reports, financial records (yearly), minutes, scrapbook mementos, photographs, guideline-notebooks, 1946-1952;l 1953-1957; 1958-1964. (3 folders)	150
5	Dad's Day Committee: Correspondence, annual reports, financial records (yearly), minutes, scrapbook mementos, photographs, guideline-notebooks, 1965-1969.	50
	Election Board: Reports, campaign practices and procedures, ballots and results, 1964-1971.	50
	Evaluation Commission: Final reports on several WSU committees, 1957-1960.	35
	Foreign Films: Annual reports, correspondence, selection procedures for films (and choices), financial records, bound volume-reports, movie reviews, 1948-1950.	5
6	Foreign Films: Annual reports, correspondence, selection procedures for films (and choices), financial records, bound volume-reports, movie reviews, 1949-1951; 1962-1966; 1971-1972. (3 folders)	20
	Foreign Students: Correspondence, memoranda, information guides, 1951-1955.	15
	Freshmen-Faculty Weekend: Correspondence, annual reports, memoranda, clippings, 1953-1968.	8
	Freshmen Precept Committee: Reports, 1967-1968.	2
7	Freshman/Sophomore Class Files: Class constitutions, memoranda, correspondence, reports, 1950-1962.	20
	GSA Senate Minutes: Constitutions, minutes, rosters, Senate information and materials, 1970-1973.	60
	Hostel Commission: Annual reports, 1960-1965.	15
	International Relations: Committee reports, membership rosters, information sheets, 1958-1968.	5
	Homecoming: Annual reports, photographs, newspaper clippings, memoranda and correspondence, programs, financial records, 1949-1954; 1955-1956. (2 folders)	140
8	Homecoming: Annual reports, photographs, newspaper clippings, memoranda and correspondence, programs, financial records, 1957; 1958- 1959; 1960-1962; 1963-1964. (4 folders)	280
9	Homecoming: Annual reports, photographs, newspaper clippings, memoranda and correspondence, programs, financial records, 1965; 1966; 1967-1970. (3 folders)	220
	Lecture Artist Series: Annual reports, correspondence, program outlines, contractual information, purchase orders/financial records, 1961-1966.	85
	Men’s Spirit Group (Butchmen): Constitution, correspondence, memoranda, organization reports, 1963-1968.	15
	Model United Nations: Annual reports, 1959-1964.	5
10	Music Listening Room: Record inventory and procedures guidelines, 1961.	1
	New Student Week: Reports, booklets, evaluation formats, 1952-1970.	20
	Personnel Committee: Minutes, interview records, final reports, memoranda, questionnaire, 1958-1973.	60
	Rally Committee: Annual reports, minutes, photographs, clippings, guidelines and duties, 1953-1968.	75
	Retreats: Reports, evaluations and agendas, financial records, 1954-1968.	8
	SR/JR Class File: Class reports, financial records, organizational lists and functions, 1946-1959.	20
	Scholarship Committee: Letter, 1963.	1
	Sports Federation: Constitution and applications, n.d.	2
	Social Coordinating Council: Social guide, annual reports, clippings, constitution, policy guidelines, correspondence, memoranda, 1948-1965.	20
11	Social Coordinating Council: Social guide, annual reports, clippings, constitution, policy guidelines, correspondence, memoranda, 1967.	15
	Student-Community Relations: Committee reports, publicity and clippings, 1957-1963.	10
	Three Forks Homecoming Festival: Committee records, clippings, drafts of letters, 1969.	35
	Yell Squad: Yell King & Queen materials, annual reports, correspondence, memoranda, yells and cheers, constitution, and financial records, 1949-1968.	90

Records of Committees, project organizations and project coordinators, 1968-1974. Accessioned, 1976; processed, March 1977.

Correspondence, enclosures, advertising, questionnaires, and contracts regarding extra-curricular activities. Material is similar to that of Series I, only arranged in a second alphabetical series encompassing this accession.

Box	Folder	Description	Items
12	1	Adverting Survey. Questionnaire, tabulations, and related materials relative to survey measuring the effectiveness of various forms of publicity used by student activities, 1974.	200
	2-6	Art Committee. Correspondence, minutes, notes of Art Committee regarding CUB Arts Exhibits and insurance of art works, 1968-1972.	300
	7	Association of College Unions. Correspondence and convention materials, 1970-1973.	150
13	8	Committee Publicity and Programming. Correspondence, clippings and advertising materials relative to publicity of extra-curricular activities, 1972-1973.	100
	9	Dad's Day. Correspondence and publicity materials, 1968-1971.	150
	10	General Information and Schedules. Correspondence, letters, and announcements relative to a variety of Activities Center services, 1971-1974.	100
	11	Grant Applications. Proposals and cover letters regarding extramural financing, 1970-1971.	50
	12	Winter Festival. Entry blanks, award certificates, correspondence and publicity, 1972-1973.	100

Records relating to recognized campus organizations, 1935-1962. Accessioned, 1976; processed, March, 1977.

Constitutions, by-laws and similar organizational documents of campus organizations, period reports of faculty advisors, and attached correspondence, organized in an alphabetical sequence of organization names. Records of most organizations date from the late 1940s to the early 1970s, with older records included in a few cases.

Box	Description
14	African Students Association
	Agronomy Club
	Alpha Chi Sigma
	Alpha Epsilon Rho
	Alpha Zeta
	American Chemical Society Student Affiliates
	American Society of Civil Engineers
	American Society of Mechanical Engineers
	American Veterinary Medical Association
	Angel Flight
	Arab Students Association
	Arnold Air Society
	Associated Students of the College of Agriculture
	Associated Women Students
	Association of the U. S. Army
	Beta Gamma Sigma
	Block and Bridle Club
15	Cougar Flying Club
	Cougar Swim Club
	Crimson Clover
	Crimson W
	Dairy Science Club
	Engineering Coordinating Council
	Entomology Society
	Fish Fans
	Food Science Club
	Forestry Club
	Graduate and Professional Students Association
	Hawaiian Club
	Home Economics Chapter
	Horticulture Club
	India Students Association
	Intercollegiate Knights
	Interfraternity Council
16	Intervarsity Christian Fellowship
	Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity
	Latter Day Saints Student Organizaion
	Mortar Board
	Men's Physical Education Association
	Mu Phi Epsilon
	National Collegiate Players
	Omicron Nu
	Omicron Delta Kappa
	Orchesis
	Outing Club
	Parachute Club
17	Pharmacy Wives
	Phi Alpha Theta
	Phi Beta Kappa
	Phi Epsilon Kappa
	Phi Eta Sigma
	Phi Kappa Phi
	Phi Mu Alpha Sinfinia
	Pi Lambda Theta
	Pi Sigma Alpha
	Pi Tau Iota
	Poultry Club
	Psi Chi
	Residence Hall Association
	Rho Chi
	Rho Epsilon
	Rho Nu
18	Scabbard and Blade
	Sigma Delta Chi
	Sigma Gamma Epsilon
	Sigma Iota
	Sigma Tau
	Soccer Club
	Society of Automotive Engineers
	Society of American Military Engineers
	Spurs
	Student American Pharmaceutical Association
	Tau Beta Phi
19	WSU Army ROTC Rifle Club
	WSU Folkdancers
	Women’s Recreational Association
	Young Americans For Freedom
	Young Democrats
	Young Mens Christian Association
	Young Republicans