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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives
Title: Beulah "Dickie" Garrigues Collection
Creator:
Garrigues, Buelah "Dickie"
Identifier/Call Number: URB.BDG
Extent:
1.20 linear feet
Date (inclusive): 1939-1992
Abstract: Beulah "Dickie" Garrigues was a
founding board member (and treasurer) of the Inglewood chapter of the Business and
Professional Women's Club. She was a legal secretary who lent her expertise in the field to
her professional organization and worked as a career spokesperson to high school students.
The papers of Dickie Garrigues document her leadership in three women's clubs located in
Inglewood, California between 1939 and 1992: Business & Professional Women's Club of
Inglewood, Legal Secretaries Association of Inglewood, and Soroptimists International (Club)
of Inglewood. Ms. Garrigues severed in several different capacities including club president
and historian.
Language of Material: English
Founding board member (and treasurer) of the Inglewood chapter of the Business and
Professional Women's Club, Buelah "Dickie" Garrigues, was a legal secretary who lent her
expertise in the field to her professional organization and worked as a career spokesperson
to high school students. Garrigues remained active within her community and also became one
of the charter members of the Inglewood chapter of the Soroptimist International on April
21, 1947.
Tireless volunteerism is chronicled in the Soroptimist history as being an "average of
2,000 hours of service yearly is donated by the members, telephoning for blood donors for
the American Red Cross, canvassing social businesses for United Way, securing members for
the annual YMCA membership campaign, planting flowers for city beautification, and
supervising Venture and "S" Clubs. Garrigues served on many of the Soroptimist committees
and also wrote procedural rules for the organization. Buelah "Dickie" Garrigues became a
life member of the Soroptimist International of the Americas on April 27, 1978, over 30
years after her volunteerism and committment to these organizations began. In 1982,
Garrigues was honored and given a commemorative plaque for over 35 years of service.
The
Beulah "Dickie" Garrigues Collection documents her
leadership in three women's clubs located in Inglewood, California between 1939 and 1992:
Business & Professional Women's Club of Inglewood, Legal Secretaries Association of
Inglewood, and Soroptimists International (Club) of Inglewood. Ms. Garrigues served in
several different capacities, including club president and historian. She presented her
histories at annual club dinners as part of the program. The collection includes articles of
incorporation, by-laws, correspondence, ephemera, handbooks, newspaper clippings, song
books, music, newsletters, photographs, scrapbook of activities, speech notes, and related
materials. The collection has been divided into three series:
Business
and Professional Women's Club of Inglewood
(1939-1944),
Legal Secretaries Association of Inglewood
(1947-1971), and
Soroptomists International (Club) of
Inglewood
(1947-1992).
Series I,
Business and Professional Women's Club of Inglewood,
contains correspondence and newspapers clippings. The files are arranged in alphabetical
order.
Series II,
Legal Secretaries Association of Inglewood, contains
announcements and bulletins, articles of incorporation, by-laws, charter (copy), conference
programs, membership roster and presidents' lists, newspaper clippings and speeches. The
files are arranged in alphabetical order.
Series III,
Soroptimists International (Club) of Inglewood,
contains programs and speeches, annual reports, correspondence, invitations, membership
procedures, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, photographs, song sheets, and the president's
scrapbook. The files are arranged in alphabetical order.
Series I: Business and Professional Women's Club of Ingelwood, 1939-1944
Series II: Legal Secretaries Association of Inglewood, 1947-1971
Series III: Soroptimists International (Club) of Inglewood, 1947-1992
The collection is open for research use.
Copyright for unpublished materials authored or otherwise produced by the creator(s) of
this collection has not been transferred to California State University, Northridge.
Copyright status for other materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials
protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires
the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be
commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any
use rests exclusively with the user.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
George L. Garrigues. 11/08/2001.
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Robert G. Marshall, May 2002
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Documents
Photographs
Scrapbooks