Guide to the Women's Dormitory Association, University of California, Berkeley records, 1935-1965
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Guide to the Women's Dormitory Association, University of California, Berkeley Records, 1935-1965
Collection number: CU-280
University Archives, The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
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Collection Summary
Collection Title: Women's Dormitory Association, University of California, Berkeley Records,
Date (inclusive): 1935-1965
Collection Number: CU-280
Creator:
University of California, Berkeley. Women's Dormitory Association
Extent:
1 box and 1 package
Repository: The
Bancroft Library. University Archives.
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Languages Represented:
English
Information for Researchers
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Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item], Women's Dormitory Association, University of California, Berkeley records, CU-280, University Archives,
The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Brief History
The Women's Dormitory Association was an organization of women students living in university approved residence halls, co-ops
or boarding houses (but not sororities). Its purpose was to further co-operation and unity among the women on campus, encourage
high standards of scholarship, conduct and participation in living group and campus activities, and link the residents with
the student government. The Executive Committee was made up of officers and house presidents. The WDA president was on the
Associated Women Students board.
The main function was to solve house problems. Other activities were a tea for new housemothers, a scholarship tea, workshops
for house officers and fund raising sales for an annual scholarship for an undergraduate woman.
Box 1, folder 1.
Constitutions, 1952-1965.
folder 3.
Second vice-president (social).
folder 4.
Dues notebook and bankbooks.
folder 7.
Ruth N. Donnelly scholarship.
folder 8.
Constitutions Chairman; Orientations Chairman.
folder 10.
All University Weekends: 1958, 1960, 1962.
folder 11.
Activities: Flower Sale, Candle Sale, Scholarship Dessert, Housemother's Tea.
folder 12.
Mother's Club scholarship.
folder 15.
Housing questionnaire of 1961-62.
folder 17.
Rep-at-large area; Large house reps.
folder 19.
Officer reports, 1942-1965.
folder 21.
Minutes, agendas, Ex. comm. & Council 1949-1960.
folder 22.
Minutes, agendas, Ex. comm. & Council 1960-1966.
folder 23.
Attendance records and minutes 1949-1954.
folder 24.
Attendance records and minutes 1941-1949.
folder 27.
Minutes of the Beaudelaire Club 1943.
volume Oversize
Scrapbooks
Scope and Content Note
Include clippings, some programs and invitations, lists of officers. Volume 2 contains photographs of some of the groups houses
about 1952.
