Register of the Faculty Wives, University of California, San Francisco Records, 1948-87
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Register of the Faculty Wives, University of California, San Francisco Records, 1948-87
Collection number: MSS 89-38
UCSF Library & CKM
Archives and Special Collections
University of California, San Francisco
Contact Information:
- UCSF Library & CKM
- Archives and Special Collections
- 530 Parnassus Ave.
- San Francisco, CA 94143-0840
- Phone: (415) 476-8112
- Fax: (415) 476-4653
- Email: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/collections/archives/contact
- URL: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/collections/archives
- Processed by:
- Special Collections staff
- Date Completed:
- June 29, 1989
Additions February 8, 1990
- Encoded by:
- Brooke Dykman Dockter
© 1997. The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Faculty Wives, University of California, San Francisco Records,
Date (inclusive): 1948-87
Collection number: MSS 89-38
Creator: Faculty Wives, University of California, San Francisco
Extent: 1 carton, 1 scrapbook
Repository:
University of California, San Francisco. Library. Archives and Special Collections.
San Francisco, California 94143-0840
Shelf location: For current information on the location of these
materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Provenance
Received 6/89, from J. Bovill, F. Larragueta; Additions received 2/7/90 from Josephine
Bovill: Presidents' Book (1948-49), two cookbooks (1950, 1957), three copies
Bear
Facts,
incorporated where appropriate.
Access
Collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Faculty Wives, University of California, San Francisco Records,
MSS 89-38, Archives & Special Collections, UCSF Library & CKM
Organizational History
The organization began in 1917 after the opening of the University Hospital, when the
need for some type of non-official support was needed. The first name adopted by the
group was "Ladies of the Medical Faculty of UC," apparently the first such group west of
the Mississippi. In 1925 the name was changed to "Doctors' Wives Association of U.C.,"
and the goals were much the same: working for hospital as needed, providing social
occasions for wives of medical faculty. One of the earliest projects was the provision of
clothing for children in the pediatric wards. In the years that followed, the Doctors'
Wives also supported Dr. Olney's camp for diabetic children, decorated Christmas trees,
and provided furnishings for Millberry Union.
After the opening of Moffitt Hospital, with the establishment of the Hospital Auxiliary
in 1959, the Doctors' Wives were less involved with the hospitals, and focused on other
projects, including provision of household goods for newly arrived foreign scholars, loan
fund for students, funding for the clock installation on Millberry Union, etc. In 1970
the group changed its name to "Faculty Wives" and included members from all the schools
on campus.
Scope and Content
Records include correspondence, minutes, announcements and flyers, historical
information, subject files.
Series I. Administrative Records
Carton Ctn. 1, Folder 1
Audit records, 1965/66-1977/79
Folder 5
Presidents' book (minutes of meetings, etc.) 1948-49
Folder 6
Treasurer's report, 1966-81
Folder 7
Board meeting minutes, 1968/69-1987
Folder 8
General meetings: reports, 1958-80
Folder 10
Tax exempt status reports
Folder 12
Central campus court project, 1965-68
Folder 18
Foreign scholars loan closet
Folder 21
History: first fifty years
Folder 27
Women's Auxiliary, SF Medical Society, 1963-68
Folder 29
UC Hospital Auxiliary, 1973-
Carton Ctn. 1
Scrapbook: UCSF Faculty Wives Phantom Fund
64 copies of
The Bear Facts, Faculty Wives' publication
