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The Beaumont Altrusa AC -097
[International] Club Inventory
Records Available
General Type: Records
Physical Description: 6 cubic ft., 19 volumes
Inclusive Dates: 1930-1989
Donor: Unknown
DESCRIPTION
A qroup of women established the Altrusa Club on April 11,
1917 in Nashville, Tennessee, as the first women's classified
service club. The founders designed the orqanization as a "main
channel throuqh which women leaders in business and the professions
can work toqether as an effective service force to help solve
community and world problems and promote understandinq amonq all
people." Only one representative of a specific business or
profession could join the orqanization. The international
orqanization operates throuqh several committees to administer the
club's Founders Fund Vocational Aid and the Grants in Aid proqram.
In its lonq years of service to the community, the Beaumont Altrusa
Club has been involved in numerous philanthropic activities.
This collection is arranqed in the followinq series:
correspondence; reqular meetings and board of directors minutes;
orqanizational records; president's reports; yearbooks; Nineteenth
District material; scrapbooks; The Picayune; other publications;
the International Altrusan; photographs; ephemera. The researcher
will find the club minutes comprehensive and enliqhteninq,
providinq information on club activities and financial conditions.
The International Altrusan is the official publication of the
National Association of Altrusa Clubs of the United States. The
collection also contains several scrapbooks that recount annual
club activities throuqh newspaper clippings, photographs and
yearbooks.
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