New Jersey, United States

Scope and Contents Documents concerning weekend area conferences of YWCA of the U.S.A. Business and Professional Women in Eastern and Western New York, New Jersey and Northern and Southern New England. Weekend conferences are held between regional conferences to bring together Business and Professional clubs from a state or smaller region and connect on current issues and program. Minutes, reports, and newsletters give an overview of the events and themes of the conferences. Weekend conferences unify Business...

Scope and Contents Printed materials from YWCA of the U.S.A. field and territorial committees. Printed materials include conference proceedings, annual reports, and various pamphlets. Materials are largely intended for distribution within the YWCA. Pamphlets provide justification for YWCA activity and educate the reader on the purpose of associations. Annual reports summarize the work of industrial, city, town and county, office, foreign, and executive secretaries. In addition, reports include association and...

Scope and Contents Correspondence concerning the eastern region Girl Reserve conferences. Girl Reserve, the YWCA club for adolescent girls, is an opportunity for girl to meet and to develop their spiritual, physical and intellectual lives through social activities, camps, leadership training and classes. Regional conferences bring together girls from different backgrounds and Girl Reserve clubs across a region to unite under common purpose, discuss matters important to them in their daily lives and personal...

Scope and Contents Documents concerning the eastern region Girl Reserve conferences for 1945. Girl Reserve, the YWCA club for adolescent girls, is an opportunity for girl to meet and to develop their spiritual, physical and intellectual lives through social activities, camps, leadership training and classes. Regional conferences bring together girls from different backgrounds and Girl Reserve clubs across a region to unite under common purpose, discuss matters important to them in their daily lives and...

Scope and Contents Report of a group meeting with YMCA staff followed by documents concerning the program, administration and development of associations in Atlantic County and Bayonne, New Jersey and correspondence and reports from the Bergen-Passaic YWCA Council. Documents are arranged alphabetically by city or town with further form and topical designations on the microfilm under Atlantic County and Bayonne. The administration and development of the affiliated associations is documented in basic standards...

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Documents concerning the work of the YWCA of the U.S.A. and other social or welfare organizations in New Jersey. Included are documents concerning regional and statewide YWCA meetings and conferences, studies of social agencies, a study of minimun wage and labor issues, a conference on juvenile delinquency, and YMCA and YWCA camps.

Scope and Contents Minutes of meetings of the YWCA of the U.S.A. North Eastern Field Committee and its secretary's' reports. Reports come from field secretaries working with industrial, employed, rural, student, immigrant, missionary and city populations. In their reports, secretaries provide a narrative overview of their work including the status of established or emerging associations, challenges and successes of particular associations, need and recommendations and requests for assistance from the National...

Scope and Contents Minutes of meetings of the YWCA of the U.S.A. North Eastern Field Committee and reports from secretaries in the field. Field work committees work to unite local associations and assist in serving the united purpose of the YWCA of the U.S.A. Meetings of the field committee cover financial and personnel issues, plan camps and conferences and review secretary reports. Secretaries' reports summarize field visits, make recommendations, request resources from the National Board, assess the needs...

Scope and Contents Minutes and reports from the YWCA of the U.S.A. North Eastern Field committee covering New York, New Jersey, and New England. Meeting minutes concern committee business, resolutions, reports of new associations, acceptance of secretarial reports, organization, and planning of camps and conferences. Following meeting minutes are reports submitted by secretaries. These narrative reports give an overview of their work in the field and make suggestions and requests for future work. Field...

Scope and Contents Official programs and reports of YWCA of the U.S.A. state committees arranged alphabetically by state covering Indiana through West Virginia. Materials include convention and conference proceedings where the overall status of the state's associations may be discussed in addition to matters of finance, membership statistics, and organizational management and governance. Summaries of addresses and discussions serve to provide an overview of the focus of the associations. Materials may also...

Scope and Contents Documents concerning the Middle Atlantic regional council of the National Student YWCA and Student Christian Movement. The regional council acts as a body between the National Student YWCA and national student movement organizations and the local student associations. Council meetings discuss the regional emphases and programming, make recommendations and resolutions, hear updates and reports from local student associations and events and discuss leadership and staff needs. The council's...

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Newsletters from the Middle Atlantic region of the National Student YWCA and Student Christian Movement. The Middle Atlantic region is also referred to as the Eagles Mere region in the YWCA of the U.S.A. 

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Newsletters from the Middle Atlantic region of the National Student YWCA and Student Christian Movement. The Middle Atlantic region is also referred to as the Eagles Mere region in the YWCA of the U.S.A. 

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Documents concerning National Student YWCA middle Atlantic region (Eagles Mere) participating membership and association standards, purpose and structure, and regional assemblies. 

Scope and Contents Reports from the Middle Atlantic, or Eagles Mere, region of the National Student YWCA. Monthly reports to the National Student Council are submitted using standard forms and collect information concerning meetings attended, campuses visited, materials prepared, regional developments, how the secretary's day were divided and interviews conducted. Visitation reports are narrative accounts of a regional secretary's visit to one or several campuses. The reports describe the status of the...

Scope and Contents Documents concerning the Middle Atlantic, or Eagles Mere, region of the National Student YWCA. Presidents' reports, program handbooks and association guides concern the structure and organization of the regional and national student organizations, program suggestions and planning guidelines, fundraising and finance guidelines and standards of affiliation. Other documents include summer program pamphlets handbooks, secretary's reports, meeting and conference minutes and proceedings and a...

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Annual reports from the middle Atlantic, or Eagles Mere, region of the National Student YWCA and Student Christian Movement. Annual reports may include supporting materials such as programs, pamphlets, data and correspondence in addition to their analysis and narrative report.

Scope and Contents Minutes and reports of the Middle Atlantic region National Student YWCA advisory committee and documents concerning two regional special projects. Advisory committee minutes and reports concern regional development, program and project updates and conference updates. The two student projects focus on a specific regional problem and offer students opportunities to work within those communities, develop community organizing skills and practice leadership. "Opportunity in Appalachia" is a "self...

Scope and Contents Minutes, reports, correspondence and notes concerning the local situation faced by Japanese Americans in the United States. Documents are grouped by the following locations: California, Colorado, Minnesota, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Washington. Documents describe the challenges faced by Japanese Americans in each area, the persecution they may face and special projects, programs and association practices to assist the Japanese American and improve relationships in the...

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Photographs of YWCA hostess house buildings, interiors, and leisure activities at Camp Dix, New Jersey. Photographs include images of the separate hostess house for the African American soldiers.

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Photographs of industrial housing and recreation programs at Players' House in Camp Dix, and the Industrial War Service Center in Bloomfield, New Jersey. Players' House provided housing and home-like accommodations for actresses. The Industrial War Service Center in Bloomfield served women employed in nearby industry during the war providing leisure and food service as part of their program.

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Photographs of women war workers at Internatioanl Fuse and Arms Company in Bloomfield, and Newark shipyards.