RG-AL: Alumni Office
Series 3: Class Materials

 

Since 1949 the Alumni Association has supported the class agent plan, whereby each class receives regular informal newsletters compiled and written by a volunteer class member. Prior to 1949 class officers kept in touch with their classmates, kept address files, and some classes printed class letters (see Series 3.2).

SERIES 3.1:[class year] Class agent materials
Class agent materials are generally from 1949 on and are arranged by class year. Most are letters from agents with news of classmates, duplicated and distributed by the Alumni Office. Arranged in reverse chronological order within folders.

Quantity: ca. 6 linear ft.

Contents:
Class of 1889, letters dated 1949-54;
1890, dated 1949-52; 1891, dated 1949-61; 1892, dated 1949-61; 1893, dated 1949-62; 1894, dated 1949-57; 1895, dated 1949-55; 1896, dated 1949-59; 1897, dated 1848-54; 1898, dated 1849-59; 1899, dated 1949-58; 1900, dated 1948-62; 1901, dated 1949-64; 1902, dated 1949-68; 1903, dated 1949-63; 1904, dated 1951-64; 1905, dated 1951-69; 1906, dated 1950-67; 1907, dated 1950-67; 1908, dated 1948-77; 1909, dated 1949-77; 1910, dated 1949-76; 1911, dated 1949-82; 1912, dated 1954-74; 1913, dated 1949-81 (see also details below of additional papers);
1914, dated 1950-84; 1915, dated 1949-76; 1916, dated 1949-76, (see also details below of additional papers);
1917, dated 1950-82; 1918, dated 1949-84; 1919, dated 1949-76; 1925, dated 1971-72.Ser.3.1:1913 1958 reunion autobiographical forms and individual photographs; some clippings. (Boxes 4 & 5)

Ser.3.1:1916 Class agents Murray Welch and Ivl Walling Welton. 1953-68.
Quantity: 3 archives boxes.
Boxes 7 & 8:
Class letters; original letters, many are Christmas correspondence, 1953-68.

Box 9:
Murray Welch "History of Men's Glee Club Tour to the Pacific Northwest 1915-16" (another copy in 45.3/pGm13).
Women's Glee Club 50th Anniversary, 1957. Includes scores. Other copies in 45.3/pGw6.
Golden Anniversary Record, 1966. Manuscript copy, original letters from class members, post-publication correspondence. Printed copies filed in 83.3/P2 and also RG-Alum, Ser.3.4.
Card file of class member addresses and biographical notes.
“Limericks and poems.” 1967-69 Class of 1916 scrapbooks, compiled by Ivl Walling Welton. Clippings, programs of events, photographs.
vol. I: 1912-64
vol. II: 1964-66
Provenance: Ivl Welton.


Ser.3.1:1928

Quantity: Several folders.

Photographs and clippings from a reunion display, possibly the fiftieth in 1978. Because of the condition of the display, 3 large posterboards of photos have been left intact and are filed in oversize #1 drawer; other photos and clippings were disassembled and are in 4 folders shelved with the other Alumni record group papers.
Provenance: unknown.

Ser.3.1:1934
Quantity: 2 archives boxes, 1 microfilm box, 1 large scrapbook
Reunions (1964, 1975, 1979?) correspondence.
Correspondence (Advisory Council), 1961.
Correspondence, 1977-84.
Fran James? materials from college years.
Photographs, 1930s.
Convocation, 1964 (incl. photographs)
Photographs of reunions.
Scrapbook pages: ?Can you recognize them??
Scrapbook pages arranged by name (Bare, Canning, Cooper,
Erwin, Graham)
Scrapbook pages (1959-82)
Large scrapbook (1984-89)
Microfilm box with miniature dance programs, invitations, etc.
Provenance: Fran James. Received from Alumni Office, Summer 1996.

Ser.3.1:1936
Class agent letters 1956-92.
Reunion papers for 1961, 66, 71, 86. Includes correspondence, memos.
Misc. correspondence and clippings 1956-85.
College closing of 1970: correspondence summer of 1970.
Photograph albums (4): Some photos from 1932-36; most are reunion photos, photos of classmates and their families.
Provenance: Bertha West Putnam
Quantity: 2 archives boxes

Ser.3.1:1939
Scrapbooks (2) of photographs and clippings, ca. 1969-79.
Photographs of New Students 1935 and of 1979 reunion .
Provenance: Alice Meacham Williams.

Ser.3.1:1941
Class letters, 1981-97
Class roster
50th reunion, 1991
Reunion pictures
Alumni award, 1991
Miscellaneous
Provenance: Uncertain; perhaps Isabella Plum.

Ser.3.1:1947
50th Reunion program, May 1997.
Provenance: Lonabelle "Kappie" Spencer

Ser.3.1:1952
Class agent letters 1952-82.
Scrapbook pages: 1. 1948-52; 2. 1963-84, photos of classmates and their families (mostly the latter), clippings.
Provenance: Nancy Postma.

Ser.3.1:1962
25th reunion video (1987)

Ser.3.1:1970
1990 reunion. Peace Grove dedication: videocassette, clippings.

Series 3.2:[class year] Class letters
Class letters, most prior to 1920, from classmates to the class secretary. Some are the original letters. Most were compiled and edited by the secretary, printed as "annual letters" and distributed in booklet form. In the following list assume the item is in published booklet format unless indicated TLS (typewritten letter signed), ALS (autograph letter signed), ADS (autograph document signed). Class year is in the first column; dates letters written or published are in the second column.

Quantity: 3 archives boxes

Class folder Contents:
1879 1937-40 (ALS, TLS). Will Noyes, class agent.
1882 1883-1912. Published annually; incomplete set; 30th reunion 1912.
1883 History of the Class, 1888; reunion 1913.
1884 Reunion 1914.
1887 1888-1920. Published annually. Some include photographs.
1889 1894
1891 1892-97 (published annually; incomplete set), 1916, '36, '41, '49 (1936-41 are typewritten documents by class secretary, W. F. Brewer)
1892 1893-94, 1942. Score of class song. C. C. Hunt, "Iowa College 1892" for 50th reunion in 1942.
1893 1913 reunion; some correspondence (ALS & TLS) from ca. 1937.
1894 T. O. Douglass Jr. "History of the class of 1894" (clipping, 1934); 1 letter 1904.
1895 1896
1896 1897
1897 1898, 99
1899 1939 reunion
1900 1901
1901 1902
1902 1903-08, 1911-12.
1904 1906, '18, '23; minutes of class meetings 1915-61; clippings, photos.
1905 1910, '12; 1955 reunion biographical sheets and photos (ADS); group photos from various reunions.
1906 1907-10, '13
1907 1908-11, '13, '62.
1908 1909-13, '15, '68.
1909 1910
1910 ALS, TLS 1965-66
1911 1913, '14, '21
1913 1943; 1963 reunion group photo
1914 1934
1916 1917, '18
1918 1922, '43
1934 1974 reunion
1942 1967 reunion; 1938 Freshman class photo.

Series 3.3 Reunion directories/autobiographies.

Autobiographical information which class members recorded on forms distributed by the Alumni Office and printed in booklet form for reunion classes.

Arranged by class year (not by reunion year). Class of 1893- . Except for the 1913 reunion of the Class of 1893 (Souvenir: Reunion of '93 Grinnell) and the 1966 reunion of the Class of 1916 (Golden Anniversary Record of the Class of 1916), these booklets have been compiled since about the reunion of 1988.

Quantity: ca. 2 linear ft.

[These photographs were part of a display, probably for the 50th reunion of the class of 1928 in 1978. Because of their condition several of the posterboards were disassembled, labels copied on the verso of the photos, and shelved in folders with other papers in the Archives record group (RG-Alum/Ser.3.1:1928). Three posterboards are intact and filed in the oversize #1 file drawer (RG-Alumn/Ser.3.1.1928)]