Finding aid: RG 181 - Springfield College Women's Athletic Association Records

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Title:
Finding aid: RG 181 - Springfield College Women's Athletic Association Records
Description:
The Women’s Athletics Association Records collection includes constitutions, memorandums, handbooks, handwritten notes, manager reports, meeting minutes, and other miscellaneous documents that details the Women’s Athletics Association (WAA), later known as the Women’s Recreation Association (WRA), activities from 1952 to 1977. The organization primarily focused on managing club and intramural sports available to women through various events, games, and tournaments. The materials concerning managerial reports for sports, such as archery, badminton, basketball, field hockey, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, and volleyball, were issued from 1954 to 1968. These reports include schedules for games, lists of the types of tournaments, and the points scored and rules. Also included for most years are lists of the names of participants as a part of the four official teams: Green Knights, Golden Hearts, Red Dragons, and Blue Falcons. The materials concerning meeting minutes were recorded from 1953 to 1973, with executive board meeting notes being mostly typed, though some are handwritten. Within the WRA Chairman and the WRA Secretary folders is a Board of Representative Handbook for 1966-1967 and 1966-1968, respectively. These materials show how the WAA/WRA invested time in continuing the interest in women’s sports on campus through events. One event included in this collection is the “WRA Banquets,” held by the Women’s Recreation Association from 1969-1977. These banquets recognized the various intramurals and “All-Star” teams with trophies and presentations of the Massasoit Award. There is also a list of recipients for the Massasoit Award from 1953 to 1974. Related material includes flyers, official invitations, programs, and others. In addition, there is a folder from Dorothy Brown containing materials produced between 1970-1973. Within the folder, the material is divided into five sections by tab dividers: “Current,” “Minutes,” a blank tab, “Constitution,” and “N.E.A.R.F.C.W” (Northeast Athletic & Recreation Federation of College Women). Outside of these sections, in the beginning, is documents, including a fall term schedule for intramural games, a flyer, handwritten notes, revised meeting minutes, and the WRA constitution. There is also scrapbook that contains newsclippings and photographs of activities thought to be between 1953 and 1956, including articles on Paula Deubel and materials on the Athletic Federation of College Women conference held in 1954. For information on the Women's Athletic/Recreation Association see: https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/corporate_entities/160
Creator:
Springfield College
Creator:
Monseau, Jeffrey
Date:
July 2022
Format:
Documents
Location:
Springfield College Archives and Special Collections
Collection (local):
College Archives Digital Collections
Subjects:
Springfield College
Springfield College--Clubs
Springfield College--Sports
Springfield College--Sports--Women
Women's Athletic Association
Women's Recreation Association
Finding Aids
Clubs
Places:
Massachusetts > Hampden (county) > Springfield
Link to Item:
http://cdm16122.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15370coll2/id/27535
Terms of Use:
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Publisher:
Springfield College
Language:
English
Identifier:
39_122_6_252_2022-7-19_75534571-667817420