Fargo Retired Teachers Association Records

Collection

Identifier: Mss 95

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Fargo Retired Teachers Association Records document the activities and members of the association. A historical booklet in the Finding aid and History file contains a history of the association, along with highlights of the minutes, 1955-1984; scholarship winners; officers from 1955-1985; and lists of deceased and current members. The records have been organized into five series: Constitutions, Meeting Minutes, Newsletters, Scrapbooks, and Subject Files. The Meeting Minutes Series contains the minutes of its monthly meetings from September 1959 to June 1983. The Newsletter Series contains newsletters from both the North Dakota Retired Teachers Association and the Fargo Retired Teachers Association. Other issues are included in the Scrapbook Series. The Subject Files Series consists of two folders containing biographical information on two members, Dr. Ethel Andrus and Sadie Walker. The Scrapbook Series which cover from September 1955 to 1985, besides newsletters, contains articles, announcements and pictures on the association and its members. The 1966-1969 scrapbook contains material on its Jennie McCloud Johnson Scholarship and the 1970-1980 scrapbook on the Signe Hanson Scholarship.

Dates

1955-1990

Creator

Fargo Retired Teachers Association. (Organization)

Access

The collection is open under the rules and regulations of the Institute.

Copyrights

The Institute owns the copyrights.

History

The Fargo Retired Teachers Club began September 1955 as a social club of women teachers, retired from the Fargo School System. The idea came from Jennie McCloud Johnson. A constitution was drawn up and adopted in September 1960. As retired teachers' associations developed throughout the nation, North Dakota organized a state association through the efforts of Miss Signe Hanson and other state leaders. The Fargo group then became affiliated with the state association. In 1965-1966 the constitution was updated, and a new one adopted in May 1966. The club's name was then changed to the Fargo Retired Teachers Association. Membership was extended to anyone who was 55 years or older who at sometime had been employed as a teacher in the schools of the nation at any educational level.