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Church Programing Correspondence 1985-1999

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 31

Scope and Content

From the Collection: The Administration Series is arranged in chronological order by sub series. The Board meeting minutes and Annual meeting minutes contain information of the daily operations of the church, programing, funding, budgeting, and the churches membership progress. The board meeting minutes 1981- 2012 is the most complete. Committee reports include discussions documents on church programming and progress. The Church Directory spans the years of 1952-2018. The Financial records contain budgets records and fundraising. The sub series Bylaws presents the original church bylaws submitted in 1952 and amendments. The building and planning sub series holds church building and expansion records, construction, and planning manuals.

The Public Relations Series is arranged alphabetically by sub series. The collection contains advertisement proposals for the Forum, and Prairie Public radio, a cassette tape of the radio ad can be found in the Artifact Series. The sub series Public Out Reach contains both national and local Unitarian Universalist fellowship information that would have been presented to the public to promote membership.

The Church Programming is arranged by progression of planning. The collection includes correspondence from the programming coordinators Millie Truemann and Carolyn Monzigo to potential campaign speaker. Carolyn’s notebook containing her notes about programming and board meetings can also be found in this file. This collection also includes Membership program preference surveys, program coordinator reports, and long-standing fellowship campaigns. The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee file contains a U.U.S.C. recruitment button and publications.

The Church Service Series is arranged chronologically. The collections contain Newsletters from national and local Unitarian sources, Sunday Bulletins, sermons, and Reverend Lucy Hitchcock writings. Reverend Lucy Hitchcock was a minister for the church who left the congregation in 1986. In this file are writings by the reverend Lucy, correspondence, and a homemade wood puzzle given to Lucy by members of the congregation.

The Milestones Series contains 50th Birthday and centennial celebration of the Churches founding, Award nominations forms, Awards, Obituaries/Memorials, and newspaper clippings. The subs series titled Church History contains the churches Historical society manual, collection of oral histories from past church patrons, and written church history. Additionally, the file contains photocopies of photos of Ruth T. Haynes Baker. Ruth was one of the church members who was in elementary school in New York in 1928. Ruth was an important member of the Unitarian Universalist church and had the ambition to share a part of her story.

The Artifact Series contains Membership signature book 1952-2018, an appreciation Plaque from the food pantry. There is a search committee minister catalog used educate prospective reverends about the church. One cassette tape with Prairie Radio Ad, and two videotapes of the 50th Birthday celebration.

The Oversized Series consists of architectural drawings of the church building addition designed by Foss Architects in 2003 and a poster from the 50th Birthday celebration in 2002.

Dates

  • Majority of material found within 1895-2020

Access

The collection is open under the rules and regulations of the NDSU Archives.

Extent

From the Collection: 5.5 Linear Feet (5.5linear feet.)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Repository Details

Part of the Institute for Regional Studies Repository

Contact:
West Building N
3551 7th Avenue North
Fargo North Dakota 58102 United States