Records, 1901-1990.

ArchivalResource

Records, 1901-1990.

Consists of extensive meeting minutes of its cabinet, advisory board, and board of directors with some gaps. Correspondence is very incomplete and primarily covers the Students' Army Training Corps (1918-1919) and the 1950s. Annual reports (which are incomplete) cover 1918/1919 and the 1950s through 1976. Financial records are also sketchy. "Report of the survey director to the survey committee of the board of directors of the North Dakota Agricultural College Young Men's Christian Association" by William Overholt (36 leaves) is included. Also includes several scrapbooks of clippings and photographs of Y activities, a 1917 solicitation notebook for a new building, and two issues of the newsletter The Y's bison.

1.8 linear ft.

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7294093

North Dakota State University Library

Related Entities

There are 7 Entities related to this resource.

Overholt, William.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67m26w3 (person)

Young Men's Christian Association (North Dakota Agricultural College)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pc8mh1 (corporateBody)

Young Men's Christian Association (North Dakota State University)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wh8880 (corporateBody)

Organized in 1901 as a recreation and study program. In 1916, a Y building fund was established. With financial assistance in the form of a matching grant from John D. Rockefeller, the building was constructed in 1916. Ray Sweetman, a professional secretary, was hired as membership increased. The YMCA building served as the campus social center until its destruction by a tornado in 1957. After that, the North Dakota Agricultural College Library and the South Engineering building served as YMCA h...

United States. Army. Students' Army Training Corps

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qg3s0t (corporateBody)

The establishment of Students' Army Training Corps units was authorized by the Selective Service Act of 1917. The Students' Army Training Corps utilized the facilities, equipment, and faculty of colleges and universities to select and train officer candidates and provide technical and vocational training during World War I. The unit at Oregon Agricutural College (OAC) formed in early 1918 and included officer trainees as well as draftees to be trained as toolmakers, foundrymen, machinists, auto ...

Young Men's Christian Associations of North America

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cp0vpf (corporateBody)

After several preliminary attempts, the Young Men's Christian Association (Y.M.C.A.) was established in Spokane Falls, Washington Territory on November 4, 1884. William Markham was its first secretary. The Association, combining interests in social, physical and spiritual welfare among men, grew rapidly in the rapidly expanding trade center of eastern Washington. Soon after 1900, attempts were made to raise funds for a permanent home with full facilities. A large new building was constructed at ...

North Dakota Agricultural College

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62r7ks1 (corporateBody)

North Dakota State University

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qc3v86 (corporateBody)