Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church : Augustana Lutheran Church Women. Convention Material, 1895, 1906-1960.

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Augustana Lutheran Church Women. Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church : Augustana Lutheran Church Women. Convention Material, 1895, 1906-1960.

Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church : Augustana Lutheran Church Women. Convention Material, 1895, 1906-1960.

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The records in this series comprise convention materials from Women's Missionary Society/Augustana Lutheran Church Women (WMS/ALCW) general conventions from 1895 and 1906-1960. The WMS/ALCW met at these conventions to elect officers, receive progress reports of the society's work, plan projects and programs for the coming year, revise and amend the constitution if needed, and take care of any other business matters needing the attention of the full society. The WMS/ALCW had annual conventions until 1956 when it switched to meeting biennially. The majority of the records are convention programs. These printed booklets list sessions, services, and other events occurring during the convention. Some of the early years' programs are written in Swedish. Over the years programs expanded to include the names of officers, executive committee members, standing committees' members, and convention delegates. The kinds of lists vary from year to year. Also included for certain years are convention pamphlets with resolutions for consideration, individual officer reports, new programs of work, In Memoriam tributes, and additional events taking place during the convention. Records for later convention years also include material supplied to delegates as part of their convention packets and material, including some correspondence, pertaining to WMS/ALCW convention planning and preparation. Not every convention is represented in this series. The following years have no convention information available in this series: 1893, 1894, 1896-1905, 1909-1910, and 1944. There is a bound volume in box 2 that contains convention programs for 1906-1907, 1914-1920, 1926-1934, 1936-1938, and 1943. Convention information, other than minutes, pertaining to 1909-1910, and 1944 is found in the WMS/ALCW publication Mission Tidings, AUG 40/8/3/2. The convention program for 1927 contains a misprint. It should read the 36th Annual Convention. In 1945 the War Committee denied the WMS a permit to hold its annual convention. As an alternative it held an inspirational meeting on June 6-8, in Rock Island and Moline, Illinois. In 1950 the name of the society changed to Women's Missionary Society. The 1960 convention program makes reference to being the second biennial convention, but in actuality it was the third. Records are arranged chronologically. For convention proceedings, see AUG 40/4/1.

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