Women in Communications, inc. records, 1918-2001.

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Women in Communications, inc. records, 1918-2001.

The collection includes information on WIC activities from 1918 to 1976 including career conferences, the Equal Rights Amendment, the Jacob Scher Awards, Ladies of the Press breakfasts, minority recruitment conferences, the National Journalistic Register, scholarships and service projects, student chapters at Northwestern University, the Women's Advertising Club of Chicago, the national fraternity, seminars on leadership development, and various programs including Men, Women, and the Media, Get Outside Yourself, Career Conference, Adopt-a-School, the Wayward Project, Youth Communication, and the Education Foundation. Materials include annual and auditor's reports, board of directors and regular meeting minutes, budgets, committee minutes, directories, registration forms, scholarship applications, invitations, member materials, mission statement, incorporation, constitution and by-laws papers, correspondence, convention proceedings, president and treasurer's kits, The Matrix, newsletters, newspaper clippings, photographs, slides, cassette tapes, a video, and scrapbooks.

31.25 linear ft.

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Association for Women in Communications. Chicago Chapter.

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Women in Communications, Inc. (WIC) is the Chicago chapter of Theta Sigma Phi, a national professional club for women in journalism founded in 1909. The Chicago alumnae chapter of charter members was established in 1919. Originally, membership was limited to those who had joined during college but membership widened within a few years to include those working in journalism. Consequently, the Chicago chapter charter was not granted until 1941 when the Theta Sigma Phi admitted non-collegiate chapt...

Theta Sigma Phi

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Women in Communications, inc. Chicago Chapter.

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