RIT Student Association records, 1923-1978.

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RIT Student Association records, 1923-1978.

RIT Student Association records contains minutes, correspondence, financial reports, budgets, events, and publications. RIT Student Association records contain minutes, correspondence, publications, and financial reports. There are 10 bound volumes containing: Minutes for Student Council and Student Senate, 1946-1967 (4 volumes); Minutes for Student Association, Students Cooperative, and Student Senate, 1972-1973 (1 volume); Student Association President and Vice-President correspondence, 1968-1970 (4 volumes); and Student Association financial reports, 1923-1968 (1 volume). Most of the collection is comprised of binders, 30 total: Student Association constitutions, 1959-1970 (3 binders); Student Association records, 1949-1952. Includes budgets, constitutions, councils, correspondence, events (2 volumes); Presidential correspondence, incoming and outgoing, 1965-1966 (2 volumes); Treasurer's reports, circa 1940-1964 (7 volumes).; Budgets, 1965-1968 (3 volumes); Financial statements and reports, 1964-1968 (8 volumes); Secretary of Internal Affairs report, 1971 (1 volume); Students Cooperative, 1971-1972 (2 volumes); Receipts, 1970 (1 volume); and Organizational brochure, 1964 (1 volume). This collection is currently unprocessed. Materials in binders and bound volumes are arranged chronologically. However, boxed materials are a mixture of Student Association and Student Government records, likely reflecting the overlapping nature of the organizations. Unprocessed boxed records include publications, elections, budgetary matters, and events.

3.0 linear feet (1 document box, 10 volumes, 30 binders)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8176318

RIT Library, Wallace Library

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Rochester Institute of Technology. Student Association

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