Biology Club Records (RG 109)
1915-1951
0.01 cubic feet and 1 reel of microfilm (42 feet)
Scope and Content Note
The Biology Club Records consist of five series: Series I contains membership lists; Series II contains treasurer's reports, Series III contains minutes and correspondence; Series IV consists of constitutions; and Series V contains notices of meetings. The series designations as targets shown on the microfilm are indicated in brackets on the inventory.
Form of Materials
This microfilm reel consist of two short reels (filmed in 1967) that were spliced together in 1999.
Historical Note
The Biology Club (also called the Biological Club) was formed in 1915 and was a resurrection of an earlier Biological Club. The club membership was open to all students who were enrolled in botany, zoology or entomology classes at the college, and to staff members of the Oregon Agricultural College, or the Agricultural Experiment Station. In 1921 the constitution was amended to read "men only" for members, a restriction that continued until at least 1948. Some women expressed interest in joining as early as 1936, but the suggestion was tabled without any further discussion.
The club held monthly meetings that usually included a speaker who gave a talk on a subject related to biology. In most years the club went on a picnic and/or a field day in May for their final meeting of the school year. In 1948, the invitation and minutes noted that while this event was for men only, 1948 would probably be the last year for that restriction. The club apparently ceased to exist in 1951. In 1997 a new Biology Club was formed at OSU, one that is open to both men and women.
Related Materials
The Archives holdings include the records of many other faculty and student organizations as institutional records and manuscript collections.
Inventory
(reel 1)
- I. Membership lists, 1949-1950 [Series 1]
- II. Treasurer's reports, 1942-1947 [Series 2]
- III. Minutes and correspondence, 1915-1951
- Minutes, 1915-1935 [Series 1, Subseries 1]
- Correspondence and minutes, 1915-1951 [Series 1, Subseries 2]
- II. Treasurer's reports, 1925-1940 [Series 2]
- IV. Constitutions, 1915 and 1921 [Series 3]
(box 1)
- Constitution, 1921
(reel 1, continued)
- I. Membership lists, 1938-1943 [Series 4]
- V. Notices of meetings, 1925-1940, and n.d. [Series 5]
