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Records of the service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega, established at Eau Claire in 1949. They organize social events at the university and their service activities support the American Red Cross, Special Olympics, and the Salvation Army, etc. Records include organization files, membership lists, anniversary materials, photographs, scrapbooks, and artifacts. Includes digital materials.

Summary Organizational records of the faculty organization American Association of University Professors (AAUP) UW-EC Chapter, founded in 1946, dedicated to promoting academic freedom and establishing standards for professional and institutional excellence in higher education. Collection includes meeting minutes, transcripts of some of the papers presented during the chapter’s early years, membership lists, correspondence, policy statements and press releases from the national organization, and...

Summary This collection comprises records of a labor union for faculty and academic staff at the University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire, The Association of University of Wisconsin Faculties (TAUWF). Records include governing documents, newsletters, meeting minutes, membership lists, questionnaires, and subject files for both the local chapter and the state organization. The local chapter addressed faculty concerns about tenure and promotion, faculty and academic staff salaries, and representation in...

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Booklet of founding documents, constitution and by-laws, for the Eau Claire Board of Trade, founded in 1879. It also includes a membership list. The Eau Claire Board of Trade sought to develop local resources, encourage business growth, and diversify economic activity in the city.

Summary Records of the Eau Claire Technical Society which was founded in 1946 as the Northwest Wisconsin Engineers but in 1952 changed its name to incorporate other related technical fields into the organization. The Society invited guest speakers or conducted tours of various manufacturing facilities during their monthly meetings. They also awarded a scholarship, beginning in 1956, to a University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire incoming freshman majoring in engineering. The records consist of minutes,...

Summary The Sons of Norway Løven Lodge No. 29 collection documents the activities of the Eau Claire lodge for District Five of Sons of Norway in the Eau Claire, Wisconsin, region, which was signed into charter in 1904. Its purpose was to create a mutual assistance society and to protect members of Sons of Norway and their families from the financial hardships experienced during times of sickness or death in the family. They expanded to include preservation of Norwegian heritage and culture. This...

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Membership and ladies’ auxiliary records of a fraternal and political organization of Union Army veterans’ descendants founded in 1881, The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW). The collection includes ladies’ auxiliary meeting minutes and membership records. The bulk of the camp’s records consist of membership records, but fragmentary correspondence and financial records may be found as well.

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Records of the Society of Participating Honors Students (SOPHS), formed in 1977 by Dean Valena H. Burke. SOPHS was officially inactivated after 2010. Includes history, initiation programs, membership lists, meeting minutes, telethon materials, photographs and artifacts. Includes digital materials.

Summary The plant that ultimately became the Uniroyal plant was founded in 1916 by R.B. Gillette as the Gillette Safety Tire Company. In 1940, The United States Rubber Company, later Uniroyal, Inc. purchased Gillette. The plant closed in 1991, following the purchase of Uniroyal Goodrich by Michelin et Cie. Collection contains newspaper articles, photographs, employee agreements and by-laws, some employee records, and a small collection of correspondence, photographs, and other writings by Sanford...

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Records of the UW-Eau Claire Academic Staff Committee, consisting of meeting minutes, correspondence, committee reports, governing documents, and subject files documenting the governance of academic staff at UW—Eau Claire, and the review of academic staff positions and salaries on both the UW—Eau Claire campus and the UW-System at large. The Academic Staff Committee was absorbed into the Faculty Senate, creating a combined University Senate, in 1987.