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Associated Women Students (AWS) Collection
MS-0449
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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & University Archives
Title: Associated Women Students (AWS) Collection
Creator:
Associated Women Students
Identifier/Call Number: MS-0449
Physical Description:
0.92 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1936-1977
Date (bulk): 1961-1973
Language of Material:
English
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The
Associated Women Students Collection documents the growth and development of AWS at San Diego State, as well as many of the activities and lectures it organized
on campus. Also documented are some of the controversies involving women on campus in the early 1970s. The collection includes
two scrapbooks, correspondence, meeting minutes, flyers, and budget information, as well as copies of the ever-changing AWS
constitution.
The scrapbooks in the collection date from 1965-1967 and from 1937-1965. The 1965-67 scrapbook includes photographs of AWS
Council representatives, documentation of the State AWS Convention, press clippings on annual elections, lectures, AWS's organization
of All-Women's Week, its role in Freshman Orientation, the AWS Retreat, and issues of the AWS Newsletter. The 1937-65 scrapbook
includes copies of the AWS Handbook, the AWS Forecast newsletter, photographs of officers, and press clippings on AWS-sponsored
events across campus, including the Frosh Orientation Party, the Femme Fashion Show, the Best-Dressed Co-Ed competition, Catch-a-Man
Week, the annual award for AWS Woman of Achievement, AWS Week, and John F. Kennedy's visit to campus in 1963. The majority
of this book documents 1961-1965, with a few scattered materials at the back dating from 1937 to the 1960s.
This collection is open for research.
The copyright interests in some of these materials have been transferred to or belong to San Diego State University. The nature
of historical archival and manuscript collections means that copyright status may be difficult or even impossible to determine.
Copyright resides with the creators of materials contained in the collection or their heirs. Requests for permission to publish
must be submitted to the Head of Special Collections, San Diego State University, Library and Information Access. When granted,
permission is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder(s), which must also be obtained in order to publish. Materials from our collections are
made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the
materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials.
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Some materials in this collection were separated from the Associated Students Records (MS-0380), and others are from private
donations.
Identification of item, folder title, box number, Associated Womens Students Collection, Special Collections and University
Archives, San Diego State University Library.
San Diego State Teacher's College established the Associated Women Students (AWS) in May of 1922, after three students attended
the Intercollegiate Association of Women Students by invitation the previous March. The organization's original goals included
promoting education among women, organizing women on campus, and educating the public on women's suffrage rights. AWS's goals
changed numerous times throughout its existence, to those aimed at promoting "friendship and cooperation among members" and
participating "in matters of student interest," in the 1950s, to acting as a "coordinating force for the women students of
San Diego State," providing leadership for all women on campus, and promoting growth in cultural, social, service, and educational
areas by the early 1970s. AWS accomplished its goals through a series of special events, awards, lecture series, and other
activities for campus women. Members included all registered women students at San Diego State.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Organizational Records
San Diego State University. Associated Women Students.
San Diego State University--Students