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Record Group: 22 C
Record Sub-Group: 9
Records Title: UMC; Student Life and Activities; Honor Societies and Fraternities-Sororities
Dates: 1897-1993
Volume: 1 cubic foot, 1.25 linear feet

Scope and Content Note

This Record Sub-Group contains records of student Honor Societies that have established chapters on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus. Included in this Sub-Group are materials such as oral histories, correspondence, memos, reports, forms, announcements, by-laws, constitutions, yearbooks, alumni directories, and biographical sketches of Honor Society members.

Series Descriptions:

Series 1. - C:22/4/1 (A78-60; A79-32)
This Series contains oral history tapes containing descriptions of the founding and early years of the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Library and Informational Science Honor Society, Phi Mu, Psi Chapter. Among the speakers is Ralph Parker, first Dean of the MU School of Library and Informational Science.
(6 cassette tapes, B23, 4, 6)

Series 2. - C:22/4/2 (A90-69)
This Series contains records relating to the MU chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Pi Zeta (Social Science Honor Society), Mystical Seven, QEBH, Kappa Tau Alpha, Blue Key (Women's Music Honor Society), Alpha Omega Alpha (Medical Honor Society) and Sigma Alpha Iota Honor Societies (ca. 1897--) plus Tap Day. Included in this Series are correspondence, memos, reports, forms, announcements, by-laws, constitutions, yearbooks, alumni directories, and biographical sketches of honor society members.
(2/3 c.f., 119, 1)

Series 3. - C:22/7/5 (A91-65)
This Series contains records of the MU chapter of Alpha Phi Omega, a national service fraternity. Included in this series are correspondence files and records relating to student loans, scholarships, the "Buy a Professor," auction, the annual "Ugly Man Contest," the fraternity by-laws, and lists of chapter officers.
(1/6 c.f., 133, 4)

Series 4. - C:22/7/7 (A97-2)
This Series contains a brief, typewritten history of Gamma Alpha, the graduate scientific fraternity, by LeVeta Ann Phillips Anderson. The period covered spans the years 1914-1993.
(1 Env., B3A, C1, 5)

Series 5. - C:22/18/1 and C:22/18/1a (A84-58)
This Series contains minutes of meetings, membership lists, organization schedules, and a Mortar Board scrapbook. The scrapbook contains pictures of Mortar Board members, newspaper clippings, photographs of "Tap Day," and guest signatures collected at Mortar Board functions.
(1/6 c.f. and 1 Pkg., B3A, C2, 1; 1 MFR, 703, MFC)
Note to Researcher: Series Five also contains a microfilmed copy of the Mortar Board scrapbook described above (ca. 1954-1983).

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