Guide to the Women's Community Center Records, 1977-1984
Last Updated
Overview of the Collection
Repository:
Special Collections & Archives
McIntyre Library
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
P.O. Box 4004
105 Garfield Ave.
Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004
(715)-836-2739
https://library.uwec.edu/archives/
Reference Code: USGZE UHC357
Accession Number: 15-041
Collection Number: University Historical Collection 357
Creator: Women’s Community Center Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Title: Women’s Community Center Records, 1977-1984
Dates: 1977-1984
Quantity: 1.2 linear feet (3 archives boxes)
Location of Collection: A9/2d
Languages: Collection materials are in English.
Summary: A compilation of records from the Women’s Community Center of Eau Claire, Wisconsin dating from 1977-1984. The collection documents the center’s collaboration efforts within the community and UWEC in its attempts to raise funding and awareness for abused women and children within the community. The collection holds documents showing the creation of the center, its bylaws, events, newspaper clippings, surveys, expense books, meeting minutes, and the dissolution of the center. There is a bound book with financial records in it as well as checkbook balance logs.
Biographical/Historical Note
The Women’s Community Center officially became incorporated on September 8, 1976. The center was created with the desire of bringing awareness to abused women and children within the community and allow women to be the best that they could be. Refuge houses were created in an effort to provide a safe haven for women and their children to live while they got resituated and to a place where they could move out on their own. The Women’s Community Center had a few permanent positions that dealt with operations of the facility, and many more that were on a voluntary basis. By 1978 there was an estimated 101 women and their children or 68 families that were using the refuge services offered by the center. In an effort to fund the Women’s Community Center members sold subscriptions to a monthly newsletter and partnered with the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire for various fundraisers. In 1988 the doors were closed on the Women’s Community Center due to lack of funding, but other places in the community such as the Bolton Refuge House continue their work today.
Content Description
The collection holds important information concerning the Eau Claire community in relation to the Women’s Community Center during the nineteen seventies and eighties regarding the abuse of women and children. It retains records detailing information on the operations of the Women’s Community Center and their relationship with other groups, centers, and individuals such as physician consults. The documents within the collection show the strides made by the center to bring awareness to their efforts within the community. Examples of these documents are: government forms, legal documentation, physician surveys, parent’s anonymous information, meeting notes, other organization contacts, etc.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information: Donated to the Special Collections Department, William D. McIntyre Library, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire by Marian Ritland, 2014.
Access Restrictions: Collection is open to the public.
Use Restrictions: Researchers are responsible for using in accordance with 17 U.S.C. Copyright not owned by the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Preferred Citation: Women’s Community Center Records, 1977-1984. UHC357. Special Collections & Archives. McIntyre Library. University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire. Eau Claire, WI.
Processing Note: Processed by Danica Seyfert in March 2015
Arrangement: By series.
OCLC #: 910938297
Subjects
Personal Names: Aaker, Joyce; Biebelhausen, Joan; Desprez, Norma; Knopp, Sharon; Rindfleisch, Phyllis; Ritland, Marian
Corporate Names: Women’s Community Center
Subject Terms: Services for-abused women-children and families-refuge house- community center-women’s center-Eau Claire-University of Eau Claire-1970s-1980s-domestic abuse-crisis center-rape shelter
Geographical Terms: Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Detailed List of Contents
Series 1: Subject Files
Collection of records, media exposure, financial information, and various forms of communication between other groups or businesses in the region that dealt with the Women’s Community Center of Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
Dates: 1974-1984, bulk 1977-1978
Extent: 1.2 linear feet (3 archives boxes)
Container
Contents
Dates
Box/Folder
1/1
Pledge Project
1978
Box/Folder
1/2
Physician’s Survey
1978
Box/Folder
1/3
Physician’s Survey—Complete
1978
Box/Folder
1/4
Parents Anonymous
N.D.
Box/Folder
1/5
Trademark
1978
Box/Folder
1/5
Women’s Organizations
1978
Box/Folder
1/7
The Working Woman—Women in the Workforce
1973-1977
Box/Folder
1/8
Abused Women
1976-1977
Box/Folder
1/9
Media Exposure
1976-1978
Box/Folder
1/10
Intake Evaluations—Sheets Regarding the Refuge
1978
Box/Folder
1/11
Committee Minutes
1978
Box/Folder
1/12
Church Project
1978
Box/Folder
1/13
Food Pantry
1978
Box/Folder
1/14
Fundraising
1977-1978
Box/Folder
1/15
High School Drop-In
1974-1977
Box/Folder
1/16
File Check-out
1976-1983
Box/Folder
1/17
Finance Committee
1978-1979
Box/Folder
1/18
Refuge House Inc. Papers & Other Correspondence
1977
Box/Folder
1/19
Meeting Minutes
1978
Box/Folder
2/1
Meetings Attendance—General Membership
1977-1978
Box/Folder
2/2
Advisory Board
1977
Box/Folder
2/3
Correspondence—CETA, Grants, etc.
1976-1977
Box/Folder
2/4
History
1976
Box/Folder
2/5
Interorganization Correspondence
1977-1978
Box/Folder
2/6
Surveys—Complete
N.D.
Box/Folder
2/7
Bylaws (WCC)
1978
Box/Folder
2/8
Battery
N.D.
Box/Folder
2/9
Incorporation Papers
1976-1985
Box/Folder
2/10
CETA
N.D.
Box/Folder
2/11
Correspondence IN
1977-1978
Box/Folder
2/12
Correspondence OUT
1977-1978
Box/Folder
2/13
Daycare
N.D.
Box/Folder
2/14
Financial Records—Billing Statements, Expense Logs
1976-1979
Box/Folder
2/15
Financial Records Book—Expense Logs
1978
Box/Folder
2/16
Grant Agencies
1977-1978
Box/Folder
2/17
HOD Information
1974-1978
Box/Folder
2/18
Income Maintenance
1977
Box/Folder
3/1
Insurance Policy
1977-1979
Box/Folder
3/2
Interview Sheets—Question Guide
N.D.
Box/Folder
3/3
Judicare Form Letters
N.D.
Box/Folder
3/4
Lease
1977-1979
Box/Folder
3/5
Letters of Support
1977
Box/Folder
3/6
Miscellaneous Correspondence
1978
Box/Folder
3/7
Personnel
1976-1977
Box/Folder
3/8
Program Participation
N.D.
Box/Folder
3/9
Program Summaries
N.D.
Box/Folder
3/10
Resumes
1977-1978
Box/Folder
3/11
Research Project
N.D.
Box/Folder
3/12
Seeing Myself in Print Attendance Records
1977
Box/Folder
3/13
Tenant Laws
N.D.
Box/Folder
3/14
Volunteers
1978
Box/Folder
3/15
Volunteer Training Packs
N.D.
Box/Folder
3/16
Women’s Centers
1974-1977
Series 2: Newsletter
Collection of the monthly newsletter that was created and mailed out by the Women’s Community Center to women in the Eau Claire community. It was used to keep members of the center and community updated on the Women’s Community Center’s efforts and events going on within the area.
Dates: 1977-1981
Extent: .2 linear feet (1 archives box)
Container
Contents
Dates
Box/Folder
3/17
Newsletters
1977-1981