Overview Records of the Altruist Club

Overview This collection contains scrapbooks from the Ogden Chapter of the Altrusa Club. Altrusa was founded in Nashville in 1917 as a place for business and professional women to meet and exchange ideas. Since the organization required its members to be working professionals, Altrusa decided to make vocational education for women a national policy. Vocational Guidance expanded over the years to include not only scholarships and guidance for young women but older women as well. Despite issues of...

Overview This collection contains correspondence, handbooks, rosters, and meeting meetings from 1949-1999. Also included are newspaper articles, scrapbooks, and a few photographs.

Arrangement Arranged into four series: Series 1, Constitution and minutes, 1937-1971; Series 2, Correspondence, fliers, and programs, 1953-1983; Series 3, Intercollegiate Association of Women Students binders, 1965-1967; Series 4, Scrapbooks, 1973-1976.

Overview The Chareya Club was organized on July 13, 1951. They took the name “Chareya” from Native Americans as meaning “Creator of all good things.” The purpose of Chareya is three-fold: Service, Friendship, and Culture to one another and to the community. The members met bi-monthly from August to May.

Scope and Contents Paper for Weber State University class, History 4990, on the history of the Child

Culture Club of Ogden, Utah. Written by Ann Larson, December 9, 2005.

Overview The records of the Child Culture Club that was started in Ogden in 1893 by the prominent women of the area to further the study of the needs of children.

Scope and Contents The Daughters of the Utah Pioneer Collection contains materials pertaining to the companies andcamps with in the Weber County area of Utah. The Daughters of the Utah Pioneer’s or DUP wasorganized in 1901 in Salt Lake City, Utah to preserve the history of the men, women andchildren who were the original pioneer settlers of Utah Territory. Each member of the DUP hasto prove their ancestry to an original pioneer of Utah. This collection contains...