Title: Central Wisconsin Education Association Records
Inclusive Dates: 1913-1954

Creator:

• Central Wisconsin Education Association

Call Number: Stevens Point Mss AH

Quantity: 1.6 c.f. (4 archives boxes)

Repository:

Housed at the Nelis R. Kampenga University Archives & Area Research Center, Learning Resources Center, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Stevens Point Library / Stevens Point Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Records of a professional organization for educators in a 14-county area of central Wisconsin, affiliated with the National Education Association. Included are minutes, financial reports, convention records, and correspondence.

Language: English

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The Central Wisconsin Education Association (CWEA) is an organization of professional educators and other interested persons formed to promote the professional development of its members and to advance education, particularly in a fourteen county area of central Wisconsin. Approximately 600 members were present at the first meeting held on 24 October 1913 in Wausau, Wisconsin. They elected S. B. Tobey to serve as president and Ira C. Painter to serve as secretary, an office that he held until his death in 1949. Subsequent meetings were held in Wausau, Merrill, and Stevens Point until 1934 when Wausau became the permanent meeting place. An executive committee, composed of a chairman and four members, coordinated the association's activities. Financed by membership dues alone in its first years, the group received subsidies based on total membership from the Wisconsin Education Association (WEA) after 1934. The Association was chartered by the National Education Association (NEA) on 1 February 1921.

The collection contains a continuous record in the Minutes and Financial Reports of the meetings of both the executive committee and general conferences. Meetings were not held in 1917, 1918, 1945, or 1952 when the annual meeting date was changed from October to March. Also included are membership records and general correspondence. All of the records are less complete after 1949.

Attendance Records and Membership Rosters, though not annual until 1935 when required for the Wisconsin Education Association (WEA) subsidy, give evidence of the growth of the association and record representation by county, post office, and city. Some lists also record WEA and National Education Association (NEA) membership. The Programs and Convention Reports contain information on speakers, topics of discussion, sectional meetings, and newspaper reports of the general conventions. Copies of the constitution and all proposed resolutions are included in the programs.

The General Correspondence is largely that of the secretaries, Ira Painter, 1913-1949, A. B. Hooper, 1949, and Sampson J. Paynter, 1950-1954; the executive committee members; and sectional chairmen. Most is concerned with organizing the annual conventions, but topics expand as do the interests of the association in the later period. Included are correspondence with the WEA and NEA, additional information on topics to be discussed in sectional meetings, and some discussions of policies and resolutions of the association.

Related Collections at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin include

• Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC), 1853-1955
• Northeastern Wisconsin Education Association, 1903-1957
• Northwestern Wisconsin Education Association, Eau Claire, 1940-1973
• Northwestern Wisconsin Schoolmasters' Club, 1920-1968

Acquisition Information

Presented by the Central Wisconsin Education Association, Sampson J. Paynter (Secretary), Wausau, Wisconsin, 1960. Accession Number: M60-084

Processing Information

Processed by Mary C. Neth and Joanne Hohler, November 1979.

	General Records
Box   1 Folder   1-2	Minutes, 1913-1951, 1954
Box   1 Folder   3	Financial Reports, 1916-1950
	Attendance Records
Box   1 Folder   4	Lists of general and sectional officers, sectional attendance, and costs, 1931-1950
Box   1 Folder   5	Analysis of attendance and receipts, 1926-1950
Box   1 Folder   6-8	Membership rosters, 1916, 1921, 1923-1924, 1935-1950
Box   1 Folder   9	National Education Association, membership statistics (by county), 1936, 1938-1947
	Programs and Convention Reports
Box   1 Folder   10-13	CWEA convention programs and reports, 1913-1954
Box   2 Folder   1	Sectional program records, 1922-1954
Box   2 Folder   2	Convention programs of the NEA, WEA, and other regional education associations, 1921-1942
	General Correspondence
Box   2 Folder   3-10	1913-1937 August
Box   3 Folder   1-9	1937 September-1943 July
Box   4 Folder   1-9	1943 August-1954 March