Title: Racine County Home and Community Education Records
Inclusive Dates: 1947-1998

Creator:

• Racine County Home and Community Education

Call Number: UWP Manuscript Collection 4

Quantity: 3.4 cubic feet (4 archives boxes and 4 flat boxes)

Repository:

University of Wisconsin-Parkside Libraries, Archives Department

Archival Locations:

UW-Parkside Library / Parkside Area Research Ctr. (Map)

See the catalog entry for information about possible additional materials and access to the collection.

C18/F6; C19/D1; C19/E1

Abstract:

Racine County Home and Community Education was founded in 1947 as the Home Demonstration Council, a national women’s program of the University of Wisconsin Extension supported by the United States Department of Agriculture. In 1994, the state withdrew from the national organization to become the Wisconsin Association for Home and Community Education. Membership was open to all interested individuals, but chiefly consisted of women. The collection primarily contains organizational records, activity products, and scrapbooks.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-pks-uwpksmc004

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Racine County Home and Community Education was founded in 1947 as the Home Demonstration Council, a national women’s program of the University of Wisconsin Extension supported by the United States Department of Agriculture. In 1969, UW Extension changed the state association name to Wisconsin Extension Homemakers, then the Wisconsin Association for Family and Community Education in 1993, and finally the state withdrew from the national organization to become the Wisconsin Association for Home and Community Education in 1994. Through all these changes, the organization sought to improve the lives of its members, their families and their communities, as well as communities throughout the world, through fellowship, productivity, and knowledge.

Racine County Home and Community Education was governed by an executive council at the county level, consisting of representatives from local area clubs, and supported by the University of Wisconsin Racine County Extension. Clubs were led by an elected President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer with additional committees. The organization was part of state and national level organizations that varied over time, principally the Southeast Wisconsin District Extension Homemakers, Wisconsin Extension Homemaker’s Council, Country Women’s Council of the U.S.A, and National Extension Homemaker’s Council. The organization was also a member of the international Associated Country Women of the World which guided most of the Racine County Home and Community Education International Committee projects and activities. Membership was open to all interested individuals, but chiefly consisted of women.

Organizational records include Executive Board and Council meeting minutes, membership lists with addresses, Treasurer reports and ledgers, annual handbooks, and the organization’s “Excerpts” newsletter. International contains records related to the committees’ annual projects such as country studies, Pennies for Friendship, and work through the Associated Country Women of the World of which Racine County Home and Community Education was a part. Four scrapbooks hold records and program handouts from 1947-1951. Four scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings featuring club members and activities, photographs and program handouts from 1951-1979. A description of the annual activities was recorded on a cassette tape by a homemaker sometime after 1975.

The files are organized by club activity or function, then chronologically for known dates.Materials from the International committee are in box 2 with country booklets unfoldered.

See the UWP Libraries' Archives Department Citation Guide for Primary Sources

Racine County Fair, Vertical File

Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions on the materials, and the collection is open to all members of the public in accordance with state law.

Use Restrictions

The researcher assumes full responsibility for conforming with the laws of libel, privacy, and copyright which may be involved in the use of this collection (Wisconsin Statutes 19.21-19.39).

Acquisition Information

Donated to UW-Parkside Archives and Area Research Center by Racine County Home and Community Education in 2003.

Processing Information

Erica Stiner processed the collection at the Archives in 2009.

Box   4 Folder   3	Case Factory Eagle, 1950
Box   4 Folder   2	Christmas Fair, 1951-1976
Box   3 Folder   6	Community development campaign, 1975
Box   3 Folder   7	County correspondence, 1994-1995
Box   3 Folder   3	Excerpts newsletter, 1975-1995
Box   3 Folder   4	Handbooks, 1972-1994
Box   4 Folder   4	Health education guides, undated
	International
Box   2 Folder   5	Czech Republic dinner, 1988
Box   2 Folder   7	Italy dinner, 1991
Box   2 Folder   2	Miscellaneous activities, 1966-1990
Box   2 Folder   3	Project Denmark, 1980
Box   2 Folder   6	Project Ecuador, 1989
Box   2 Folder   4	Project Egypt, 1981
Box   2	Country studies, 1964-1992
Box   2 Folder   1	Reports, 1970-1983
Box   1 Folder   4	IRS tax exemption filings, 1975
Box   3 Folder   1	Membership lists, 1984-1996
Box   1 Folder   1	Minutes, Executive Board and Council, 1986-1998
Box   4 Folder   5	Miscellaneous, undated
Box   1 Folder   6	Miscellaneous administrative documents, undated
Box   4 Folder   1	"Mr. Yuk" poison control puppet show, 1982-1983
Box   3 Folder   8	Music, undated
Box   6	Overview of annual activities and music, post-1975 Physical Description: Audio cassette
Box   3 Folder   5	Publicity, 1957-1994
	Scrapbooks
Box   6	1948-1949
Box   8	1950-1951 Note: Also includes County Home Agent records.
Box   5	1950-1961
Box   8 (continued)	1969-1979
	Records and program handouts
Box   5	1947-1948
Box   7	1949-1950
Box   1 Folder   3	Treasurer ledgers, 1975-1995
Box   1 Folder   2	Treasurer reports, 1957-1995
Box   1 Folder   5	Treasurer's dues collected records, 1987
Box   3 Folder   2	Workshop calendars, 1947-1991