Summary Information

Title: Alternative Directions, Inc. Records
Inclusive Dates: 1973-1992

Creator:

• Alternative Directions, Inc. (Whitewater, Wis.)

Call Number: M93-200

Quantity: 2.8 c.f. (2 record center cartons and 2 archives boxes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

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

Abstract:

Records of Alternative Directions, Inc., a non-profit organization established in 1973 by a group of women from Whitewater and Janesville, Wisconsin. Authorized to sponsor charitable, literary, and educational activities, the three main programs of the organization were: (1) Meadowlark School, an alternative K-4 school established and run by parents who had gifted/creative or problem children; (2) Happy House Nursery School established in Whitewater in the mid-1970s; and (3) a Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) program for public art. The collection documents administrative activities, financial responsibilities, fundraising and grant activities of the parent organization in administering its programs, the level and kind of parental involvement, and the teachers’ roles at the schools.

Note:

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Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-m93200

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