Title: Old Academy Girls (River Falls, Wis.) Records
Inclusive Dates: 1900-1945

Creator:

• Old Academy Girls (River Falls, Wis.)

Call Number: River Falls Mss O

Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box)

Repository:

Housed at the University Archives and Area Research Center, Chalmer Davee Library, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, ; 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-River Falls, Chalmer Davee Library / River Falls Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Records of Old Academy Girls, a social club whose members had attended the River Falls Academy (River Falls, Wis.) between 1856 and 1878. Included is an account of the club's founding, minutes, membership lists, and newspaper accounts of club events.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-rf000o

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The informal social club known as the Old Academy Girls was founded at River Falls on August 15, 1900 by a small group of women who had attended the River Falls Academy which had been established in 1856. At first membership in the alumnae organization was extended to the women who had been students or teachers at the Academy prior to 1870, but as the years passed the period of eligibility was increased first to 1874 and later to 1878, the year that the Academy building burned. Usually the group met annually in River Falls on the third Thursday of August for a business meeting, reminiscences, and picnic.

The two volumes of records include an account of the club's founding, minutes and newspaper accounts of its meetings from 1900 through 1945, a list of members attending early meetings, and lists of deceased members. A few unbound clippings are in an envelope inside the rear cover of the second volume.

Acquisition Information

Presented via Walker Wyman, June 11, 1962. Accession Number: M62-200

Volume   1	Minutes of meetings, 1900-1912; membership and attendance lists, , 1900-1917; and newspaper clippings
Volume   2	Minutes of meetings, 1913-1945; lists of deceased members; newspaper clippings