The collection contains a complete run of the Journal of Allied
Health, the official scholarly publication of the organization, and nearly
complete runs of Trends, its monthly newsletter, and ASAHP Update, a bi-weekly summary of information pertaining to
legislation, health policies, and funding opportunities. Trends was published as Allied Health Trends from
March 1969 to December 1982/January 1983.
The board of directors' agenda books summarize much of the communication and work
undertaken by the association as a whole. The agenda books span from 1978 to 1989, but
contain several gaps. Many of the books were maintained in their original order. The rest
were collected as a combination of working files and partially collected books. Every
attempt has been made to recreate the original order of the actual agenda books, but in some
cases this was impossible.
The early history of the ASAHP is preserved in the form of four volumes of minute books
(indicated in the box/folder list as volumes 1-4), which contain the minutes of the earliest
executive committee meetings, 1967-1978, and board of directors meetings, 1970-1978. Other
than the minutes from the 29th and 30th executive committee meetings, these holdings are
complete. The volumes also contain the minutes of general membership meetings, 1968-1969,
institutional membership meetings, 1968-1971, and a special executive committee meeting,
1969.
The collection also contains board of directors meeting minutes (unbound) from 1979 to 1989
with some gaps at the beginning and the end of this period.
Many publications that ASAHP created, or to which it contributed, are also included in the
collection. These publications cover a wide range of health care concerns, as well as
concerns of ASAHP member institutions, and the topic of accreditation of allied health care
schools is quite prominent.
The collection contains a nearly complete holding of programs from annual conferences. Some
years' holdings feature reports and photographs from the meeting, but the majority of the
conference materials are represented by a program from the event. The collection contains
the annual conference materials from the 1st meeting in 1968 to the 32nd meeting in 1999,
with gaps for the years 1969-1971, 1974, and 1977.
