Restrictions to Access

This collection contains additional materials that are not processed and are currently not available to researchers. For information about access to these materials, contact Research and Instructional Services staff. Please be advised that preparing unprocessed materials for access can be a lengthy process.

Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the American Association of University Women, Chapel Hill Branch Records #3840, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. William S. Kyle of Chapel Hill, N.C. on 12 April 1973. Additions received 21 December 1979; from Karen Gallagher, 6 April 1983; from an unidentified source, August 1985; from Betty Jones of Chapel Hill (Acc. 85103), and February 1997; from Rhoda Wynn of Chapel Hill (Acc. 97028); from Cynthia Parks, Michelle Hoyman, and Marie-Beatrice Keller in May 2023 (Acc. 20230525.1).

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: Tim Pyatt, March 1997

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

Updated by: Laura Hart, January 2022; Davia Webb and Laura Smith, September 2023

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• American Association of University Women.
• American Association of University Women. Chapel Hill Branch.
• American Association of University Women. North Carolina State Division.
• Clubs--North Carolina--Chapel Hill--History--20th century.
• Women college graduates--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Women--North Carolina--Societies and clubs--History--20th century.

The mission of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) is to advance gender equity for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy. The Chapel Hill branch was founded in Chapel Hill, N.C., at the University of North Carolina on 15 March 1923. In November 2016, the name of the branch became the Orange, Durham, and Chatham Counties branch.

The main group of records is arranged chronologically from 1927 to 1996 (folders 1-66). These folders contain administrative records that include membership information, copies of local yearbooks, correspondence, clippings, programs and reports of the North Carolina branches, and annual reports of activities filed by the Chapel Hill branch with the national AAUW office in Washington, D.C. These records are filed by the AAUW fiscal year (July 1-June 30) with some gaps. There are not records for years 1923-1927, 1932-1933, 1936-1937, 1939-1940, and 1941-1942.

Also present are minutes books and financial reports which cover some of the gaps in the administrative files (folders 67-80). Versions of the local bylaws can be found in folder 81. Project files which documentation of a library project and a creative writing contest are in folders 82-94. Boxes 4-5 contain scrapbooks composed of newspaper clippings, press releases, branch bulletins, programs, photographs, and other miscellaneous materials. Box 6 (Addition of May 2023) contains meeting minutes, newsletters, a branch history timeline, presidential addresses, and program brochures, 1998-2023.

• Oversize volumes (SV-3840/11-12)