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Minutes of board meetings, including some pertinent memoranda and reports.

Prior to Save the Pine Bush, Inc., Lynne Jackson was actively involved in Citizen's Protecting the Environment (CPE) an environmental organization based in Schenectady, New York. The series includes CPE agendas and meeting minutes, brochures, budgets, correspondence, and papers concerning a recycling education class project. Also included are press releases and numerous newsletters from other organizations connected to environmental activism. Though there are a variety of organizations which produced newsletters represented in the collection, there is generally only one or two newsletters per group. One oversize box contains larger newsletters printed on newsprint.

One folder of correspondence contains primarily letters to libraries and publishers, in request of information on Werner's research interests. The second folder contains Undated "letters to the editor" written by Werner. There are also small amounts of correspondence scattered throughout the collection and filed under the subject of the correspondence. As can be noted, Werner often re-used the backs of letters received to take notes on various topics.

Contains 1979-83 day files preceded by general incoming and outgoing correspondence files. This series consists of the central day files of the CWG. It includes letters, form letters, memoranda, project proposals, and project updates. Topics covered in this series includes career ladders, career mobility (1979-85), sex discrimination and discrimination of the handicapped, women and minority advancement, comparable worth/pay equity 1979-86), child care, and sexual harassment (1979-83), as well as Center training programs, and funding.

Series 2 contains records concerning Frank Romeo. This series includes the affidavits and testimonies from the slander case Frank Romeo brought against the UTA, the correspondence between Romeo's tenants and the UTA, photographs of Romeo's buildings and clippings concerning this case.

The Hearings series contains transcripts of public hearings and testimony before the commission on probation services, prison sentencing guidelines, and prison overcrowding; a court document on the transfer of inmates to the House of Detention for Men on Riker's Island; and a list of potential witnesses for a hearing on prison overcrowding. There is also a public hearing response to commission proposals and recommendations, a statement by Marie Runyon about the Harlem Restoration Project, which offered assistance in correcting the problems of unemployment and sub-standard housing in Harlem, and testimony by Barbara Van Buren about Project Green Hope, which provided supportive services to women returning to New York City from prison or referred to Project Green Hope by the courts as an alternative to incarceration.

This series contain materials related to the construction of the campus infirmary and includes daily rpeorts and concrete tests.

Transcripts of the Milne School, the teacher training high school administered by the State College for Teachers and then the State University of New York at Albany.

The General Meetings of the Albany Branch of the AAUW meet monthly and are open to the public. The meetings comprise the major social outlet of the branch serving to attract new members. The General Meetings are generally held at public meeting places at which the officers relay branch news and proposed activities to the members. Guest speakers are often invited to share their knowledge with the branch community at the General Meetings. Guest lecturers are typically established professionals from the Albany community. Speech topics tend to reflect current social issues and their impact on women and society. The minutes contain the following gaps: 1965-1985, and 1987. The available documentation spanning the years from 1986-1991, are very sparse, however.

Minutes of the proceedings of UUP's Executive Board, the body authorized to carry out policies established by the Delegate Assembly and execute written agreements on behalf of UUP. The Board meetings consist of reports by committee chairpersons and officers and the consideration of a variety of resolutions and motions reflecting a concern with a broad range of institutional, social, and political issues. Lists of committee appointments, committee and task force membership lists, and income and expenditure reports for the union are intermittently included. The Board is required to meet at least four times each year, but from the beginning it has met approximately five to ten times annually. See Subgroup IV Office of the Secretary, Series 1 - Executive Board for correspondence and materials distributed at or relating to Executive Board meetings.