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This is an alphabetical letter series of the General Reference collection. The General Reference Collection was created by archivists to hold information on campus history that is not part of any organic record group. The collection contains material from a variety of outside sources, excepts from newspapers and other publications, press releases and promotional materials, and loose university records.

This series contains materials pertaining to the Board of Directors and the administration of the Alumni Association, including founding documents, such as the charter and constitution. The earliest Board of Directors meeting minutes are bound volumes. By the end of the 1970s the minutes are loose notes belonging to specific individuals. The minutes may also include such supplemental materials as correspondence, agendas and financial papers. The annual report was available for the Annual Meeting, which was open to all Alumni Association members. Financial records for the Alumni Association are found in this series in ledgers, financial statements and Treasurer's reports. Loose items from bound volumes have been removed and stored in separate, appropriately labeled folders.

The Administrative series contains: an account book, budget and financial reports, by-laws, charters, correspondence relating to the administration of the Club, and meeting minutes. The materials provide information regarding the structure of the Club, how meetings were conducted, and the election of officers.

This series contains the Beta Psi Boulé's administrative records. The materials cover the beginning of the charter process for the Beta Psi Boulé to present day. The files consist of the Boulé's day-to-day administrative records consisting of charter plans, certificates and reports, administrative records, Beta Psi Executive Committee documents, financial reports, general meeting minutes, correspondence, memorandums, notices and agendas as well as documents from some of the Boulé's committees. The bulk of the documents were created by the officers and members of Beta Psi Boulé and the officers of the Grand Boulé with the exception of some correspondence and event brochures of other Greek letter fraternities and sororities, Capital District businesses and charitable organizations.

This series contains the administrative records of the Delmar Progress Club, including meeting minutes, correspondence, financial documents, membership records, and committee reports. Meeting records comprise Bethlehem town board and school district meetings, Delmar Progress Club meetings, i.e. board of directors meetings, business meetings, executive board meetings, general meetings, past president's meetings, and special meetings, and General Federation of Women's Clubs (GFWC) meetings, i.e. bi-county meetings, mid-Hudson district meetings, third district meetings, and tri-county meetings. In the first few decades of the Club's existence, meeting roll calls were included with the meeting minutes. More recent Club meeting minutes are interfiled with agendas, ballots, by-laws and standing rules, citations, Club calendars, Club communications, correspondence, event invitations, financial documents, GFWC materials, member guidelines, lists of officer candidates and conference delegates, memoranda, motions, newspaper clippings, notes, policy documents, presentations, reports, resolutions, speech transcripts, webpages, and yearbooks. Meeting minutes are typically arranged by the fiscal year (October to May) rather than by calendar year. Correspondence is divided into general correspondence, which includes intra-Club and extra-Club communications, membership correspondence, and the papers of the Club's corresponding secretaries. Financial records include accounts, audit reports, bank books, checks, Club budgets and proposed budgets, GFWC finances, profit and loss standards, reports of the Club's treasurer, summaries, tax documents, and town budgets and tax reports. The early financial documents of the Club include lists of members, officers, and resignations. Membership records include address changes, applications for membership, dues paid, lists of members, lists of new members, lists of resignations, notices of the deaths of members, and reminders to contact members. Reports include the annual reports of the recording secretary, the corresponding secretary's reports, committee and group reports, conference reports, event reports, membership reports, New York Legislative Forum reports, the Club president's reports, school district meeting reports, task force reports, town board meeting reports, town planning reports, and the Club vice president's reports. This series also includes the Club's certificate of registry with the Home Education Department of the University of the State of New York, the Club constitution, the incorporation documents of the Club (the original 1929 document is stored in a flat file), various iterations of the Club's by-laws, scripts for the installation ceremony for new Club officers, rules for conducting meetings, parliamentary procedure guidelines, New York Legislative Forum by-laws and program schedules for 1974 and 1976, the notes of Club president Muriel H. Welch, and the personal notebook of Club President Wilma DeLucco. Finally, the series includes index cards, which include the member's name, her address, the date she joined, her Club identification number, the names of her sponsors, and the date she left the Club, for former Club members who have died or resigned.

The Administrative series consists of Board and business meeting minutes, constitutions, proposed changes to the constitution, annual and executive meeting files, files of some Club Presidents, and rules and regulations.

This series contains founding materials, research statistics, meeting notes and event reports, legislative proposals and financial and budgeting materials.

The Administrative Files series consists of organizational records which document the activities of the Board of Directors. These include founding documents, by-laws and changes, annual reports to the national organization, monthly meeting minutes, and event programs from annual chapter meetings. Budgets, treasurer reports and event calendars are mainly interfiled with meeting minutes, as is some correspondence. There are gaps in some months and years. Files labeled "Other" contain a mixture of items, including correspondence, budgets, pamphlets, Voters Guides, annual program calendar flyers and study reports.