MS-054

MS-54

 

THE RAPER COMMUNITY CLUB COLLECTION

 

INTRODUCTION

 

The Raper Community Club Collection was donated to the Flesh Public Library Archives by Kenneth Moore on August 24, 1999.  It consists of treasurer’s books, minute books, annual club rosters, and correspondence from 1937 to 1993. 

 

The collection fills two Hollinger boxes and 13 file folders.  There are no restrictions on the use of this collection.

 

SCOPE AND CONTENTS

 

The Raper Community Club Collection is divided into three series as follows:

 

Series I – Official Records including Minutes Books and treasurer ledgers

 

Series II – Annual Club Rosters from 1948 to 1991

 

Series III – Miscellaneous Correspondence

 

HISTORY

 

The Raper Community Club organized in 1937 for two purposes: to learn to know our neighbors and to promote better fellowship in the neighborhood.  There were eighteen charter members.  Active membership was limited to thirty-six women who resided within the boundary of Troy Piqua Pike and Troy Sidney Road from Peterson Pike to Motter Wagner Point and Orbison Road from Peterson Pike to Rusk Road.  The Raper Community Club’s activities were mainly social, but also included making donations to various charities and sending cards to sick members.

 

CONTAINER LISTING

 

Series I: Official Records

 

            Box 1

 

            File      1          Treasurer’s Account Book – August 1937 to December 1956

                        2          Treasurer’s Account Book –January 1957 to May 1970

                        3          Minutes Book –August 1937 to December 1946

                        4          Minutes Book –January 1947 to November 1953

                        5          Minutes Book –December 1953 to December 1959

 

            Box 2

 

            File      1          Minutes Book –January 1960 to June 1967

                        2          Minutes Book –July 1967 to December 1976

                        3          Minutes Book –February 1992 to December 1993

 

Series II:  Annual Reports

 

            Box 2

 

            File      4          Annual Rosters -1948 to 1959

                        5          Annual Rosters -1960 to 1969

                        6          Annual Rosters -1971-1973, 1975, 1977, 1981, 1985, 1987, and 1991

 

Series III –Miscellaneous

 

            Box 2

 

            File      7          “History of Raper Chapel” -1966

                        8          Miscellaneous Correspondence