CARDinal: Cyclone Archival Research Database

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This collection contains welcome letters and packets sent to new agronomy graduate students, correspondence, nominations, senate bills, club constitution, a survey conducted of the agronomy graduate program faculty, and photographs.

Scope and Content This collection (1905-1983) contains reports of initiation, membership applications, reports of the biennial conclave, meeting minutes, secretary's notebooks, monthly and quarterly reports, correspondence, membership information, chapter officers and faculty advisors information, guidebooks, newsletters, photographs, constitution, and by-laws. The records also include chapter history, pledge training information, correspondence with the high council, scholarship awards and achievements,...

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This collection (1911-2013, undated) contains materials related to the American Society of Agricultural Engineers Student Branch at Iowa State University, including annual reports, photographs, newsletters, and meeting minutes.

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The collection (1974-1996) consists of photographs of meetings, demonstrations, and projects, news clippings, and a campus organization registration form.

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The Association for Women in Communications, founded at the University of Washington as Theta Sigma Phi in 1909, is an organization of student and professional women in journalism, broadcasting, and media. This collection contains the records of eleven student chapters formed in colleges across Iowa and the United states, between 1910 and 1977.

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This collection contains records and scrapbooks documenting different Auxiliary A.V.M.A. social events, current officers, and meeting throughout its duration at Iowa State University. It also has meeting minutes, records, and agendas for their meetings.

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The Cardinal Key Honor Society was established in 1926 to recognize students at Iowa State College (University) who exemplify outstanding leadership, scholarship, character, and service. This collection contains correspondence, reports, nomination forms, rosters, news clippings, and constitution and by-laws. The records include information regarding membership selection process, the tapping ceremony, and Leadership Day.

Scope and Content The collection (1908-1992, undated) documents the club’s activities on campus, in the Ames community and nationally. The early years of the club are mainly documented by the scrapbook, memory book and event programs. The collection does not have any records from the final years of the club. The records include historical narratives, scrapbooks, financial accounts, constitutions, membership lists, brochures, posters, programs, newsletters, and yearly records produced by the club. The yearly...

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This collection consists primarily of correspondence with the National Council of Delta Phi Alpha and local chapter members. The records also contain newsletters, constitutions, and certificates.

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This collection (1909-1913, undated) contains materials related to the Iowa State chapter of the greek forensic society Delta Sigma Rho. The materials include record books and publications. The record books contain meeting minutes, member lists, and chapter expenses.

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This collection contains membership directories, petitions for establishment of chapters, copies of “The Bridge,” initiation, annual reports, a lantern slide, correspondence, projects and other documents.

Abstract Founded in 1904, the Cardinal Guild was the origin of student government at Iowa State. Originally a single body, the organization eventually evolved into a three-branched system of student government: Senate, executive cabinet, and a court. The Cardinal Guild changed its name in 1962, becoming the Government of the Student Body (GSB). This collection contains meeting minutes, constitutions and by-laws, guild publications, election materials, finances, reports on student activities, surveys...

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The collection (1979-1994) contains material related the social and professional activities of the Iowa State University Accounting Club, as well as their financial and registration records.

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This collection (1936-1996, undated) contains information from club meetings, lectures sponsored by or related to the club, newspaper clippings, club sponsored field trips, and newsletters. There are group photographs as well as photographs and slides from various field trips. The slides also contain images of different plant life observed on field trips. Most of the slides were created by George Knaphus, a professor of Botany at Iowa State and longtime advisor to the club.

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The collection (1921-1982, undated) contains membership lists, newsletters, correspondence, news clippings, and brochures. The records also include several drafts and the notes to the brief history of the club, The Commoners of Iowa State, written in 1979 by Kent Pellet (Iowa State College, 1928), Ed Voss (Denison University, 1950), and Ralph Luebbers (Iowa State College, 1927).

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This collection (1948-[ongoing]) contains notebooks of the secretary, meeting minutes, membership information, newsletters, articles, photographs from various activities and functions, reports, memorabilia, certificates, a guestbook, financial records, two scrapbooks, an original Farm Op Crest drawing, a plaque, and slides.

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This collection consists of materials related to the Government of the Student Body. Records include news clippings, administrative records, organization recognition and control commission records, supreme court files, and Catt Hall Review committee records.

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This collection consists of material related to Honorary Fraternities and Recognition Societies.

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This collection consists of materials related to Multicultural student organizations. The majority of these files are news clippings about the organizations or promotional materials, rather than records created by the groups.

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This collection consists of materials related to political and social action student organizations at Iowa State University.

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This collection consists of materials related to professional and occupational student organizations.

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The collection consists of correspondence, meeting minutes, and membership lists.

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This collection (1994-2013) contains Iowa State band history, certificates, and awards.

Multiple scrapbooks from Kappa Kappa Psi including photos and correspondence documenting activities and chapter member events as well as the charter application process are also found in this collection.

Scope and Content This collection (1913-1982) contains meeting minutes, initiation, reports, financial reports and receipts, reports from the national conclave, membership information, the biennial Omicron Nu Magazine, and membership cards. The records also contain materials related to the the 19th Annual National Conclave was held at Iowa State University in 1953, including photographs, brochures, financial reports, and minutes from the meeting. Photographs and additional materials from other conclaves are...

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Mortar Board was started at Iowa State College in 1914 as a senior honor society for women. The National Mortar Board petition was granted in 1924, and installed in 1925. This collection contains correspondence, newsletter clippings, publications, membership information, photographs, scrapbooks and other files of the Iowa State chapter of Mortar Board.

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The collections include materials related to the establishment of the chapter, chapter business materials such as minutes, reports, and by-laws, membership lists, and the chapter charter.

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The collection (1925-1984, undated) contains correspondence, membership directories, initiation information, meeting minutes, the constitution, by-laws and amendments, news clippings, announcements, chapter and national reports and proceedings.

Abstract Sigma Xi was organized in 1886 to honor excellence in scientific investigation and promote research and cooperation among researchers in all fields of science and engineering. The Iowa State Chapter was established in 1920 and R. E. Buchanan was elected the first president. This collection contains records and documents including the petition for establishment, charter, by-laws, signatures of the original members and other organizational documents, correspondence, the constitution, financial...

Scope and Content This collection (1913-1980) contains news clippings, activity reports, Gridiron Dinner programs, and correspondence. Also included are directories and scholarship information pertaining to Iowa State University's Sigma Delta Chi chapter. A highlight of the collection is a letter typed and signed by a member: Henry C. Wallace, a former member who graduated from Iowa State College (University) in 1893, started the Farm and Dairy newspaper (later to become the Wallace's Farmer) and served as...

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This collection (1924-2014, undated) contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, annual reports, surveys, initiation activities, minutes of meetings, election reports, information on the Bent, and roll books.