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Highland Park Historical Society Ravinia Garden Club, records File
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News Clipping, Membership, Committee Papers

A variety of newspaper clippings regarding the Ravinia Garden Club and their involvement in various communities and Universities throughout Illinois, a membership roster that lists their members’ names, addresses, and contact information, and attendance during critical meetings. Additionally, there are assorted program listings, park plans and an awards packet disseminated by the Garden Clubs of Illinois, Inc. for the year of 2010.

Membership Invitations, Pamphlets, and Advertisements

This folder includes various pamphlets, artifacts such as posted advertisements and a sheet that outlines the mission and purpose of the garden club in order to attract new recruits and members to join. This folder also includes two pamphlets that detail the work that the club has done from 1927- 2007, a pamphlet from a dedication service to Highland Park’s Michael F. Bonamarte Jr., and several packets intended to provide a terse summary of flower shows and floral design for new and prospective members of the garden club.

Membership 2 of 2

This folder contains membership application forms, questionnaire forms for new member sponsors, a copy of the various committees in the club, a job description detailing the roles of the First Vice President, a membership idea pamphlet, various RGC recruiting advertisements, and a copy of a new members form.

Membership 1 of 2

This folder contains limited membership rolls and the annual reports from the First VP/Membership Chair from the years of 1943-2011.

Membership

This folder contains the membership, officer, and honorary member rolls between the years of 1940-2005.

Meeting Minutes and Treasurer’s Reports

This box and single folder store only three white envelopes in them that contain the original handwritten and typed Meeting Minutes and Treasurer Reports from the years of 1974 to 2000. There are various versions of the reports contained within these envelopes, such as regular board meetings, general assembly meetings, and meetings combined between both the board members and the regular assembly.
Additionally, there are a few meetings minutes detailing the events of special meetings where outgoing and incoming board members convened to pass on their duties.
These envelopes are arranged as they were received, with the older documents arranged in the first folder, and the newest arranged in the last folder.

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