Acacia, Nun chapter records

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 37-4-1538

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Includes Acacia Fraternity Corporation Board of Directors minutes, correspondence, and financial reports, correspondence, alumni and membership records, fraternity rush material, constitutions and by-laws, meeting minutes, financial records, photographs, The Traveler (the alumni publication of the Acacia Fraternity, Cornell Chapter), TRIAD (the journal), building documents, architectural sketches and plans, and ledgers.

Dates

1906-2007.

Creator

Acacia Fraternity. Cornell Chapter (Organization)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY

Acacia was founded in 1904 by 14 Master Masons at the University of Michigan. Today it is a strong international fraternity, with Chapters at over 40 universities across the United States and one in Canada. Over 41,000 university men have called themselves Acacians, including prominent figures such as Senators, university presidents, state governors, and Nobel Laureates. Famous Acacia alumni include: President William Howard Taft, William Jennings Bryan, Cliff Hillegas (founder of Cliff's Notes), Wes Santee (former Gold Medal distance runner), and Harold Edgerton (Nobel Prize in Physics). The Nun chapter was founded at Cornell in 1907.

Extent

17.7 cubic feet. (17.7 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

SERIES LIST

Series I. Board of Directors Meeting Minutes and Reports Box 1

Series II. Chapter Operations National Box 2

Series III. Chapter Operations Local Boxes 2-4, 21, 23, 24

Series IV. Corporation Boxes 4, 5, 24

Series V. Photographs Boxes 5, 6, 7

Series VI. Chapter Meeting Minutes (CMM) Box 8, 24

Series VII. Publications: Traveler Boxes 8, 9

Series VIII. TRIAD, Journal Boxes 10, 11

Series IX. Chapter Membership Records Box 12

Series X. Brother Membership Files Boxes 12-14

Series XI. Wing Building Documents and Architectural Sketches Box 14

Series XII. Alumni Mailing Cards, #1-854 Box 15

Series XIII. Architectural Sketches, Blueprints, and Reproductions of Deeds and Other Documents Boxes 17, 19, Mss. Collection Box 44

Series XIV. Ledgers Box 18

Series XV. Masonic Literature Box 20

Series XVI. National Interfraternity Conference Minutes Box 20

RELATED MATERIALS

Acacia Fraternity at Cornell / Thomas J. Balcerski. Ithaca, N.Y., 2007; Acacia Fraternity Constitution and By-Laws. [S. l.], 1907; Journal of Acacia, Volumes 1-4; Wayne Heebner Rothenberger papers, 1908-1913; Thomas J. Balcerski Acacia Fraternity Papers, 2007, collection #6583; Acacia Fraternity, Cornell chapter [videorecording] : 100 years of brotherhood / director/producer, Paul Molnar. Other Acacia material may be found in the Karl M. Dallenbach papers, #2958.

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:: Thomas Balcerski
Date completed:: May 2007, September 2009
EAD encoding:: Petrina Jackson, April 2008Evan Fay Earle, October 2009
Date modified:: RMC Staff, November 2015