This comprehensive collection features administrative and historical records for the South Dakota Association for Family and Community Education (SDAFCE) and its various county clubs. It includes applications for 50-year memberships, calendars, postcards, chairmen handbooks, constitutions, bylaws, cross-stitch patterns, historical records, financial statements, food economy leaflets, and guidelines. The collection contains honorary certificates, meeting minutes, newsletters, photographs, presidents' records, programs of work, scrapbooks documenting district and state meetings, and records from Brookings, Moody, Pennington, Perkins, Spink, and Clark County clubs. Additionally, there are educational materials, project reports, membership records, and correspondence. Special items include gavels, podium cloths, wall hangings, banners, and items related to the Susan Wilder Scholarship Committee.
The collection's Administration series includes records from the president, secretary, and treasurer, membership files, and extensive scrapbooks dating from 1928 to 1992. This series also features chairman handbooks, guidelines, constitutions, newsletters, slide presentations, program materials, a gavel, a podium cloth, and a bicentennial resolution from 1974.
The Brookings County Clubs series centers on the 49ers and Du Cum Extension Clubs, comprising secretary's records, minutes, programs, correspondence, clippings, enrollment information, a constitution, a scrapbook, and historical details. It also contains materials related to the Mystery Neighbors and Mystery Sisters Extension Clubs.
The Minnehaha County Clubs series includes club enrollment and membership information, correspondence, minutes, newsletters, secretary's reports, and yearbooks.
The Moody County Clubs series features club enrollment information from 1938 to 1994, individual club histories, secretary's books, reports, constitutions, by-laws, programs, clippings, photographs, and ephemera.
The Pennington County Clubs series comprises membership records, executive council minutes, record books, and a scrapbook for the Southwest Neighbors Extension Club.
The Perkins County Clubs series consists of three wall hangings from the Moreau River Extension Club promoting membership.
The Spink County Clubs series contains records for the Neighbors Extension Club and Spink County Extension Homemakers Council, including secretary's books and scrapbooks, as well as scrapbooks from the Nite Owls and TNT Extension Clubs.
The Clark County Clubs series includes booklets and a secretary’s record book.
This collection provides a rich historical insight into the organizational, educational, and community activities of the SDAFCE and its local chapters over several decades.
South Dakota Association for Family and Community Education