Goshen Extension Homemakers Club Records

Collection

Identifier: MC 2292

Staff Only
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Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of records of the Goshen Extension Homemakers Club and of its former sister organization, the Goshen Rural Community Improvement (RCI) Club. These include RCI meeting minutes, Extension Homemakers Club secretary's record books (including meeting minutes and attendance lists), correspondence, newspaper clippings, and a series of scrapbooks with club histories, community statistics, photographs, and community organization reports. Other organizations and topics represented include the Goshen 4-H Club, the Goshen Church of the Nazarene, the Goshen Cemetery, the Goshen Methodist Church, the Washington County Fair, and poultry farming.

Dates

1945-2017

Creator

Goshen Extension Homemakers Club (Ark.) (Organization)

Language of Materials

Materials are in English.

Access Information

Please call (479) 575-8444 or email specoll@uark.edu at least two weeks in advance of your arrival to ensure availability of the materials.

Use Information

Use Restrictions Apply: Fragile scrapbooks should be handled with care; no flatbed scanners may be used with scrapbooks

No Interlibrary Loan.

Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).)

Biographical Note

The Goshen Extension Homemakers Club was organized as the Goshen Home Demonstration Club in February 1945, with 13 members, including Mrs. Horace Langham and Mrs. Ben Clark. According to a club history in a 1958 scrapbook (Box 4), “It was the leading Club of the community until 1953, when the R.C.I. Club was organized and since that time it has worked under leadership of the R.C.I. Club, always cooperating on all community projects.” Like other home demonstration clubs, it focused on providing agricultural and home economics education to community members, and organization members often organize community events and participate in service projects and charitable fundraising efforts.

Goshen’s chapter of the Rural Community Improvement (RCI) program was organized in 1953 following a January 1953 presentation to the community by County Agent Carl Rose and Home Demonstration Agent Margaret H. Brownfield. The group’s first goal, achieved in 1953, was to build a community building.

Extent

11.5 Linear Feet (9 boxes)

Additional Description

Arrangement of the Papers

Materials are arranged chronologically by format.

Acquisition Information

The Goshen Extension Homemakers Club Records were donated to the Special Collections Department by Martha Brown of Goshen, Arkansas on behalf of the Goshen Extension Homemakers Club on May 16, 2018.