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The second oldest literary club in Texas, the Cum Concilio Club, was organized in January 1894. Originally, the purpose of the club was primarily social, with a limit on the roster of fifteen members. Later the membership limit was raised to twenty, where it stands today. The club is a medium for social and cultural enrichment as well as literary effort. It uses a diversified form of program in which each member contributes to the edification and enjoyment of every other member. The Cum Concilio Club has often been publicly recognized for its outstanding achievements through the years. Some of these include: 1) putting the iron fence around Oak Grove Cemetery, 2) insuring the preservation of the Old Stone Fort, 3) participating in volunteer efforts during the two World Wars, 4) landscaping the school campus where the historic Nacogdoches University stands, 5) starting the first public library in Nacogdoches, 6) organizing "The Heritage Club", and 7) contributing clothing to needy persons in Greece and Austria. Also, many awards for exemplary achievements have been received by the club from the Federation of Women's Clubs, of which it is a member.
The collection contains the official records of the Club including the constitution, by-laws, correspondence, minute books, and treasurer's book as well as newspaper clippings, yearbooks, and scrapbooks. Additions to the collection are anticipated.
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15 Boxes
Box 1
Folder 1: Constitution and by-laws, 1933 (3 items)
Folder 2: Constitution and by-laws, 1947 (2 items)
Folder 3: Constitution and by-laws, 1959, 1967 (4 items)
Folder 4: Officers, hostesses, 1926-1969. (3 items)
Folder 5: Correspondence: Appreciation, 1949-1976 (10 items)
Folder 6: Correspondence: Appreciation, club members, 1943-1971 (11 items)
Folder 7: Correspondence: Resignations, 1922-1963, 1988 (14 items)
Folder 8: Correspondence: Pictorial American magazine, 1946 (7 items)
Folder 9: Correspondence: Miscellaneous, 1906-1973 (14 items)
Folder 10: History, 1894-1935 (1 items)
Folder 11: History, 1894-1936 (7 items)
Folder 12: History, 1894-1956 (6 items)
Folder 13: History, 1955-1976 (8 items)
Box 2
Folder 1: Projects: City Library, Hoya Memorial Library, Public Library, 1945-1976 (20 items)
Folder 2: Projects: City Library, Hoya Memorial Library (newspaper clippings), 1949-1964 (17 items)
Folder 3: Projects: Public Library (newspaper stories), 1974 (2 items)
Folder 4: Projects: Restoration of the Old Stone Fort, a sketch called "The Stone Fort" by H. C. Fuller, 20 pages with letter, 1904 (2 items)
Folder 5: Projects: Restoration of the Old Stone Fort, rebuilding Stone Fort on Washington Square, 1904-1907 (6 items)
Folder 6: Projects: Restoration of the Old Stone Fort(newspaper clippings), 1907, 1972 (5 items)
Folder 7: Projects: Old Stone Fort, poems, lease agreement, 1907, 1911 (3 items)
Folder 8: Address for CCC, Mrs. Price, 1905 (1 item)
Folder 9: Address to CCC, Mrs. George H. Matthews, 1900 (1 item)
Folder 10: Memorial resolutions and tributes, 1924, 1925, 1960 (3 items)
Folder 11: Poems about or to the Club, 1908-1987 (9 items)
Folder 12: Photographs, 1977, 1981, 1986 (10 items)
Folder 13: Newspaper clippings: Old University, 1951, 1974-75 (4 items)
Folder 14: Newspaper clippings: Education & Schools, 1931-1954 (3 items)
Folder 15: Newspaper clippings: meetings, members, 1940-1981 (13 items)
Folder 16: Membership pledge, list of furniture loaned for Texas Centennial, other miscellaneous items, 1935-ca. 1973 (10 items)
Folder 17: "A History of the Cum Concilio Club 1894 to 1996, Nacogdoches, Texas" (1 item)
Box 3
Folder 1: Texas Federation of Women's Clubs, Correspondence, 1966-1974 (13 items)
Folder 2: Texas Federation of Women's Clubs, Programs, Brochures, Music, 1931-1963 (9 items)
Folder 3: Annual Report to Texas Federation of Women's Clubs, 1942-194. (7 items)
Folder 4: Annual Report to Texas Federation of Women's Clubs, 1951-1960 (6 items)
Folder 5: Certificates and Awards from Texas Federation of Women's Clubs, 1947-1954 (3 items)
Folder 6: Certificates and Awards from Texas Federation of Women's Clubs, 1959/1960 (5 items)
Folder 7: Certificates and Awards from Texas Federation of Women's Clubs, 1969-1970 (17 items)
Folder 8: Certificates and Awards from Texas Federation of Women's Clubs, 1971-1974 (14 items)
Folder 9: Certificates and Awards from Texas Federation of Women's Clubs, 1975-1978 (17 items)
Folder 10: Certificates and Awards from Texas Federation of Women's Clubs, 1986 (6 items)
Folder 11: Newspaper Clippings: Federation of Women's Clubs, 1905-1975 (12 items)
Folder 12: Financial Papers, 1906-1942 (7 items)
Folder 13: Library records: List of books, librarians, 1896-1910 (1 item)
Box 4
Minute Books, Feb. 1894-Nov.1903 (6 items)
Box 5
Minute Books, Dec.1903-Jan.1906; Oct.1912-Apr.1916; Oct.1919-Oct.1925; Oct.1929-Apr.1934 (5 items)
Box 6
Minute Books, Oct. 1934-Apr. 1948 (3 items)
Box 7
Minute Books, Oct. 1948-Mar. 1963 (3 items)
Box 8
Minute Books, Mar. 1963-Apr. 1981. (3 items)
Box 9
Yearbooks, 1900-1981/82 (80 items; cont. in Box 14)
Box 10
Duplicate constitutions, by-laws, and yearbooks (not counted)
Box 11
Scrapbooks, 1968/69-1976/77-1988/93 (2 items)
Box 12
Scrapbooks, 1955/56-1967/68 (2 items)
Box 13
Folder 1: Treasurer's Account Book, 1915-1930 (1 item)
Folder 2: Treasurer's Account Book, Oct. 1930-Oct.1966 (1 item)
Folder 3: Faith (Mrs. J. H.) Summers' programs, ca. 1960-1984 (15 items)
Folder 4: Invitation, guest book, and clipping for coffee honoring Faith (Mrs. J. H.) Summers, 1984 (3 items)
Folder 5: Correspondence to Faith Summers, 1984 (2 items)
Folder 6: Heritage Club (founded by Cum Concilio) history, 40th anniversary, newspaper article, 1986 (1 item)
Folder 7: Cum Concilio Newsletter, Oct. 1987 (1 item)
Box 14
Folder 1: Yearbooks, 1982/83-
Wooden gavel engraved 1894-1901
Book which belonged to the Club, "My Novel" by Edward Bulwer Lytton, ca. 1895
Box 15
Folder 1: Bill to CCC from R. C. Shindler, Druggist, 1895
Folder 2: Program notes for The Illiad, ca. 1910
Folder 3: Estelle Vincent Sleet Davidson, founder of CCC, biographical info, 1994
Folder 4: Invitation, guest register, photo of members-CCC's 100th birthday celebration, 1994
Folder 5: 100th birthday celebration, regrets, 1994.
Folder 6: Newspaper clippings, ca. 1980, 1994
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