ua021_452 Guide to the North Carolina State University, Student and Other Organizations, Engineers' Council Records, 1926-2006 UA 021.452 Finding aid prepared by Processed by: Anna Craft and Cate Putirskis;machine-readable finding aid created by: Cate Putirskis Special Collections Research Center 2008 This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2011-10-30T19:12-0400 Finding aid written in English. North Carolina State University, Student and Other Organizations, Engineers' Council Records UA 021.452 Special Collections Research Center 13.5 Linear feet 1926-2006 The records of the North Carolina State University Engineers' Council contain administrative records (including meeting minutes, officer and committee files, financial records, their constitution, membership information, and other general records), records from events and activities the Council hosted, files from their involvement with the Order of St. Patrick engineering honorary society, production and publications files (including photographic files) for their publication, the NC State Engineer (and its predecessor, the Southern Engineer), and other general information about the Council, its members, and its activities. The Engineers' Council was established in or before 1926 at North Carolina State College (University), to act as a represtative undergraduate student organization for all departments within the School (College) of Engineering. The purpose of the Engineers' Council was to provide a unified student voice within the School of Engineering, while also promoting the study and practice of the various disciplines in engineering. While the records of the Engineers' Council do not indicate gaps in the Councils' activity, the Council may have disbanded at some point and reformed in 1987, according to their current (as of 2008) website. The Engineers' Council remains active as of 2008. For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Special Collections Research Center Reference Staff. 22 archival boxes, 1 flat box, 6 flat files Restrictions to Access

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Historical Note

The Engineers' Council was established in or before 1926 at North Carolina State College (University), to act as a represtative undergraduate student organization for all departments within the School (College) of Engineering. The purpose of the council was to provide a unified student voice within the School, while also promoting the study and practice of the various disciplines in engineering. While the records of the Engineers' Council do not indicate gaps in the Councils' activity, the Council may have disbanded at some point and reformed in 1987, according to their current (as of 2008) website. The Engineers' Council remains active as of 2008.

Scope and Content Note

The records of the North Carolina State University Engineers' Council contain administrative records (including meeting minutes, officer and committee files, financial records, their constitution, membership information, and other general records), records from events and activities the Council hosted, files from their involvement with the Order of St. Patrick engineering honorary society, production and publications files (including photographic files) for their publication, the NC State Engineer (and its predecessor, the Southern Engineer), and other general information about the Council, its members, and its activities. Materials range in date from 1926 to 2006.

Organization of the Collection

This collection is arranged into five series: Administrative Records, Events and Activities, Order of St. Patrick, NC State Engineer , and General Information.

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This series contains the Council's administrative records, including meeting minutes, files kept by Council officers, committee files, financial records, and other general information, including the Council's constitution and membership records.

Meeting Minutes Minutes, Constitution, Poop Book 1 1 1957-1974 Minutes 1 2 1958-1959 Minutes 1 3 1959-1960 Minutes 1 4 1960-1961 Minutes 1 5 1960-1976 Minutes and Treasurer's report 1 6 1961-1962 Minutes 1 7 1961-1972 Minutes and budget reports 1 8 1962-1963 Minutes, budget, correspondence 1 9 1962-1964 Minutes 1 10 1963-1964 Minutes (1 of 2) 1 11 1964-1965 Minutes (2 of 2) 2 1 1964-1965 Minutes 2 2 1965-1966 Minutes (1 of 2) 2 3 1966-1967 Minutes (2 of 2) 2 4 1966-1967 Minutes (1 of 2) 2 5 1967-1968 Minutes (2 of 2) 2 6 1967-1968 Minutes 2 7 1968-1969 Minutes and business 2 8 1968-1971 Minutes, photographs, general correspondence 2 9 1969-1970 Minutes 2 10 1969-1971 Minutes and members 2 11 1970-1971 Minutes and general correspondence 2 12 1971-1972 Minutes and general correspondence 2 13 1972-1973 Minutes 3 1 1973-1974 Minutes, memos, correspondence 3 2 1973-1980 Minutes 3 3 1974-1975 Minutes 3 4 1975-1976 Minutes 3 5 1976-1977 Minutes 3 6 1976-1978 Minutes 3 7 1977-1978 Minutes 3 8 1978-1979 Minutes and handouts 3 9 1978-1979 Minutes 4 1 1979-1980 Minutes 4 2 1991-1992 Minutes, calendars, funding information, event information 4 3 1994-1998 Minutes 4 4 1996-1997 Officers Miscellaneous Council Presidential data 4 5 1943-1970 Council officers and members 4 6 1949-1977 Redwine, Richard 4 7 1958-1959 Foss, William R. 4 8 1959-1966 Madden, Frank 4 9 1960-1961 Ellis, Burke 4 10 1961-1962 Humphries, Paul N. 4 11 1962-1963 Secretary's journal 5 1 1963-1964 White, Jr., Stokes 5 2 1963-1964 Secretary's notebook 5 3 1964-1965 Vice president's personal file 5 4 1964-1965 Sanford, James C. 5 5 1965-1966 Secretary's notebook 5 6 1965-1966 McAdams, Ken 5 7 1966-1967 President's cabinet 5 8 1966-1968 Secretary's notebook 5 9 1967-1978 Crouch, Charles E. 6 1 1968-1969 Secretary's book 6 2 1969-1970 Secretary's book and associated files 6 3 1970-1971 Secretary's book 6 4 1971-1972 Secretary's book 6 5 1973-1974 Jones, Jim 6 6 1974-1975 Secretary's book 6 7 1974-1975 Eure, Robert G. 6 8 1975-1976 Sabiston, Marcia Lyn 6 9 1977-1978 Cox, Roy L. 6 10 1978-1987 Kemp, Jeannie S., Secretary, meeting minutes 6 11 1979 Cox, Roy L. 6 12 1980-1993 Swan, Lisa K. 7 1 1983-1984 Holmberg, Kurt, Treasurer 7 2 1983-1985 President's notebook 7 3 1996 President's notebook (1 of 2) 7 4 1997-1998 President's notebook (2 of 2) 7 5 1997-1998 Officers by year 7 6 2006 Committees Budget Committee 7 7 1978-1981 Committee chairmen reports 7 8 1966-1967 Constitution Committee 7 9 1996 Evaluation Committee 7 10 1962-1963 Finance and Budget Committee 7 11 1986 Grievance Committee, charter and procedures 7 12 1972 Grievance Committee 7 13 1976-1977 Historical Subcommittee of the Member Selection Committee 8 1 1984 Outstanding Teacher Committee 8 2 1987-1988 Financial Records Expense accounting ledger 23 1940-1966 Budgets 8 3 1946-1975 Treasurer Records 8 4 1957-1959 Loan Funds 8 5 1959-1962 Expenditures and Treasurer's reports 8 6 1960-1962 Budget 8 7 1962-1969 Expenses 8 8 1964 Treasurer's report 8 9 1967-1968 Budget 8 10 1968-1969 Budget 8 11 1969-1970 Treasurer's report 8 12 1970-1971 Trust fund information 8 13 1970-1971 Ledger 8 14 1972 Budgets 8 15 1972-1977 Financial forms and receipts 9 1 1983 Activity files and requests for funds 9 2 1983-1984 Financial forms and receipts 9 3 1984 Financial requests 9 4 1984-1985 Financial forms and receipts 9 5 1985 Requests for funds 9 6 1985-1986 Financial forms and receipts 9 7 1986 Financial forms and receipts 10 1 1987-1988 Financial forms and receipts 10 2 1989-1990 Interdepartmental transfer invoices and payment authorizations 10 3 1991-1992 Receipts 10 4 1991-1992 Acts to appropriate funds 10 5 1996 General Applications 10 6 1980-1981 Applications 10 7 1982-1983 Constitution, drafts and revisions 10 8 1940-1970 Constitution, member list, ballots, meeting signs 11 1 1995-1997 Constitution 11 2 2000 Constitutions, Engineers' Council and Order of St. Patrick 11 3 undated Engineers' Week and meetings 11 4 1996-1997 Old membership records 11 5 1926-1952 Proposed constitution 1 1970 Representative information 11 6 1975-1976 Representative information 11 7 1976-1977 Roll sheets 11 8 1996 Events and Activities Series 2 1927-1987 Scope and Contents note

This series contains files on events organized by the Engineers' Council, including their annual social events, awards ceremonies, and outreach activities.

Awards Convocation 11 9 1964-1968 Awards Convocation 11 10 1966-1969 Awards Convocation chairman 11 11 1967-1971 Awards Banquet programs 11 12 1984-1986 Boisjoly, Roger - Challenger: A Case Study in Scientific Ethics [poster] 7 1997 Dance chairman invitations notebook 11 13 1967-1971 Engineers' Ball 12 1 1955-1965 Engineers' Ball 12 2 1963-1964 Engineers' Ball 12 3 1963-1979 Engineers' Expo 12 4 1978 Engineers' Expo 12 5 1979 Engineers' Expo 12 6 1980 Engineers' Expo 12 7 1981 Engineers' Expo 12 8 1983-1984 Engineers' Expo 12 9 1984-1985 Engineers' Fair 12 10 1927-1966 Engineers' Fair 12 11 1955-1961 Engineers' Fair newspaper clippings 2 1962-1966 Engineers' Fair photographs 12 12 1966? Engineers' Fair programs 13 1 1966-1977 Engineers' Fair 13 2 1967 Engineers' Fair poster and article 3 1967-1969 Engineers' Fair 13 3 1967-1973 Engineers' Fair coordinator's notebook 13 4 1967-1970 Miss Engineers' Fair contest 13 5 1967-1970 Engineers' Fair safety chairman's notebook 13 6 1967-1970 Engineers' Fair traffic chairman's notebook 13 7 1967-1970 Engineers' Fair photographs 13 8 1968 Engineers' Fair opening exercises chairman's notebook 14 1 1968-1970 Engineers' Fair information 14 2 1969 Engineers' Fair scores 14 3 1969? Engineers' Fair publicity 14 4 1969-1970 Engineers' Fair publicity 14 5 1970 Engineers' Fair signs 6 1970 Engineers' Fair application forms 14 6 1972 High School Day 14 7 1958-1959 North Carolina State Fair exhibition 14 8 1974 Publicity workshop 14 9 1967 St. Patrick's Dance 14 10 1960-1977 St. Patrick's Dance 14 11 1964 St. Patrick's Dance 14 12 1969 St. Patrick's Dance 14 13 1986-1987 Student code of conduct and events information 14 14 1971-1986 Order of St. Patrick Series 3 1940-1987 Scope and Contents note

This series contains the records of the Council's activities in the Order of St. Patrick, an engineering honorary organization.

General file 15 1 1940-1975 Newspaper advertisements for dances 4 1962-1977 Posters and advertisements 5 1965-1971 Induction ceremony photographs 15 2 1974 Ceremony 15 3 1975-1976 Knights certificates 15 4 1975-1976 St. Patrick's awards 15 5 1976-1977 Applications 15 6 1980-1983 Knights of St. Patrick information 15 7 1983-1992 General file 15 8 1987 Duke University Order of St. Patrick 15 9 undated NC State Engineer Series 4 1946-1995 Scope and Contents note

This series contains files related to the production of the Council's publication, the NC State Engineer, as well as some information on its predecessor publication, the Southern Engineer.

Advertising: CASS Communications, Inc. 16 1 31 Aug. 1992 Advisory Board 16 2 1994-1995 Article Ideas 16 3 1991-1992 Budget and Finances 16 4 1988-1989 Budget and Finances 16 5 1989-1990 Budget and Finances 16 6 1989-1994 Budget and Finances 16 7 1990-1991 Budget and Finances 16 8 1991-1992 Budget Proposal 16 9 1992-1993 Centennial Campus information 16 10 1990-1991 College of Engineering Advisory Council members 16 11 1991 Company Tracking: IBM 16 12 1989-1990 Company Tracking: Proctor & Gamble 16 13 1989 Company Tracking: Public Service advertisements 16 14 undated Company Tracking: Rechenbachs 16 15 1990 Company Tracking: Surveyor's Supply 16 16 1990 Copyright information 16 17 1957-1981 Corporate Publications 16 18 1990 Correspondence 16 19 1991-1992 Donations: Aritech 16 20 1992 Donations: Empire Brushes 16 21 1992-1993 Donations: Engineers' Council Fund Request 16 22 1992 Donations: IBM 16 23 1991-1992 Donations: Lehrer McGovern Bovis, Inc. 16 24 1992-1993 Donations: Siecor 16 25 1992 Donations: Sponsors, Sample Letters 17 1 1992-1994 Donations: United Technologies 17 4 1991-1992 Editor's file 17 5 1992 Engineering College Magazines Associated 17 6 1981-1992 Engineering College Magazines Associated 17 7 1993-1995 Engineering College Magazine Associated Handbook 17 8 1988-1993 Fall 1992: Final versions 17 9 1992 Fall 1992: Originals 17 10 1992 Formation of NC State Engineer 17 11 undated General information (1 of 2) 17 12 1991-1995 General information (2 of 2) 17 13 1991-1995 Gilliland Printing 17 14 1989 Issue Tracking 18 1 1989-1990 Letters to the editor 18 2 1990 Literature 18 3 1991 NC State Engineer 18 4 Fall 1991 NC State Engineer 18 5 Spring 1992 NC State Engineer 18 6 Fall 1992 NC State Engineer Volume 1, Issue 1 18 7 Winter 1991 NC State Engineer Volume 1, Issue 1: photographs 18 8 Winter 1991 NC State Engineer Volume 1, Issue 1: published version 18 8 Winter 1991 NC State Engineer Volume 1, Issue 2 18 9 Spring 1992 NC State Engineer Volume 1, Issue 2: photographs 18 10 Spring 1992 NC State Engineer Volume 2, Issue 1-2 18 11 1992-1993 NC State Engineer Volume 2, Issue 1: published version 18 12 Winter 1992-1993 NC State Engineer Volume 2, Issue 2 18 13 Spring 1993 NC State Engineer Volume 2, Issue 2: photographs 19 1 Spring 1993 NC State Engineer Volume 3, Issue 1 19 2 Spring 1994 NC State Engineer Volume 3, Issue 1: published version 19 3 Winter 1993-1994 NC State Engineer Volume 3, Issue 2 19 4 Fall 1994 NC State Engineer Volume 3, Issue 2: published version 19 5 Fall 1994 Photographs, miscellaneous 19 6 undated Publishers' Representatives: CASS Communications 19 7 1989-1990 Publishers' Representatives: CCI 19 8 1989-1991 Publishers' Representatives: Littell-Murray-Barnhill 19 9 1989 Receipt Center information 19 10 1988-1992 Rejections: BNR, Research Triangle Park 19 11 1992 Rejections: Burlington House Draperies 19 12 1992 Rejections: R. J. Reynolds 19 13 1992 Rejections: Southern Bell 19 14 1992 Southern Engineer information 19 15 1946-1953 Southern Engineer information 19 16 1953-1982 Southern Engineer 19 17 1990 Southern Engineer Volume 61, Issue 1: photographs 19 18 undated Southern Engineer Volume 61, Issue 2: photographs 19 19 undated Southern Engineer Volume 61, Issue 3 20 1 undated Southern Engineer Volume 62, Issue 1: photographs 20 2 undated Staff 20 3 undated General Information Series 5 1933-1998 Scope and Contents note

This series contains assorted Council records, including correspondence files, files on courses and activities in the College of Engineering, news clippings, awards, photographs, and other general information.

Activity files, including National Engineering Student Council conference files 20 4 1988-1991 Agromeck 20 5 1947-1969 Awards 20 6 1965-1977 Awards 20 7 1966-1967 Awards 20 8 1968-1969 Awards 20 9 1969-1970 Blank campus and departmental forms 20 10 undated College of Engineering honor pledge proposal 20 11 1994 Correspondence 20 12 1996-1997 Correspondence and orders 20 13 1957 Correspondence, memos, and miscellany 20 14 1986-1988 Correspondence with L. G. Balfour Company, sample keys 20 15 1957-1975 Departmental information sheets and award nominations 20 16 1978 E-100 Handout 20 17 1989 E-100 lecture series chairman notebook 20 18 1968-1969 Engineer-in-training review 21 1 1957-1966 Engineering daily planner 21 2 1995-1996 Engineering daily planner 21 3 1996-1997 Engineering daily planner 21 4 1997-1998 Engineering daily planner 21 5 1998-1999 Engineers' prayer 21 6 undated Faculty skit 21 7 1977 High school visitation chairman's notebook 21 8 1969-1970 Miscellaneous 21 9 1939-1976 Miscellaneous photographs and news clippings 21 10 1933-1964 National Association of Engineering Student Councils conference materials 21 11 Nov. 1993 National Association of Engineering Student Councils conference materials 22 1 1996 News and press releases 22 2 1990-1991 Newspaper article, ethics 22 3 1997 North Carolina State University open house 22 4 1974 Outstanding Senior award 22 5 1948-1962 Outstanding Teachers 22 6 1977-1978 Overhead transparencies, fluid properties 22 7 undated Photographs 22 8 1998 Engineers' Council Poop Book 22 9 1969 Slip-Stick newsletter 22 10 1972-1974 Student lounge 22 11 1951 Technical Society data sheets 22 12 undated