Altrusa International District Five records

The records of the Altrusa International, District 5 includes minutes, membership material, minor correspondence, subject files, some financial records, histories, scrapbook material, and printed items including many of the District 5 publications.

The strongest part of the collection is the chapter files in the subject record group. Although somewhat limited in time, dating primarily from 1980 to 1985 and 1998-2016, these give a picture of the scope of club activities throughout the District. The range of chapter activities is also reflected in the newsletters of District 5 and the scrapbooks, but to a lesser degree. Gaps in the minutes are most significant during the 1970s and after 2000, with the period of 1983 to 1999 the most continuous.

While the bulk of the collection deals with the last decades of the 20th century there are several smaller record groups that give some coverage of the span of District 5 history, including handbooks, rosters of officers, conference files and extension activities. An extensive run of The Altrusan, the publication of Altrusa International, also covers events that impact on District 5.

Although the District 5 collection doesn’t give a broad picture of the individual chapters, several of the District chapters are individually represented in the Center for Archival Collections, including such locations as Sandusky, Fostoria, Lorain County, Tiffin, Mansfield, Cincinnati, Marion, Monroe, Michigan and Great Lansing, Michigan.