Most records are open for use in the Social Welfare History Archives reading room. Some supervisory reports and casework files may have restrictions. Contact the Archives for more information.
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The board of directors of Five Towns Community House gave the organization's historical records to the Social Welfare History Archives in February, 1966.
The Five Towns Community House records were cleaned and arranged in 1968-1969. Certain publications and pamphlets that were found in the records were not related to the house's programs. These were removed and placed in the Archives' pamphlet collection. A list of the material that was removed is available from the Archives.
Unpublished inventory available. Please contact the Archives for more information.
Researchers interested in Five Towns Community House should also see
the files pertaining to the house that are part of the National Federation of
Settlements and Neighborhood Centers records and the
The Five Towns Community House began in 1907 when Mrs Margaret Sage, at the suggestion of Mrs. Daniel Lord, decided to establish a small trades school at Inwood, Long Island in Nassau County, New York. Margaret Sage, wife of philanthropist Russell Sage, advanced funds to purchase the land for the school and securities to be held as a permanent endowment fund, the interest from which would be used to maintain the school. Named the Margaret Sage Industrial School, the agency's primary objective was to provide vocational training classes and "to develop the young people in the community into responsible citizens through helping them make normal adjustments to the complications of present-day social and economic life." The school offered recreational and cultural activities as well as vocational training for boys and girls. Its seven acres of playground were used by the youth of the surrounding communities.
In November, 1910, the school's enrollment totaled 291 pupils, predominantly drawn from Inwood and North Lawrence, Long Island. The staff consisted of four teachers. The school changed its name to the Nassau Industrial School in 1911. By 1913, enrollment had increased to 400 and the staff to six. In addition, the school had developed a day nursery center for young children and strengthened its Americanization and citizenship training programs. The school housed the area Family Service Association from 1913 to 1932 and the District Nursing Association from 1921 to 1935. From 1926 to 1931, the school was active in establishing the Five Towns Community Chest. The school became a member of United Neighborhood Houses of New York in 1923 and of the National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers in 1945.
The school's finances suffered during the war years and the Great Depression. It was forced to reduce the size of its staff, enrollment, and budget several times. During the Depression, it operated a WPA nursery and a National Youth Administration program. In 1942, the school became the Five Towns Community House. The name change reflected the shift in its objectives from vocational training to cultural, recreational, and educational programs for small neighborhood groups. It also coincided with an increased emphasis on group work techniques and activities on the part of the professional staff. Beginning circa 1945, a professionally trained staff of social workers and graduate students from neighboring colleges offered specialized group work services. During this time, the house also began to offer in-service training for social work students. Following World War II, in response the population changes in Nassau County, the house emphasized race relations and worked with minority group leaders to build community-serving programs. For example, the house experimented with an integrated day camp in 1965 and hosted a women's group of Jewish and African American women. In addition, the construction of an expressway and an urban renewal project made housing issues an area of concern during the post-war years.
In January, 1965, Five Towns received a grant from the Nassau County Youth Board to expand employment and guidance services in the area. Also, beginning in 1964, the house staff began reevaluating its programs and developing fresh approaches to community issues as well as to their existing programs, such as youth work and child care. The new program structure resulted in the hiring of additional staff and in building renovations. Membership in the house appears to have increased in response to the new efforts. The house also provided consultation and treatment space for the Family Service Association and Peninsula Child Guidance Clinic. The Visiting Nurse Association and Planned Parenthood Association also met clients at Five Towns' facilities. In 1969, Five Towns merged with Project A.B.C. (A Better Community), the local Office of Economic Opportunity-fund "anti poverty agency." The new agency appears to have briefly retained the name Five Towns Community House and then become the Five Towns Community Center. The center is still in operation.
The Five Towns Community House records consist of minutes, agenda, correspondence, reports, statistical reports, financial records, newspaper clippings, press releases, ephemera, and photographs. The records document the administration, programs, and staff of the house, which served five suburban communities located on Long Island in Nassau County, New York.
Series 1, Administrative Records, consists primarily of minutes and correspondence from the board of directors of Five Towns Community House and its predecessors, the Margaret Sage Industrial School (1907-1911) and the Nassau Industrial School (1911-1942). Among other topics, the board records document the funding and finances of the house; its programs and activities; the purpose, methods, and policies of the house; its relations with the Community Chest; and routine business of the board. Series 1 also contains numerous reports, including president's, annual, monthly, and committee reports. These describe and analyze the work of various committees, classes, and programs. In particular, reports dating from the 1930s document Five Towns' shift from an industrial school to a settlement house and community center. Other types of records in Series 1 include financial records, minutes and reports from staff meetings, program statistics and evaluations, and correspondence and reports from the executive director and president.
Series 2, Committee Records, comprises correspondence, minutes, and reports as well as scattered newspaper clippings, press releases, and background materials related to the work of various house committees. The series includes records from committees that were involved with education, community service and employment programs; the administration and facilities of the house; and house staff and volunteers.
Series 3, Subjects, Programs and Activities, contains correspondence, minutes, statistics, reports, publicity materials, manuals, lists, brochures and other publications, membership records, personnel records, forms, and ephemera. The records document clubs, classes, events, programs, services and personnel at the community house from the 1930s through the mid-1960s.
Series 4, Field Work Placements, documents field work training at Five Towns Community House for graduate and undergraduate social work students from New York area colleges and universities. For the most part, the records document arrangements for field work training and the use of field placement students at the house from the 1940s through the mid-1960s.
Series 5, Group Work Records, is the largest portion of the Five Towns records. The materials document the administration, activities and leadership of the houses' youth clubs from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. There are two sections of group work records: group work reports and evaluations related to individual clubs (folders 181-382) and reports of conferences between agency supervisors and group leaders (folders 383-436). Filed with these records are undergraduate students’ reports of group work observations (folders 437-439) and papers of a house supervisor, Alice Suzuki (folder 440).
The group work reports are written records of leaders' work with house groups. These are filed chronologically according year and, thereunder, alphabetically by the name of the group. This arrangement generally parallels the program schedule. Most groups functioned from October to May or February to May and during the summer months. As a result, an individual group’s records for a period of years will be found in several folders. (For example, materials on the "Debs" is in folders 184, 216, 240, and 275.) The group work records generally include leaders' reports of individual group meetings, evaluations of individual members of the group ("individual summaries"), and a "group summary." These reports and evaluations give the character, composition, and activities of the group and usually indicate the attitudes and policies of the worker. These records also offer insight into group work methods and techniques, as well as some of its underlying assumptions. They also reflect the nature of the community and clients involved with Five Towns Community House. Some records are complete while others are fragmentary.
The supervisory reports are records of conferences between group leaders and their supervisors. These are filed chronologically by year and month, generally following the house’s program calendar, and, thereunder, alphabetically by name. (These records may have restrictions. Please consult the archivist.)
Series 6, Related Organizations, contains material from local and county civic, political, and service organization and national or New York area social welfare and settlement house organizations. The series includes correspondence, minutes and agenda, memoranda, by-laws, reports, brochures, and lists. The records document relations between Five Towns Community House and other organizations in the field; the house's conference participation; and its cooperative projects with civic, educational, and social welfare agencies. In particular, the records reflect Five Towns' communication and cooperation with other organizations in relation to various social issues, including juvenile delinquency, race relations, recreation, mental health, housing, and youth services. Series 7, Publicity, consists primarily of photographs. The series also includes newspaper clippings and press releases.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the University of Minnesota Libraries. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
School superintendent’s reports; annual reports; manual and technical training reports; reports of the library and education committee, playground and entertainment committee, and house committee; treasurer’s reports; and evaluations of industrial and non-industrial classes offered.
Reports on sewing and industrial classes.
Minutes and correspondence discussing the terms of Margaret Sage’s endowment of the school.
Reports on: attendance at industrial classes, boys work, relationship between school and community, the house and grounds committee, recreational activities, and the school's response to a polio epidemic (July, 1916). See legal folder 1 for additional papers.
Annual reports or reports of annual meetings which include class and activities reports. Also contains occasional monthly reports and president’s reports. These records reflect the shift in the school’s functions from those of an industrial school to those of a settlement.
Annual reports or reports of annual meetings which include material on activities and attendance, the National Youth Administration, group work, and other topics. These papers show the development and utilization of group work theory in directing activities at the school.
Topics include programs and activities, personnel practices,
finance, industrial classes, YMCA-YWCA activities, Community Chest funding,
impact of the Great Depression, and the use of volunteers. Includes a copy of
an 1884 article from the
Topics include activities and programs, registrants, funding, salary reductions during the Depression, regulations regarding use of the school building, school playground, committee members, purpose of the school (circa 1930), volunteers, and the Community Chest.
Includes agenda, and committee reports to the board of directors. Material on relations between the Community Chest and Five Towns Community House, wartime programs, WPA, and National Youth Administration.
Related to house activities and programs. Topics include volunteers, group work techniques, personnel practices, interracial activities, boys and girls work.
Agendas, reports of the president and executive director, and lists of committee members and members of the board of directors.
Agendas, president’s reports, annual reports, and committee reports. Some issues discussed are agency financing, volunteers, segments of the community served, and effectiveness of programs.
Primarily correspondence and papers dealing with the 50th anniversary of the community house. Includes report of the president for 1957, agenda for the 1958 annual meeting, and a fiftieth anniversary pamphlet detailing changing functions of the house.
Includes annual reports of the community house, president’s reports, agenda, some financial material.
Material regarding finance, recreation programs, and the Community Chest, as well as housekeeping and routine activities.
Includes agenda and committee reports to the board of directors. Topics include relations between the Community Chest and Five Towns Community House, wartime programs, WPA, and the National Youth Administration.
Includes committee reports to the board of directors. Topics include community adjustment to postwar society, volunteers, Community Chest-social agency interaction, child care, and funding.
Topics include programs, activities, problems of financing, and analyses of committee activities.
Topics include programs, activities, casework and group work techniques, and analyses of types and numbers of persons involved in programs.
Topics include special casework and group work projects and brief analyses of programs.
Material on finance, funding, and programs.
Material on finance, programs, and activities. Includes committee reports.
Includes budget analyses and committee reports. Topics include discussion of Nassau County’s approach to the problem of poverty and the Office of Economic Opportunity Job Corps.
Correspondence, agenda, minutes. Topics include the terms of Margaret Sage’s original bequest to the community house, financial conditions in Five Towns, and committee members.
Includes lists of nominations and committee members.
Correspondence, minutes, memoranda. The committee was a "small group of board members who kept informed of House programs and problems and assisted the Executive Director in determining those which should be referred to the Board of Directors." Material on policy regarding use of the building, casework, and interracial problems.
Minutes of the special committee appointed to formulate policies for the community house. Material on services, methods, functions of the house, and personnel practices.
Includes proxies to be voted at annual meetings and corporate resolutions concerning finance and other business.
The handbook provides information on the history, nature, purpose, and services of the community house.
List of board members and committee members.
Discussion of administrative debates over community house programs, techniques, housing, segregation, and race relations.
Material regarding meetings, finance, juvenile delinquency, and vocational guidance for adolescents. The correspondence is largely procedural.
Primarily procedural correspondence from the community house staff to board members regarding business meetings, etc.
"Report of the Committee to Study the Survey Made by the Colored Community Service League;" resolution changing the name of the Nassau Industrial School to Five Towns Community House; "The Impact of the War on the Child;" and "Report of Progress of Five Towns Community House, 1931-1945." The director for this period was Miss M. Asenath Johnson.
Correspondence of Howard McClary, director, and V. Benjamin Louard, assistant director, regarding finance, racial discrimination, legislation, and juvenile delinquency.
Correspondence of Ichabod T. Williams and Horace Bowker. The correspondence is mostly routine but includes material on house finances, race relations, juvenile delinquency, social agency relationships, the Community Chest, day camps, the history of the community house, and deferments for boys' workers during World War II.
Includes statistics detailing enrollment in community house programs and evaluations of junior teen, senior teen, after-school, summer day camp, and young-adult programs.
Program statistics, reports, questionnaires, schedules, proposals, and memos and notices. Includes one folder of undated material.
See also legal folder 2.
Proposed budgets with "explanations."
Description and itemization of expenses.
Correspondence regarding contributions, cash and "in kind."
Correspondence regarding the foundation’s contributions.
Correspondence primarily regarding donations of musical instruments to community house music programs.
Correspondence, minutes, and plans for raising funds.
Reports of meetings.
Reports of meetings.
Correspondence with and papers from the American Association for Adult Education regarding house programs.
Correspondence, minutes, and reports. Material on day care centers, youth services, and house programs.
Includes reports from psychiatric caseworkers at the Henry Street Settlement in New York City and material on casework methods.
Minutes. The committee coordinated community house activities with the Five Towns area.
Minutes and reports on scholarships, program development, and volunteer tutoring.
Minutes and material on the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, community action, and playground and recreational area development.
Correspondence, minutes, and papers. Material regarding vocational training, low income residents, youth employment, and youth guidance.
Soifer Vocational Interests Study: Incomplete study of vocational interests of minority group boys served by the community house.
Correspondence, minutes, reports, statements on the purposes and policies of the house, housekeeping records, and a house members’ handbook.
Correspondence, minutes, reports, statements on the purposes and policies of the house, housekeeping records, and a house members’ handbook.
Minutes, recommendations to the board of directors, personnel practices guides, personnel standards and salary studies, and newspaper clippings regarding staff salaries.
Correspondence, minutes, agendas, and memoranda. Includes material on adolescents, interracial problems, and "Settlement House Programming in a Middle Class Suburban Community."
Correspondence, minutes, and press releases. Material regarding agency public relations, financing, and civic duties. The committee was formerly the Committee on Publicity and Interpretation.
Minutes. Material on the use of volunteers and the Neighborhood Youth Corps.
Correspondence, minutes, reports on youth employment conditions. Includes newspaper clippings and analyses of employment programs.
Correspondence, minutes, and statistics relating to the income and education levels in the Inwood community.
Correspondence, reports, publicity material, and letters seeking funds to sponsor the event. Proceeds were used for scholarships for house members.
Material regarding a disagreement between members of a community softball league and members of the community house over the use of the agency’s field.
Contains a survey and study of "Negro" life (1936) and a teachers guide on the contributions of African Americans to American culture (1963)
Guides used to acquaint house workers with the history and purpose of the house, its functions, and their responsibilities.
Correspondence, lists of material used in classes, memoranda, and discussion of programs.
Correspondence, reports, and brochures regarding the summer camp, which was open to community house members. Formerly Camp Juvenile.
Correspondence and program. The conference was held to acquaint house members with various careers.
May contain confidential records. Contact the archivist for more information.
Correspondence, minutes, and attendance records.
Correspondence, reports, and a list of center registrants. The center, which was federally funded and operated during World War II, ended its program in 1947
The Community House was designated a "rest center" in case of attack. Includes instructions of the Five Towns Defense Council on functions of a rest center.
Publications from various house groups
Lists of clubs and organizations functioning in the Five Towns community and a list of contributors to the Five Towns Community Chest.
List of those attending the conference and reports of the conference and local job discrimination in wartime industries.
Family night program and analysis of attendance.
Papers regarding stamp collections and other materials to be used by hobby clubs at the community house and in New York City settlements.
Records of visits and a manual, "Home Visiting in Social Group Work Agencies."
Correspondence, reports, and papers dealing with urban renewal and, specifically, with the relocation in Five Towns because of construction of the Nassau Expressway. Includes questionnaires completed by residents who were to be moved and analyses of housing conditions.
Records of "contacts" between staff and house members outside a group work setting.
Announcement of contest, sample essays, and evaluations of contestants (who were house members).
Lists of books used by house staff and members.
Descriptions of purposes, activities, rules and regulations of the community house.
Family membership records and evaluations by staff of family members. Arranged alphabetically by family
Family membership records and evaluations by staff of family members. Arranged alphabetically by family
Correspondence regarding the fund. Constance Merrall, for whom the fund was named, was secretary of the community house and a member of the board of directors.
Leaflets, informational brochures, form letters, notices of house events and programs, etc.
Primarily orientation schedules.
The nursery was co-sponsored by the community house and the Peninsula Section of the National Council of Jewish Women. Includes minutes of steering committee, statement of purpose, and records of home visits.
Correspondence, employment application forms, and resumes for professional staff members.
Applications form and evaluations of undergraduate student volunteers, social work graduate students in field work, and persons seeking part-time employment at the community house. Includes letters of recommendation written for staff members.
Material on administrative policies, discipline, house functions, program schedules, and expenditures.
Material on hiring practices of the house, ideals of constitutional democracy, role of private welfare agencies in interracial relations, use of narcotics, and problems of agency-community relations.
Correspondence regarding the Club’s awarding of a college scholarship to a house member.
Correspondence regarding donations and applications to scholarship fund, lists of donors and applicants.
One play script, "The Haunted Clothesline," and one radio script regarding the community house.
Songs used in house activities.
Correspondence, memoranda, and membership lists documenting as adult club at the house.
Material regarding special projects: including youth activities and trips to New York City and Coney Island. Includes evaluation by group worker of trip to Coney Island.
Summary report and routine planning materials.
Correspondence, registration forms, program schedules, financial data, analyses of attendance, staff meeting minutes.
Correspondence, registration forms, program schedules, financial data, analyses of attendance, staff meeting minutes.
Young and senior teens. Includes correspondence, program planning and evaluation records, budgets, schedules, and records of "incidents."
Young and senior teens. Includes correspondence, program planning and evaluation records, budgets, schedules, and records of "incidents."
Correspondence and notes regarding benefit performance of
Correspondence and volunteer application form.
Correspondence concerning the activities of the WPA and its nursery school at the Nassau Industrial School.
Material regarding a program to assist house members who were working or seeking employment.
Proposals from staff members for expanded programs.
Regarding the placement of social work graduate and undergraduate students in field work positions in the community house.
Regarding the College’s community experience program which involved placing undergraduate students in volunteer positions at the community house.
Extensive material regarding the school’s field work program and the use of students at the community house.
Regarding Fordham’s field work program and use of students at the community house.
Regarding the use of students in field work positions at the community house. Material regarding controversy over inclusion of the social service program within NYU’s school of public administration.
Regarding placement of students in field work positions at the community house.
As a part of the Committee’s recruiting work, it sponsored a "Field Experience for College Students," designed to give them a positive experience in social work. Correspondence and papers dealing with the Committee and placements at the community house.
Coed, 8-9 years. The council was composed of representatives from afternoon groups. Leader: Jean Ober
Young teen boys. Leader: Agnes Preston
Teenage boys. Leader: Benjamin Leonard. Wade Cooper appears to have become club leader in April, 1953.
Young teen girls. Leader: Lamitsoi Bright-Davies
Mixed Attendance. Leader: George Rosenblum
Boys 8-9 years. Leader: Robert Lanigan
Girls 8-9 years. Leader: Janet Toohy
Girls 14-18 years. Leader: Janet Toohy
The group was composed of representatives from the house’s four "youngest" clubs. Includes records of staff meetings to evaluate council work. Leaders: Betty Huff, George Rosenblum
Boys 10-11 years. Leader: George Rosenblum
Coed, senior teens. Leader: Wade Cooper
Boys 12-13 years. Leader: V. Benjamin Louard
Coed, preschool children. Leader: George Rosenblum
Boys 7-8 years. Leader: Wade Cooper
The group workers supervised use of the senior teen lounge at the community house. Leaders: George Rosenblum and Lamitsoi Bright-Davies.
Girls 7-8 years. Leader: Lamitsoi Bright-Davies
Teenage boys. Leader: Robert Lanigan
The council was composed of representatives of three teenage clubs. Leader: Janet Toohy
Coed, mixed ages. Leaders: Wade Cooper and Lamitsoi Bright-Davies
Leader: V. Benjamin Louard. Nina Ferrara became group leader in March 1953.
Boys 8-11 years. Leader: Nina Ferrara
Two 8-year old girls who did "not seem to adjust to the membership in other already functioning groups." Leader: Nina Ferrara
Teenage boys. Leader: Nina Ferrara
Two reports regarding effort to organize a group of teenage boys. Leader: Wade Cooper
Young teen girls. Leader: Robert Lanigan
Girls 10-12 years. Leader: Nina Ferrara
Coed, senior teens. Leader: Wade Cooper
Boys 8-9 years. Leader: Frank Abel
Boys 10-12 years. Leader: Stanley Ravine
Girls 7-9 years. Leader Joan Weiss
Girls 10-12 years. Leader: Nina Ferrara
Coed 6-7 years. Leaders: Mary Brown
The council was composed of representatives of clubs which met in the afternoons. Includes memoranda from the leader to other staff members and evaluations of council work. Leader: Robert Chapman
Boys 17-19 years. Leader: William Channel
Boys 17-19 years. Leader: William Channel
Girls 13-17 years. Leader: Shirley Pearse
Coed 10-12 years. Leader: Frank Abel
Girls 8-11 years. Cappy Delk replaced Shirley Pearse as group leader.
The group evolved out of a coed senior-high group. Leader: Roberta Chapman
Coed 12-14 years. Leader: Rita Walsh
Coed 6-8 years. Leader: Mary Brown
Girls 7-9 years. Leader: Rita Walsh
Girls 10-12 years. The group began as a coed one. Leader: Nina Ferrara
Girls 12-15 years. Leader: Rita Walsh
"Pre-instrumental" music group, Coed 8-12 years. Leader: Karl Blumenkranz
Coed 14-17 years. Leader: Alice Suzuki
The leader, Sol Froshnider, taught dancing to three groups of teenage boys, the El Diablos, Independents, and Scorpions
Boys 15-17 years. Leaders: Nina Ferrara and Tom Ferrara
Leader: Donald Mitchell
Boys 10-12 years. Leader: Donald Mitchell
Boys 10-12 years. Leader: Donald Mitchell
Boys 12-15 years. Leader: Donald Mitchell
The committee sponsored a carnival to obtain money for summer camp "scholarships." Leader: William Channel.
The council was composed of representatives of teen groups. Leader: Shirley Pearse
Girls 12-13 years. Leader: Cappy Delk
Teenage, coed. Leader: Donald Mitchell
Boys 10-12 years. Leader: Attilio Busillo
Mixed Attendance. Leader: Frank Abel
Boys 8-9 years. Leader: John Garra
Senior Teen girls. Leader: Marie Russo
Girls 7-8 years. Leader: Marie Russo
Young teen boys. Leader: Donald Mitchell
Girls 8-9 years. Leader: Nina Ferrara
Leader: John Garra. Nina Ferrara took over group leadership in February, 1955.
Adult women. Leader: Mary Brown
Coed children. Leader: Mary Brown
Girls 7-9 years. Leader: Frank Abel
Girls 10-12 years. Leader: Nina Ferrara
Coed 7-12 years. Leader: Cappy Delk
Coed senior teens. Leader: Cappy Delk
Coed. Leader: Nina Ferrara
Boys 8-9 years. Leader: Sol Levine
Coed 10-12 years. Leader: Sol Levine
Young teen (?) boys. Leader: Sol Levine
Boys 10-12 years. Leader: Sol Levine
Senior Teen girls. Leader: Nina Ferrara
Coed Senior teens. The council was composed of representatives of teen clubs. Leader: Nina Ferrara
Coed senior teens. Leader: P. Wilcox
Girls 10-12 years. Leader: Lois Stein
Boys 10-12 years. Leader: Norman Abzug
Boys 8-9 years. Leader: Attilio Busillo
Coed, mixed ages. Leader: ;Robert Kaplan
Girls 8-9 years. Leader: Thelma Miller
Teenage girls. Leader: Nancy Ewart
Boys 10-11 years. Leader: Junious Watford
Girls 15-17. Patricia Turrini replaced Ann Selter as leader in February, 1958.
Girls, 8-9 years. Leader: Ann Shelter
Records of work with "Adventures with Music" and "Fun with Music" groups. Leader: David Simon
The council was composed of representatives of teenage groups within the house. Leader: Attilio Busillo
Coed. Leader: Anthony DeBello
Young teen (?) boys. Leader: Attilio Busillo
Boys 7-9 years. Leader: Anthony DeBello
The council was composed of representatives of after-school clubs. Leader: Nancy Ewart
Coed. Leader: Mary Brown
Girls 15-19 years. Leader: Bernice Heriot
Coed 6-12, years. Contains summary only. Leader: Frank Abel
Boys 10-12 years. Leader: John Canzanella
Boys 8-9 years. Leader: Susan Leyner
Girls 10-12 years. Leader: Daneil Gelfman
Coed, 7-years-old. Leader: Mary Jane Lynch
Coed, 6-years-old. Leader: Marlene Shauer
Girls 8-9 years. Leader: Barbara Zenn
Reports by Martha Benson, Ted Giles, and Aura Metz.
Girls 10-12 years. Leader: Dolores Wallace
Girls 10-12 years. Leader: Marylyn Ritter
Boys 8-9 years. Leader: Fred Barbara
Boys 10-12 years. Leader: Barry Rubenstein
Coed, 6-7 years. Leader: Elleves Inabinet
Girls 15-18 years. Leader: Elleves Inabinet
Girls, 8-9 years. Leader: Linda Davis
Coed, 6-7 years. Leader: Beatrice Arend
Coed 6-7 years. Leader: Elaine Forrest
Coed 6-7 years. Leader: Betty Urbanik
Coed, teens. Leader: Fred Barbara
Young teen girls. Leader: Lynne Levy
Boys club. Leaders: Fred Barbara and Elleves Inabinet
Coed. Leader: Roni Welt
A girls group was formed from the original coed one. Leader: Susan Shershoff
Boys Club. Leader: Rudy Kemmer
Boys 10-12 years. Leader: Hyman Pater
Coed, young teens. Leader: Ellen Lembo
Boys 14-15 years. Leader: Fred Barbara
The council was composed of representatives of house teen groups. Leader: Lawrence Shulman
The council was composed of representatives from Five Towns youth groups. Leader: Lawrence Shulman
Coed, teenagers. Includes material regarding the group’s receipt of an award from Parent’s magazine. Leader: Lawrence Shulman
Boys 15-18 years. Leader: Gus Cambell
Boys 8-9 years. Leader: Gerri Cohn
Boys, 13-16 years. Leader: Steve Bromfield
Girls 7-9 years. Leader: Harriet Lewis
Girls 10-12 years. Leader: Frances Miller
Boys, 10-12 years. Leaders: Carol Sommer and Frank Germano
Coed. Leader: Gus Campbell
Coed. Leader: Steve Bromfield
Boys 10-12 years. Leader: Steve Bromfield
Coed 10-12 years. Leader: Evelyn Duffy
Boys 8-9 years. Leader: Barry Rubenstein
Girls 9-12 years. Leader: Lila Gordon
Girls 8-9 years. Leader: Margery Henderson
Boys, 8-9 years. Leader: Barbara Selle Parker
Girls 8-9 years. Leader: Jane Gilbert
6-7 years. Leader: Carol Schneider
Boys 10-12 years. Leader: Hilliary Hatchett
Girls 12-13 years. Leader: Barbara Selle Parker
Young teen boys. Leader: Thomas Oellerich
Girls, 10-12 years. Leader: Marcia Levinson
Boys, 8-9 years. Leader: Barbara Selle Parker
Coed, 6-7 years. Leader: Barbara Selle Parker
Girls 9-10 years. Leader: Linda Davis
Young teen girls. Leader: Esther Gropper. Gropper was replaced during the year by a person whose identity cannot be determined from the records.
Reports of Dominick Minetti’s undergraduate group work assistants.
Boys 13-15 years. Leader: Richard Hennessy
Girls, 13-16 years. Leader: Barbara Selle Parker
Boys 10-12 years. Leader: Dominick Minotti
Teenage girls who were daughters of recent immigrants. Leaders: Diana Robbins and Deborah Lewittes
Dominick Minotti
Co-ed 6-7 years. Leader: Stephanie Talmud
Girls 10-12 years. Leader: Phyllis Brody
Boys 10-12 years. Leader: Walker Brown
Girls 8-9 years. Leader: Jane Gilbert
Leader: Paul Schwartz
Girls 11-13 years. Leader: Nancy Dorn
Girls 13 years. Leader: Mildred Kaufman
Teenage boys. Leader: Lou Stovell
Boys 8-9 years. Leader: Merrill Tribble. Tribble replaced Cecile Rosenfeld and Rae Chemers in March, 1963.
Girls 10-12 years. Leader: Linda Boy
Young teen girls. Leader: Lynne Levy
The "group" consisted of one Italian-American teenage girl. Leader: Mildred Kaufman
Boys 9-13 years. Leader: Lou Stovell
Coed, teenagers. Leader: Lou Stovell
Girls 10-12 years. Leader: Mildred Kaufman
Senior teens. The group was formed by a merger of the Effrons and the Imperial Gents. Leader: Lou Stovell
Boys 8-9 years. Leader: Lou Stovell
Coed, 67, 8-9, and 10-12 years. Leader: Frank Abel
Coed teens. Leader: Mildred Kaufman
Girls 8-9 years. Leader: Evelyn Offenbacher
Girls 10-12 years. Leader: Mildred Jackson
Boys 10-13 years. Leader: Lou Stovell
Boys 8-9 years. Leader: Joseph Conly
Coed, 6-7 years. Leader: Stephanie Talmud
Girls 8-9 years. Leader: Evelyn Offenbacher
Teenage girls. Leader: Bernice Heriot
Coed 6-8 years. Leader: Bernice Heriot
Boys. Leader: William Cosenza
Boys 15-18 years. Leader: Winston Schepps
Boys 8-9 years. Leader: Donald Nelson
Boys 8-9 years. Leader: Donald Nelson
Girls 8-10 years. Leader: Judy Zipser
Boys 10-13 years. Leader: Winston Schepps
Senior teen boys. Leader: Lou Stovell
Boys. Leader: Merrill Tribble
Young teen boys. Leader: Donald Nelson
Senior teen boys. Leader: Winston Schepps
Boys 10-13 years. Leader: Winston Schepps
Young teen girls. Leader: Betty Adler
Boys 10-13 years. Leader: Lou Stovell
Leader: Winston Schepps
Boys 11-12 years. Leader: Merrill Tribble
Boys 8-10 years. Leader: Russell Gilbert
Girls 8-10 years. Leader: Marion Collins
Coed 6-8 years. Leader: Bernice Heriot
Reports of undergraduate students observing group work at the community house.
Includes supervisory reports, group work records, evaluations of house members, program outlines, etc.
AFS brochures and bylaws
Community house participation in the Conference’s annual forum.
Correspondence and papers reflecting use of volunteers by private welfare organizations.
Correspondence, minutes, by-laws
Correspondence, minutes, memoranda and a board manual.
Relation of the community house to the federation.
Material on field work placement of social work graduate students, federation finances, institutes and conferences, national legislation, and personnel practices etc.
NFS annual reports and directories of member settlement houses.
Programs, memoranda and related materials
Correspondence, agenda, minutes, and memoranda
Material on settlement programs, social action, legislation.
Includes material on inter-cultural and interracial programming and on aging.
Includes material on WPA workers and on boys' and girls' work.
Formerly the Nassau County Council of Social Agencies. Includes a study of the need for health and welfare services, especially services to children, in Nassau County. Also includes statement of purpose and list of member agencies.
Formerly the Nassau County Council of Social Agencies. Includes a study of the need for health and welfare services, especially services to children, in Nassau County. Also includes statement of purpose and list of member agencies.
Correspondence regarding juvenile delinquency, "gang wars" and police and settlement interaction.
Information from the house on youth guidance and employment services, description of house programs, analyses of housing and education in the Five Towns area, and suggestions for expansion of youth programs.
Includes material describing council programs
Formerly the Five Towns Council of Social Agencies. The council served as a planning and coordinating body for Five Towns community health and welfare services. Includes a list of Five Towns area clubs and organizations (1965).
The committee sponsored the annual Five Towns Fair. Correspondence, clippings
Correspondence, agenda, and minutes. Includes lists of council committees, individual and organizational members, and executive committee members. Topics include recreation, housing, and Community Chest services.
Material regarding integration and religion in public schools.
Calendar of events sponsored by the committee and other routine materials.
Correspondence and minutes of recreation leaders’ training institute, and discussion of programs and purposes of the committee. After 1955, scattered material only.
Formerly the Family Service Association of Lawrence. Regarding joint casework problems and services and proposed joint projects involving casework and group work activities.
The foundation sought "to supplement the existing creative and educational program" of the community and worked with the community house in providing scholarships to house members. Includes correspondence with the foundation and with scholarship recipients, foundation reports, and programs. The house nominated the foundation for the 1958 Lane Bryant annual award for volunteer community service.
Includes comments on changing nature of the Five Towns community.
Correspondence, pamphlets, clippings
The committee was formed in response to an urban renewal project in the Inwood area of Hempstead. Primarily minutes of meetings.
The Consultation Service was a "comprehensive mental health facility." Includes "Fact Sheet of the Town of Hempstead."
Records relate to the professional advisory committee to the center. Includes a report, "A Clinical Demonstration of the Child Guidance Team."
Recreation programs offered by the school district. Correspondence, reports, memoranda, clippings
Material dealing with relations between the community house and the school district, in particular sharing of facilities. Includes material on racial integration.
Correspondence and minutes. Includes material on recreation.
New edition of a 1933 account.
Photos of staff and members.
Photos of staff and members.