Columbia LGBT records, 1961-1990, bulk 1967-1989

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Series III: Office Records, 1972-1989

This series includes official and draft meeting minutes, proceedings reports, financial statements, internal memos and attendance sheets for Gay People at Columbia-Barnard (GPCB) and Columbia Gay and Lesbian Alliance (CGLA). Memos include detailed and personal letters of recommendation of board members. Two separate folders consist of governing documents, meeting minutes and memos from the Student Governing Board (SGB) concerning internal operations and its relation to the Earl Hall Center, which sponsored and housed Gay People at Columbia (GPC). With SHL founder Robert Martin as SGB chairperson in the mid-1970s, GPC joined other student groups in 1977 in temporarily withdrawing their membership from SGB because of conflicts over director J. Paul Martin's management of SGB.



Box 1 Student Homophile League -- Letter from Robert Martin on founding of SHL, 1982


Box 1 Minutes, 1972-1973


Box 1 Secretary -- Rick Shur, 1973-1974


Box 1 Proceedings, 1974


Box 1 Secretary Business Meeting -- Official Minutes, 1974-1977


Box 1 Educational Committee Meetings, 1977


Box 1 Meeting Minutes and Notes, 1978


Box 1 Meetings, 1981-1982


Box 1 GPC, 1981-1982


Box 1 Meeting Minutes, 1982


Box 1 Minutes, 1983-1984


Box 1 Meeting Minutes and Notes, 1984


Box 1 CGLA -- Minutes -- Official, 1987-1988


Box 1 CGLA -- Notes, Data, 1987-1988


Box 1 Minutes Spring, 1988-1989


Box 1 Financial Statements, 1981-1982


Box 1 Memos, 1972-1974


Box 1 Correspondence, 1973


Box 1 Chairperson's Valedictory Sermon, 1974 February 11


Box 1 Vice-chairperson, 1975


Box 1 GPC = History, General, 1977


Box 1 GPC Activities Academic Year, 1981-1982


Box 1 Memos, 1982-1983


Box 1 GPC Fall, 1984


Box 1 GPC Spring, 1984


Box 1 Frank Elsea, 1985


Box 1 Memos -- Resignation, 1982


Box 1 Activities - Fall, 1982


Box 1 Attendance sheets, 1988-1989


Box 1 Student Governing Board, 1973-1975


Box 1 Student Governing Board and Earl Hall Info, 1972-1989