Governor’s Task Force on Private Sector Initiatives, Agenda for the September 9, 1982 meeting, list of members of the task force, summaries of many ongoing [?] projects, notes by Rita Crocker Clements, questionnaire from the President’s Task Force on Private Sector Initiatives, and the Fall 1982 issue of The Texas Volunteer on private sector initiatives

Proceedings of the Second Robert Lee Sutherland Seminar in Mental Health titled Private Initiative in Support of Public Purpose containing a section on voluntarism in the independent sector in Texas

Correspondence, memos, clippings, reports, speeches, reports on private sector volunteering, and program for the Texas Volunteer Conference

Letter, speech or essay by Rita Crocker Clements on volunteering; reports titled Trends Affecting Volunteerism: A Pattern in Formation, Government and Voluntarism; A New Partnership by Rene E. Moquin, The Voluntary Sector in Brief by the academy for Educational Development, Business Volunteer Council’s Holiday Harvest, Volunteering in America, A Status Report 1981-82 by Kerry Ken Allen in the Winter 1982 issue of Voluntary Action Leadership, and the Independent Sector; July/August 1982 issue of Community and fall 1982 issue of United Way News; press release of the Independent Sector about the dollar value of volunteer time by Americans; a survey form distributed by the Business Volunteer Council; and clippings

Letter enclosing copy of a draft bill relating to the establishment of school volunteer programs, proclamation on Texas Volunteer Week, clippings, agenda for a meeting of February 15, [1979?], resource list, article by Stanley Foster Reed titled On the Dynamics of Group Decision making in High Places from Winter 1978 Directors & Boards, booklet on the Abilene Family YMCA Program, reports titled Voluntary Sector Policy Research Needs by Center for a Voluntary Society, National Youth Service: Is It an Idea Whose Time has Come? by Roger L. Landrum, The Special Friend . . . Project Report, Constructive Involvement for the 80’s, and Americans Volunteer 1974, and several flyers about volunteering and volunteer organizations

Letter, background information about the program and the philosophy of using volunteers, a job description for a volunteer sponsor, a volunteer’s code of ethics, and a flyer about the program in North Carolina

Contains a photograph of and biographical information on Mrs. Clements, Executive Orders by Governor Clements creating the Governor’s Office for Volunteer Services, Governor’s Task Force on Private Initiatives, and the Governor’s Council on Career Education; a copy of House Bill 623 relating to the use of volunteers in providing human services; issues of The Texas Volunteer; programs for Texas Volunteer Conferences; certificates of appreciation given to several exceptional and distinguished volunteers; list of officers and other information about the Beautify Texas Council; information on the Runaway Hotline; a report on the Special Friend Project of the Tarrant County Mental Health Association; list of members and other information about the Governor’s Task Force on Private Sector Initiatives; members of and other information about the Governor’s Council on Career Education; information about the Texas Volunteers for Immunization Action; a Directory of Trainers; and information on several agencies and activities under the Governor’s Office for Volunteer Services

Letters, notes, schedule for Mrs. Clements, agenda, program, and copy of Mrs. Clements’ keynote speech at the Volunteer Services State Council in Austin

Letters, notes, minutes of December 1989 meeting, treasurer’s report, volunteer signup card, information on the Council and its activities, newsletter, and press release copy of Mrs. Clements’ remarks on the importance of voluntarism

Agenda for a February 2 meeting of the Steering Committee, directory of the members of the steering committee, notes, and program for the September 19-20 Twelfth Annual Texas Volunteer Conference

Letters, flyer, invitation, list of activities and festivities during National Volunteer Week, program, and two versions of the remarks Mrs. Clements made at the luncheon in Austin

Note about the event

List of those in Texas with addresses and telephone numbers

Speeches by Mrs. Clements including one at the 1982 Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon in Plano, April 21, 1982; texts of her awards presentations at the 1981 and 1982 volunteer conferences; one titled “The Making of a Volunteer” with no place or date given; one titled Voluntarism—Past, Present and Future to the Victoria Junior League on October 13, 1987; an untitled one to the Texas Medical Auxiliary in Houston on May 15, 1987; and an undated one that was the Governor’s Report

Speeches by others including one by President Ronald Reagan to the National Alliance of Business on October 5, 1981; closing remarks by Caroline Nooin at a seminar in Birmingham, AL on December 15, 1979; one titled Volunteers: An Untapped Human Resource for Human Services Today by Jeweldean Jones Londa at the Biennial Conference of the Family Service Association of American in Atlanta, GA on November 1, 1979; two by staff member Polly Sowell; one by Peter E. Haas at the Fourth Statewide Conference on Volunteerism in Texas on May 4, 1979; one by Rene E. Moquin titled Government and Voluntarism: A New Partnership at the 1979 Annual Convention of the American Society for Public Administration; one by Wayne H. Holtzman titled America’s Future—Dream or Nightmare? at the Philosophical Society of Texas in Austin on December 8, 1979; a short undated one by Thomas W. Pauken titled The Action Agency and Voluntarism; an undated anonymous one titled Accepting the Challenge of Saying Yes about the Junior League; a brief statement by Governor Thone titled Making the Volunteer Experience Count Conference in 1979; and the text for presenting awards at a Texas Volunteer Conference

Report titled Politicizing Charity: A Case Study by Donald J. Devine and booklet about a model youth volunteer program produced by the Volunteer Center of Memphis

Report titled Making Things Happen: The Guide for Members of Volunteer Organizations by Joan Wolfe

Clippings mostly from newspapers and newsletters which Mrs. Clements seemingly collected for use in preparing speeches

Articles from a variety of magazines which Mrs. Clements seemingly collected for use in preparing speeches

Letter, newsletters, brochures, annual report, and history of Volunteers of America

Letters, memos, notes by Mrs. Clements on several aspects of voluntarism, press release, newsletter, fact sheets, annual report of the federal office of volunteer liaison, information on the Junior Leagues, Inc., and background information on CONVO [Coalition of National Voluntary Organizations)

Letter and copy of the Summer 1982 issue of the company newsletter Scott & White Quarterly that contains a salute to volunteers

Letters invoices, and copies of checks to pay for furniture

Programming Handbook

Report by Kim Andrew Elliott, audience research officer of VOA on New Structures and Strategies for United States International Broadcasting

Background information folder on the agency

Report by Margaret Kennedy on the history and nature of VOA’s English broadcasting sent to the President’s Task Force on U. S. Government International Broadcasting

Letters, notes, copy of an act of the Virginia General Assembly to establish a Citizens’ Advisory Committee on the Furnishing and Interpreting of the executive Mansion, and a brochure to solicit membership in the Citizens’ Advisory Committee. Also includes a brochure about the Governor’s Palace at Colonial Williamsburg and a brochure and a flyer about Carter’s Grove Plantation

Canvass tally sheets, clipping, directory of the Virginia State Central Committee, information packet on the PrinceWilliam County Republican Club, article titled Let’s Keep Politics Out of the Pantry reprinted from the January 26, 1965 issue of Look and distributed by the Princess Anne Council of Republican Women, and reports of the Virginia Federation of Republican Women

Letters, notes, invitation, program booklets for the 1986 and 1987 VIPS events, and copy of remarks titled “Volunteers in Public Schools”

One titled “Cities in Schools with George Bush” with a note from Mary Talley, administrative assistant of the program in the Texas Education Commission explaining that Mrs. Clements had requested this item and Mrs. Jill Shaw would elaborate further on how the program fit into Governor Clements’ education initiative and one from the Susan G. Komen Foundation Luncheon long version. The latter is probably the event at which Mrs. Clements spoke in October 1990

Mrs. Clements’ public service announcement regarding Project Teach. More on this is in box 38-81.

Letter from the Governor’s secretary reporting Vermont does not have a Governor’s Mansion

Letter, list of delegates and alternates to the Republican National Convention, and reports of the Vermont Federation of Republican Women

List of people invited, sample invitation letters, and thank you letters from those who attended the event