The Rita Crocker Clements papers include considerable correspondence, clippings, speeches, daily schedules, block calendars, reports, brochures, pamphlets, leaflets, photographs, and a variety of other types of materials that document the her career as an active Republican Party member and club member as well as an advocate for education, historical preservation, women’s issues, and other matters during nearly fifty years of the 20th century.

These files are not in one alphabetical sequence, but rather in several small alphabetical sequences.

Report titled Summary of Findings and Results from Study of Texas A&M System Marine Programs and Winter 1981 issue of The University & the Sea, a newsletter of the Sea Grant College program

Letters to Rita Crocker Clements about serving on the committee, lists of members of the committee and the several task forces and project staff, schedule of meetings of some of the task forces, schedule of activities for the Academic Institutions Task Force on which Mrs. Clements served, copies of remarks by Howard L. Vestal and Frank E. Vandiver at the October 8, 1981 meeting, and reports titled The Texas A&M University System: An Overview and Missions and Programs Work Group: Guiding Questions

Publications distributed to commission members including the 1981-82 issue of the student handbook titled InRol, three issues of the new magazine Texas A&M Today, and a booklet lavishly illustrated in color titled Texas A&M Is More Than a University that contains information on continuing education, cooperative education, the Development Foundation, and the Career Planning and Placement Center

Packet for members of the Executive Committee for the September 8-9, 1982 meeting including the agenda, minutes of the August 12 and September 8-9 meetings, first and second draft reports of the Task Forces on Academic Institutions, Agriculture, and Engineering, second draft of System Level Recommendations, and a letter from Texas A&M student and chair of the Brazos County Chapter of the National Democratic Policy Committee giving suggestions to be considered for the final report

Progress Report: 1962 Century Council Recommendations and Suggestions

Letter to Mrs. Clements, instructions for and information about the March 14-15 final meeting of the committee, and Part I of the final report System Report and Recommendations and Task Force Summaries working paper for committee use only, March 13

Part II of the final report Academic Report and Recommendations working paper for committee use only

Letter, memo, and final reports titled Academic Report and General Report

Overview Materials for the Task Force on Academic Institutions, table of contents and section titled Work Group on Mission and Programs

Overview Materials for the Task Force on Academic Institutions, section titled Work Group on Students and Student Services

Overview Materials for the Task Force on Academic Institutions, section titled Work Group on Resources

Overview Materials for the Task Force on Academic Institutions, Section titled Work Group on Organization, Management, and Inter-Agency Relations

Handbook for Members of Texas State Boards and Commissions

Letters and supplementary materials from A&M Chancellor Arthur G. Hansen to Mrs. Clements concerning preservation of the Permanent University Fund and an attempt to change the distribution of funds to expand the number of institutions to receive funds and seeking assistance in the adoption of a budget proposed by Lieutenant Governor Bill Hobby

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

Proceedings of a conference titled Impacting the ‘80s Through Corporate Volunteerism sponsored by Tenneco Inc.

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

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

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, 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

Governor’s Task Force on Private Sector Initiatives, Letters, memos, notes, list of members of organizations for private sector initiatives in Dallas, booklet titled Private Sector Initiatives: Alternatives for Action, minutes of meetings of the task force of September 9 and December 9, and clipping

Letter, memo, fact sheet on corporate/foundation philanthropy from Texas Women’s Employment and Education, Inc., statistical report on corporate volunteerism, list of the top 100 non-financial corporations in Texas, and booklet by the Junior League of Amarillo on the Amarillo Corporate Volunteer Program

Correspondence of Mrs. Clements and Polly Sowell as Director of the Texas Center for Volunteer Action. One letter has a small color photograph attached of the 1980-1981 Howard College Presidential Classics who served as official hostesses for the college.

Press release about Evans N. Wentz being named executive director of the Governor’s Committee on Aging; memo, operating report, and expense justification of the Hunt County Committee on Aging; note and May-June, 1979 issue of The Older Texas that includes pictures of Mrs. Clements with recipients of volunteer awards from the Center for Volunteer Action; April and May 1981 issues of Looking Forward the senior citizens magazine of Abilene; and a report on the Retired Senior Volunteer Program

Correspondence, brochures, press release, clippings, IABC district 5 evaluations and awards program entry form

Correspondence, notes, reports, clippings, budget, newsletter, and awards ceremony information of and about Blood donor Programs, Inc.

Letters, memos, copy of House Bill 622 enacted by the Texas Legislature relating to the development of volunteer programs in state agencies that provide human services, an update on activities of the office, record of speaking and conference schedule relating to volunteerism, and a summary of the purposes and programs of the office

Letters, memos, fact sheet, information on awards, minutes of one meeting, and Summer 1980 and Fall 1981 issues of the Council’s newsletter Beautiflyer

Letters, memo, application, and biographical information on individuals interested in paid and volunteer positions in the governor’s office

Program for the conference, brief script for person presiding at awards banquet, scripts for Mrs. Clements for awards ceremony, and article about the conference titled Behind the Lines by William Broyles, Jr. from the June 1980 issue of Texas Monthly

Letters, memos, leaflets, brochures, pamphlets, charts, maps, poster, lists of responsibilities for various agencies, program plans, draft press release, list of key resource leaders, record of roles and responsibilities of groups in a program, information on and copy of standardized record form, list of public health advisors immunization division in the several regions of the United States, report on the follow-up system of the Texas Infant Immunization Program, and records of immunization requirements and reports of measles and rubella in all fifty states

Letters, memos, notes, clipping, articles by Rita Crocker Clements titled The Spirit of Volunteerism in Texas in the December 1981 Junior League magazine The Corral and by Prudence Mackintosh titled My Life and Hard Times in the Junior League in the December 1979 Texas monthly, magazines titled Junior League Review of the national organization and Bright Scrawl of the Junior League of San Antonio, a brief history of the Junior League, reports on trends affecting volunteerism and legislation affecting voluntarism, minutes of a meeting of the Dallas Junior League, and September 1979 issue of the newsletter of the Coalition of National Voluntary Organizations