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

Leaflets and newsletter

Correspondence (much of it copies of letters to Governor Clements), memos, notes, clippings, proclamations, and newsletters about observing the special year

Packet of information from the National Commission on the IYC [International Youth Commission] including leaflets, brochures, report on children’s rights, newsletter, preliminary report of the U. S. National Commission to the President, and draft Issue Framework for the U. S. National Commission

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

Executive order creating

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

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

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

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

Notebook for the Texas State Office of Action, The Agency for Volunteer Service, a proposal for state funding for the Foster Grandparent Program, and report on the activities of OAVP [Older Americans Volunteer Programs]

Letter, clipping, and copies of speeches presented by National Director Sam Brown and Associate Director for Domestic and Anti-Poverty Operations John Lewis

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.

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

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

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