Alumni Association Files, 1929-1964

The Alumni Association file is small (approximately .5 cubic feet.) It is made up of the minutes of the yearly Alumni Association meetings for 1929-31 and minutes of the meetings of the rejuvenated association and its Board of Directors 1958-62. In addition, there are some files regarding annual homecoming celebrations and documentation of some funds established by the Alumni Association in the 1950s.

Meeting minutes indicate that the primary purpose of the Alumni Association was to enlist Alumni support for the school. The Alumni newsletter was initially compiled by Institute students and edited by Barkley Moore, who was a student at that time. The newsletters reported on Alumni and school news and documented some of the changes at the school, such as the discontinuing of the grade school in 1958.

The file is not a complete record of the activities of the Alumni Association, nor does it document all of the years of its existence. However, it supplements information found in other parts of the collection pertaining to efforts by Oneida graduates to contribute to the wellbeing of the school.