Social Planning Council Board of Directors Minutes
Scope and Contents
The collection contains monthly typescript minutes and financial statements of the Board of Directors of the Social Planning Council, dated October 1941 to December 1945. These minutes include reports of hospitals, orphanages, nursing homes, camps and several other types of institutions in St. Louis City and County. The following individuals served as officers of the organization: Dr. Llewellyn Sale (president), Dr. Walter B. Bodenhafer, R. Walston Chubb, John L. Bracken, Rev. Fr. John J. Butler, Rev. Richard R. Caemmerer, Harry W. Castlen, Julian B Cohn, Scott R. Dekins, Samuel Gerson, Mrs. John A. Haskell, Judge Fred J. Hoffmeister, Henry F. Chadeayne, Father A. M. Schwitalla, E. G. Steger, Myron Gwinner, Harry G. Koerber, Joseph W. McClain, Mrs. Arthur Stockstrom, Mrs. J. Eldred Newton, and Dean Sidney E. Sweet.
Dates
- 1941 Oct-1945 Dec
Creator
- Social Planning Council. Board of Directors (Creator, Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research use.
Conditions Governing Use
For permission to publish, quote from, or reproduce material in this collection, please contact the Archives Reference Desk at archives@mohistory.org. Copyright restrictions may apply. The researcher assumes full responsibility for conforming to the laws of copyright.
Historical Sketch
The Community Council of St. Louis, established in 1911, reorganized in 1937 as the Social Planning Council. It was supported by the United Charities, Inc. The council was a voluntary association made up of over 95 public and private social agencies for the purpose of studying social conditions; analyzing and stimulating social needs and the community resources necessary to meet them; insuring that the health and welfare needs of people are adequately satisfied and promoting cooperation, higher standards, efficiency and coordination among the agencies of the community.
Extent
1.0 Cubic Feet ( (2 boxes))
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
The minutes are arranged chronologically.
Physical and Technical Requirements
There are no physical or technical restrictions.
Donor Information
Donor information is not available.
Processing Information
Processed by Cassandra Voelkel, June 2009.
- Adult Education Council of Greater St. Louis (Associated name)
- African Americans -- Missouri -- Saint Louis
- Charities -- Missouri -- Saint Louis
- Children -- Missouri -- Saint Louis
- Colored Old Folks' Home (Saint Louis, Mo.) (Associated name)
- Day care centers -- Missouri -- Saint Louis
- Fellowship Center (Saint Louis, Mo.) (Associated name)
- Goodwill Industries Day Nursery and Camp (Associated name)
- Guardian Angel Day Nursery (Saint Louis, Mo.) (Associated name)
- Hospitals -- Missouri -- Saint Louis
- Jewish Children's Home (Saint Louis, Mo.) (Associated name)
- Jewish Federation of St. Louis (Mo.) (Associated name)
- Jews -- Missouri -- Saint Louis
- Lutheran Altenheim (Saint Louis, Mo.) (Associated name)
- Metropolitan Bureau for War-Time Child Care (Saint Louis, Mo.) (Associated name)
- Missouri Association for Social Welfare (Associated name)
- Missouri Baptist Orphans' Home (Associated name)
- Northside Day Nursery (Saint Louis, Mo.)
- Nursing homes -- Missouri -- Saint Louis
- Older people -- Missouri -- Saint Louis
- Orphanages -- Missouri -- Saint Louis
- Public welfare -- Missouri -- Saint Louis
- Saint Ann Widows' Home and Foundling Asylum (Associated name)
- Saint Louis (Mo.). Office of Civilian Defense. Health and Welfare Division (Associated name)
- Social Planning Council of St. Louis and St. Louis County (Associated name)
- Social service -- Missouri -- Saint Louis
- South Side Day Nursery (Saint Louis, Mo.) (Associated name)
- St. Louis League for the Hard of Hearing (Associated name)
- St. Louis Protestant Orphan Asylum (Saint Louis, Mo.) (Associated name)
- United States. Selective Service Board (Saint Louis, Mo.) (Associated name)
- Veterans -- Missouri -- Saint Louis
- Wesley House (Saint Louis, Mo.) (Associated name)
Creator
- Social Planning Council. Board of Directors (Creator, Organization)
- Title
- Social Planning Council Board of Directors Minutes
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- EAD by Jaime Bourassa using ArchivesSpace
- Date
- 2017
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Missouri Historical Society Library and Research Center Repository