YEARLY MEETING MINUTES AND COMMITTEE RECORDS OF PHILADELPHIA YEARLY MEETING

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

...an on-line guide to their records deposited at Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting

Yearly Meeting Minutes	Hicksite/Orthodox/United (HV/SW)
Meeting on Worship and Ministry	Hicksite/Orthodox/United (HV/SW)

Committees

Abortion Study Group	United (SW)
Ad Hoc Committee for Financing the Youth and Family Center at Burlington Meetinghouse	Orthodox/United (HV)
AIDS Working Group	United (SW)
Alcohol Problems Committee	United (SW) Includes: Friends Temperance Association
Administrative Records	Hicksite & United (SW) Includes: Associate Secretary Richard P. Bansen General Secretary Francis G. Brown Samuel D. Caldwell Nancy Middleton General Services Standing Committee General Services Coordinating Committee Arch Street Property and Use Committee Central Bureau Bicentennial Committee Computer Committees Finance Services Group Friends House Committee General Administrative and Financial Records Office Committee Outreach Committee Personnel Committee Property Committee Tercentenary Committee
Bequests Committee	United (SW)
Canadian Friends Committee	Pre-separation (HV)
Central America Working Group	United (SW)
Church Unity Committee	Orthodox & United (SW)
Committee on Civil Liberties	United (SW)
Committee the Civil Rights of Homosexuals	United (SW)
Civilian Public Service Fund Committee	Hicksite (SW)
Conflict Resolution Programs	United (SW)
Coordinating Committee for Education & Care of Members(CCI)	United (HV) Includes: Budget Review Committee Committee on Aging Committee on Education Committee on Worship & Ministry Computer Services Committee Field Committee Library Committee Outreach Committee Publications Committee
Coordinating Committee for Testimonies & Concerns (CCII)	United (SW) Includes: Coordinators' Files
Cooperation with Arch Street	Hicksite (SW)
Economic Development Fund for Disadvantaged Minority Groups	United (SW) Includes: 1970 Working Party
Economic Problems Committee	Hicksite (SW)
Education Committee	Hicksite/Orthodox/United (SW & HV) Includes: Chace Fund Committee Council for Education Priorities Field Committee Friends Center Corporation Management Committee Friends Council on Education Libraries Committee Mary Jeannes Loan Committee Publications and Printed Material School District of Philadelphia Search Committee Shoemaker Fund Committee Superintendant's Advisory Sub-committee Teacher's Retirement Fund Trustees Visiting Committee on Schools
Environmental Working Group	United (SW) Includes: Energy Working Group
Extension Committee	Orthodox (HV)
Faith and Practice Revision Committee	United (SW) Includes: Discipline Revision Committee Discipline Changes Committee Common Book of Faith and Practice Committee
Family Relations Committee	United (HV) Includes: Subcommittee on Lesbian and Gay Concerns
Field Committee	United (HV)
Friends Fiduciary Corporation	Hicksite/Orthodox/United (SW) Includes: Friends Fiduciary Corporation Trustees George Bequest Committee
First Day School Association	Hicksite/Orthodox (HV & SW) Includes: Circulating Libraries Visiting Committee
Foreign Missionary Association	Orthodox (HV) Includes: Downingtown Branch Friends Foreign Mission Committee Germantown Branch Haverford Branch International Committee Moorestown Branch Philadelphia Branch West Chester Branch Young Women's Auxiliary
Friends Peace Committee	United (SW)
Friends Pension Plan Committee	United (SW)
Friends Temperence Association	Orthodox/United (HV)
Friends Workcamp Program	United (SW)
Indian Committee	Orthodox & United (HV)
International Outreach Committee	United (HV)
Japan Committee	Orthodox/United (HV)
Library Services Group	United (HV) Includes: Book Services Committee Frances Ferris Committee Lending Sub-committee
Meeting for Social Concerns	United (SW)
Meeting House Trust Funds Committee	Orthodox/Hicksite/United (SW & HV) Includes: Charleston Meeting Estate Trustees Trustees - Charleston Estate Jeanes Fund for Meeting House Purposes
Miscellaneous	Orthodox (HV) Includes: General Records Inventory of Records Memorials
Mississippi Project	United (SW)
Mission Board	Orthodox (HV) Includes: Germantown Friends Mission Board Haverford Local Mission Board Moorestown Local Mission Board
Nonviolence and Children Committee	United (SW)
Philanthropic Labor	Hicksite (SW)
Prison Service Committee of Southern New Jersey	United (SW)
Promotion Committee	Hicksite (SW)
Race Relations Committee	Hicksite/Orthodox/United (SW) Includes: Committee on Lynching (1919-1921) Anti-Lynching Committee (1919-1921) Committee on the Interests of the Colored Race (1921-1929) Committee on Race Relations (1921-1929) Joint Committee on Race Relations (Society of Friends : 1929-1955)
Racial Concerns	United (SW)
Religious Education Committee	Orthodox/United (HV) Includes: Camp Dark Waters Committee Children's Yearly Meeting First Day School Committee Junior Yearly Meeting Resource Materials Committee on Worship and Ministry
Committee on the Religious Life of Our Society	United (SW)
Representative Meeting	Mixed (SW & HV) Includes: Advisory Committee Black Manifesto Response Ad Hoc Committee Book Committee Care of Aging Ad Hoc Committee Confused and Elderly Friends Committee Conscientious Objectors in Prison Comm. Doukhobor Committee Evaluation Committee Exemption Committee Field Committees Long-Range Memorials Committee Miscellaneous Property Care Committee PSSF Rep. Meeting Evaluation Subcommittee Review Committee Right Holding of YM Working Party Trustee Advisory Committee Trustees - Willits Legacy Woodbury Administrative Committee YM Decision-Making Procedures Committee
Social Order Committee	Orthodox (HV) Includes: Business Problems Group Educators Group Extension Committee Farmers Development Group Milk Study Subcommittee Printed Materials Property Group
Social Service Committee	Hicksite/United (SW)
Standing Nominating Committee	Orthodox (HV)
United Nations Committee	United (SW)
Visitation Committee	Orthodox (HV)
Women's Problem Group	United (HV)
Working Party on the Abolition of Torture	United (SW)
Yearly Meeting Teas Committee	Orthodox (HV)
Young Friends Committee	Orthodox (HV) Includes: Publications
Young Friends Movement	Hicksite (HV) Includes: Conferences Publications and Publicity Special Projects
Young Friends Movement	Joint (HV) Includes: American Young Friends Fellowship Committee on Young Friends Conferences, Seminars and Retreats Education Committee Evaluation Committee Extension Committee Field Committee High School Committee Local Meetings Committee Publications and Piblicity Recreation Committee Religious Life Committee Social Committee Special Projects and Travel

Philadelphia General Meeting

Philadelphia General Meeting

United (SW)

Includes:

Joint Committee on a Common Book of Discipline
Joint Committee on Organic Union

Page Last Updated: 08/02/2005

Introduction

This guide to the records of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and its committees was written to help committee members and researchers alike locate information in the archives. Records have been deposited at either Haverford College Quaker Collection (HV) or at the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College (SW).

Instructions

The finding aids for each committee can be accessed by selecting the links to the html or xml versions in the panel on the right. The latter have been coded in EAD as xml documents in conformity with current archival practice. Some older internet browsers cannot display xml files. If you have Internet Explorer 5 or later, please click on the "xml" button(s). If you are using a Macintosh computer or have an older browser, please select the "htm" link(s) for complete finding aid(s).

The actual finding aids describe the records as a whole and include a brief history of the committee and a full inventory of the contents.

Abbrevations & Glossary

SW: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

HV: Haverford College Quaker Collection

United: Includes the records of the committee(s) after reunification of PYM in 1955

Hicksite: Includes the records of the Hicksite committee(s)

Orthodox: Includes the records of the Orthodox committee(s)

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"Agreed, that when extracts from the minutes of this [Yearly] meeting are ordered to be sent to the quarterly meetings, a full copy shall be sent by each of those meetings to their respective monthly meetings, and by the monthly to each of their preparative meetings, in order that each meeting may have a copy thereof, to have recourse to as occasions may require." -- Discipline, 1734.