DuPage Area Older Women

The records of the DuPage Area Older Women’s League (OWL) date from 1965 to 2010 and include material from Hyde Park and Fox Valley Older Women’s League. The collection also contains a scrapbook of the Lombard YWCA. Included in series I, DuPage Branch, are the group’s materials, most of which are subdivided by year: meeting minutes, agendas, program handouts, flyers, correspondence, newspaper articles, publications, by-laws, photographs, directories, convention material, grant applications, newsletters, notes, and anniversary programs dating from 1980 to 2010. Series II, Hyde Park Branch, contains only newsletters dating from 2008 to 2009. In series III, Fox Valley Branch, are meeting minutes, agendas, program handouts, flyers, correspondences, newspaper articles, publications, directories, newsletters, notes and documentation of the discontinuance of the branch.  Materials date from 1989 to 2002. Illinois OWL comprise Series IV, and contains flyers, newsletters, correspondence, and members directory dating from 1996 to 1997 and from 2009 to 2010. In Series V, National OWL, includes preamble, program handouts, correspondence, publications, members directory, and the newsletter the OWL Observer dating from 1987 to 2010. Series VI contains the Lombard YWCA scrapbook spanning the years 1965 to 1969. Electronic records may be accessed in the Center’s reading room.