Marsico, Teresa, 1990

Executive Office records provide a broad view of the College through wide-ranging correspondence for each President (1957-1994) and Executive Secretary/Executive Director (1956-1983), as well as Vice President's correspondence (1974-1991), Annual Reports (1969-1998), Annual Meeting minutes (1955-1990), and Executive Committee minutes (1956-1993). Closed meeting minutes are restricted according to the wishes of the ACNM. Also included are Nurse-Midwives Meeting minutes, 1954-1955. The ACNM Presidents represented here include Sister M. Theophane Shoemaker, Mary I. Crawford, Sister Mary Stella Simpson, Vera Keane, Lillian Runnerstrom, Lucille Woodville, Carmela Cavero, Elizabeth S. Sharp, Dorothea Lang, Helen Burst, Sister Angela Murdaugh, Judith Rooks, Susan Yates, Elizabeth [Betty] Bear, and Joyce Thompson. A subseries of written works by some of these Presidents includes a tribute to Mary I. Crawford written by Helen Burst, a list of accomplishments written by Sister Angela Murdaugh and Lillian Runnerstrom, speeches by Susan Yates, and dissertations from Sister M. Theophane Shoemaker ("History of Nurse-Midwifery in the United States" 1947) and Lillian Runnerstrom, among others. Located at the end of the finding aid is an appendix with a list of the presidents and their years served. Executive Secretaries/Executive Directors include Ruth Watson Lubic, Aileen Hogan, Norma Pilegard, Dorothea Russell, Faye Leibowitz, Flo McDaniel, and Mary Rita Prah. President and Executive Secretary correspondence may also be located in the Division and Committee or Subject Files series, and vice versa depending on the correspondents involved.