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Town and Gown Council donated these materials to the University of Central Florida Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives in 2007.
All materials were put into pH neutral folders and cartons, paper clips were removed, and photographs and negatives were placed in sleeves.
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UCF Town and Gown Council Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida.
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The Town and Gown Council was founded in 1982 by four women: Betty Anne Stanton, Trish Duncan, Ann Hughes who served as the first president of the Council, and Beryl Colbourn who was the First Lady of UCF at the time. Their aim was not to raise funds, but to plan and host functions for both entertainment and education in order to strengthen relationships between UCF and the greater Orlando community. The Town and Gown Council aimed to act as a liaison between the community and the university.
The Council holds quarterly luncheon meetings in addition to hosting events to draw attention to academic, artistic, and athletic developments at UCF. It works closely with the university's president, and in 1989 it established a scholarship for non-traditional students at UCF. Each member of the council works on a committee, such as, hospitality, publicity or scholarship, and each committee has a chair. These chairs sit on the Council's Board of Directors together with the members of the Executive Committee who are the president, vice president, immediate past president, secretary, treasurer, and university advisor.
This collection is arranged in two series, by type of document.
Series I: Chronological Files, 1982-2004 contains correspondence related to membership and planning events. Also included are numerous invitations and programs for Town and Gown events, meeting minutes, treasurers reports, membership lists, by-laws, newsletters and photographs.
Series II: Scrapbooks, 1982-1997 includes materials similar to the chronological files but in scrapbook form.
Similar records may be found by searching under the following index terms.
This series includes all of the papers accumulated by the Town and Gown Council since its founding in 1982. The folders are named for the president at the time and the dates of her term. The folders from the early years contain mostly correspondence regarding membership; letters inviting people to join and letters declining membership. Almost all of the folders contain the same things: membership directories, by-laws, meeting minutes, treasurer's reports and financial information, papers relating to the Town and Gown scholarship, invitations to and programs for Town and Gown events, and papers related to the planning of those events. Some folders also includes photographs of events, issues of Pegasus, the Alumni Association magazine, newsclippings related to Town and Gown, memorabilia such as an Orlando Loves UCF bumper sticker, brochures about UCF, membership applications, member surveys and attendance, and pin and letterhead designs for the Council. Of special interest are transcripts of interviews with all four of UCF's First Ladies, done by Town and Gown for their event A Tribute to UCF's First Ladies held in 2003.
These scrapbooks contain primarily the same information as the chronological files. The first scrapbook contains correspondence documenting the founding of Town and Gown, invitations and correspondence regarding events, newspaper clippings regarding the Council, the 1983 by-laws, and photos of events. The second scrapbook contains newsletters, invitations and programs from events, news clippings both about Town and Gown and to serve as inspiration for future projects, budget information, and membership surveys and statistics.