Community Involvement

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This collection contains newspaper clippings, meeting minutes of the Greenwich Board of Education and the Cos Cob Association, documentation concerning the temporary move of classroom and students to Parkway School, financial records, and the notes of the Cos Cob Association officer Christopher von Keyserling.

Scope and Contents This collections contains the papers and photographs collected by Evelyn Pike Ferris during the nearly 60 years that she lived in Greenwich. They reflect Evelyn's keen interest in maintaining the history of her family and community and primarily related to her husband's branch of the Ferris family in early Greenwich history, and to the several community organizations in Greenwhich that she was deeply involved in. The family records relate to several ancestors of Edgar Ferris,...

Scope and Contents This collection is a single box series comprised of correspondence, invitations, photographs, newspaper clippings, and awards. The majority of the collection is focused around correspondence, awards, and occurrences during and immediately following World War II, but includes accolades and materials from her time working with Rehabilitation International, her time on the National Council for Disability, and the endowment of a lectureship at Georgetown University in her deceased second...

Abstract

Lydia Stevens (1918-2014) served in the legislature as a Connecticut State Representative from 1988-1992. The collection consists of political and personal correspondences, clippings, speeches, reports and memorabilia, which reflect Stevens' participation in State and local politics and in numerous civic and charitable organizations.

Scope and Contents This Collection primarily contains the office files of Greenwich Public School Superintendent Maynard W. Linn during the years 1941-1946 when the Town of Greenwich and its public school system was responding to the demands of WWII on the local population. The records include the evacuation plans and the civil defense communications systems put in place for the town and the schools; the Greenwich and National Safety Council initiatives regarding public safetoy for the town; the extensive use...