bMS 386

General Sunday School Association. Records, 1910-1949.

Note: The biennial convention of 1909 voted to establish the Sunday School Commission, which was constituted in January, 1910. In 1912 the Sunday School Commission sponsored a National Conference of Sunday School Workers, which voted to create an organization that would develop a standard curriculum for Universalist church schools. The General Sunday School Association was thus established in 1913, and remained in existence until it was officially dissolved in 1949. It was superseded by the Department of education, which was founded in 1948 as a result of the vote of the Universalist General Assembly in 1947.

Container List

bMS 386/1 (1) Drafts of constitution and by-laws.
bMS 386/1 (2) Correspondence, June 20,1910-December 24, 1912.
bMS 386/1 (3) Correspondence, December 28, 1912-December 5, 1915.
bMS 386/1 (4) Correspondence, January 30, 1916-March 22, 1916.
bMS 386/1 (5) Correspondence, April 1, 1916-December 1, 1919.
bMS 386/1 (6) Correspondence, July 23, 1938-October 25, 1949.
bMS 386/1 (7) Correspondence, undated.
bMS 386/1 (8) Minutes of Sunday School Commission, May 26, 1910.
bMS 386/1 (9) Book of minutes of Sunday School Commission, 1912-1913.
bMS 386/1 (10) National Conference of Sunday School Workers, Chicago, 1912 (folder #1).
bMS 386/1 (11) National Conference of Sunday School Workers, Chicago, 1912 (folder #2).
bMS 386/1 (12) National Conference of Sunday School Workers, Utica, New York, 1913 (folder #1).
bMS 386/1 (13) National Conference of Sunday School Workers, Utica, New York, 1913 (folder #2).
bMS 386/1 (14) Reports to Trustees of Universalist General Convention, January 15, 1914-January 12, 1920.
bMS 386/1 (15) Reports to Trustees of Universalist General Convention, May 1, 1920-April 25, 1929.
bMS 386/1 (16) Reports to Universalist General Convention, October 20-23, 1923.
bMS 386/1 (17) Financial report to Universalist General Convention, October 19, 1925.
bMS 386/1 (18) Reports to Trustees of Universalist General Convention, 1941-1947.
bMS 386/1 (19) Reports to Universalist General Convention, October 13-19, 1949.
bMS 386/1 (20) Reports to Universalist General Convention, undated.
bMS 386/1 (21) Reports to G.S.S.A. board from field staff.
bMS 386/1 (22) Field work reports of Alice Harrison, October 1946-December 10, 1946.
bMS 386/1 (23) Field work reports of Alice Harrison, December 20, 1946-November 24, 1947.
bMS 386/1 (24) Field work reports of Susan M. Andrews, October 11-28, 1948.
bMS 386/1 (25) Field work reports unidentified as to worker.
bMS 386/1 (26) Field visits, internal papers, and records.
bMS 386/1 (27) Ballots of board members on appointment of George Hutnley as superintendent of teacher training.

bMS 386/2 (1) George Huntley's report on teacher training.
bMS 386/2 (2) G.S.S.A. open house, October 30, 1946.
bMS 386/2 (3) Papers re: General Assembly program, September, 1947.
bMS 386/2 (4) "Visit by Proxy," biographical sketches of G.S.S.A. workers sent out to local churches (folder #1).
bMS 386/2 (5) "Visit by Proxy" (folder #2).
bMS 386/2 (6) Correspondence re: "Visit by Proxy".
bMS 386/2 (7) Undated papers re: "Visit by Proxy".
bMS 386/2 (8) Promotional letters and surveys (folder #1).
bMS 386/2 (9) Promotional letters and surveys (folder #2).
bMS 386/2 (10) "Young People's Christian Union and Sunday School Missions," by FRank W. Gibbs, September 17, 1912.
bMS 386/2 (11) "If Midas were a Universalist," "The Aggressive Program of the G.S.S.A.," and "The Teacher's Notebook," articles in typescript.
bMS 386/2 (12) "Unitarianism in the Religious Education program" published by the Unitarian Division of Education.
bMS 386/2 (13) "Our Maine Churches and Religious Education," and "Intensified Field Work in Religious Education," articles by Alice M. Harrison for publication.
bMS 386/2 (14) "Finding Out about our Universalist Church," published by G.S.S.A.
bMS 386/2 (15) Material on Clara Barton.
bMS 386/2 (16) Material on John Murray (folder #1).
bMS 386/2 (17) Material on John Murray (folder #2).
bMS 386/2 (18) Material on John Murray (folder #3).
bMS 386/2 (19) Material on John Murray (folder #4).
bMS 386/2 (20) General curriculum material (folder #1).
bMS 386/2 (21) General curriculum material (folder #2).
bMS 386/2 (22) List of superintendent's mailings for 1946-1947.
bMS 386/2 (24) "For Superintendents of Universalist Church Schools," irregular bulletin of G.S.S.A. (Outher numbers filed under topic discussed.)

bMS 386/3 (1) Miscellaneous publications of G.S.S.A. (folder #1).
bMS 386/3 (2) Miscellaneous publications of G.S.S.A. (folder #2).
bMS 386/3 (3) Miscellaneous publications of G.S.S.A. (folder #3).
bMS 386/3 (4) Visual aids.
bMS 386/3 (5) Material re: Christmas.
bMS 386/3 (6) Material re: Easter.
bMS 386/3 (7) Material re: Thanksgiving.
bMS 386/3 (8) Material re: Friendship Day.
bMS 386/3 (9) Material re: history of Children's Day (folder #1).
bMS 386/3 (10) Material re: history of Children's Day (folder #2).
bMS 386/3 (11) Children's Day service (folder #1).
bMS 386/3 (12) Children's Day service (folder #2).
bMS 386/3 (13) Material re: Festival of the Home (folder #1).
bMS 386/3 (14) Material re: Festival of the Home (folder #2).
bMS 386/3 (15) Order of service for Religious Education Sunday, First Universalist Church, North Adams, Massachusetts, September 28, 1947.
bMS 386/3 (16) Installation services.
bMS 386/3 (17) Chronological collection of material distributed by G.S.S.A., 1934-1935.
bMS 386/3 (18) Chronological collection of material distributed by G.S.S.A., January-October, 1936.
bMS 386/3 (19) Chronological collection of material distributed by G.S.S.A., November 1936-November 1937.
bMS 386/3 (20) Chronological collection of material distributed by G.S.S.A., October 1937.

bMS 386/4 (1) Chronological collection of material distributed by G.S.S.A., February 1938.
bMS 386/4 (2) Chronological collection of material distributed by G.S.S.A., April 1938.
bMS 386/4 (3) Chronological collection of material distributed by G.S.S.A., August-December, 1938.
bMS 386/4 (4) Chronological collection of material distributed by G.S.S.A., February-May, 1939.
bMS 386/4 (5) Chronological collection of material distributed by G.S.S.A., June-August, 1939.
bMS 386/4 (6) Chronological collection of material distributed by G.S.S.A., September 1939-May 1940.
bMS 386/4 (7) Chronological collection of material distributed by G.S.S.A., June-September 1940.
bMS 386/4 (8) Chronological collection of material distributed by G.S.S.A., November 1940-May 1941.
bMS 386/4 (9) "List of Gold," record of fund drive of Universalist General Convention, 1919.
bMS 386/4 (10) Friendship offering.
bMS 386/4 (11) Contricutions to G.S.S.A. through Unified Appeal.
bMS 386/4 (12) Institutes.
bMS 386/4 (13) Newspaper clippings.
bMS 386/4 (14) Buttons and badges.
bMS 386/4 (15) Reports and minutes of meetings between G.S.S.A. and Universalist Publishing House.
bMS 386/4 (16) Other organizations and branches of the Universalist Church of America.
bMS 386/4 (17) Use of American and Christian flags.
bMS 386/4 (18) Dissolution and merger of G.S.S.A.
bMS 386/4 (19) Unidentified papers.