Coordinating Committee, 1937-1942

File — Box: 1, Folder: 5

Staff Only

Scope and Content

From the Collection:

This is a collection of inactive Xavier University committee records. The collection includes records for both ad hoc and standing committees. A number of topics are represented in the assembled documents which are arranged alphabetically by committee name.

Dates

Creation: 1937-1942

Creator

From the Collection: Xavier University (Cincinnati, Ohio) (Organization)

Biographical / Historical

In a letter he wrote on June 5, 1937, Edward VonderHaar, Xavier's Director of Publicity, speaks of the Coordinating Committee as having just been created. It seems to have been discontinued during the Second World War and was not revived afterwards.

It was made up of representatives of the organizations affiliated with Xavier University and St. Xavier High School. At one point, it was suggested that the Jesuit Retreat League be asked to join. This does not seem to have happened. According to its constitution the object of the committee "shall be to bring together the various associations affiliated with Xavier University and St. Xavier High School for mutual cooperation and the more effective furthering of activities inaugurated by one or more of the several associations the better to promote Jesuit education." In particular, the committee was to prevent conflicts in the scheduling of activities and events. Its members were drawn from friends, alums and administrators of both institutions.