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Mrs. Corrie A. Haynes
First Vice President

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Mrs. Lillian E. Ross
Second Vice President

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Mrs. Eleanor W. Boyd
Recording Secretary

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Mrs. Bessie B. Richardson
Corresponding Secretary

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Mrs. Nadine Wilson
Financial Secretary

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Mrs. Mary J.R. Otis
Treasurer

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Mrs. C. Gwendolyn Colvin
Northeast Sectional Director

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Mrs. Theola Moore
Southeast Sectional Director

HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN,
INCORPORATED

The National Association of University Women is the link between women college graduates and the fulfillment of the ideals of creativity, responsibility and involvement.

The Purposes Are-

• to sponsor, promote and conduct educational activities designed to produce a closer union and fellowship among university women, to raise educational achievement and standards in universities, colleges, and institutions of higher learning; to stimulate academic and
intellectual attainment; and to engage in constructive work in education, civic activities, and human relations;

• to sponsor, promote and conduct conferences, seminars, symposiums and other meetings on a national, sectional or local level for the purpose of achieving and advancing the purposes aforesaid;

• to cooperate with other groups, associations, public or private agencies which may be concerned with community problems, cultural interests, educational and world problems:

• to promote the improvement of education, and when appropriate, to issue public statements concerning the quality of education;

• to cooperate with and assist other organizations, institutions, agencies and bodies both public and private, on a national, sectional and local level in promoting academic and intellectual attainment and to improve the quality and standards in universities, colleges and institutions of higher learning;

• to encourage and assist in the development and
establishment of research programs and to conduct or sponsor research pertaining to the standards and quality of universities, colleges and institutions of higher learning;

• to sponsor, award, promote and fund one or more
National Fellowships for Doctoral Study and to sponsor award, promote and fund scholarships and grants for undergraduate and graduate study on a national, sectional and/or local level;

• to publish, sponsor and disseminate literature and materials pertaining to higher education, academic programs and intellectual and academic achievement and opportunities;

• to formulate and disseminate opinions and information pertaining to public issues concerning the subject of education on a national, sectional or local level and to
to formulate, express and disseminate opinions and information concerning legislation, proposed legislation, or rules, regulations or policies which affect or may affect the quality of standards of higher education or of intellectual or academic achievement on a national, sectional or local level.

Women who have served as National Presidents are:
*Mrs. Lucy D. Slowe (1924-1929); *Mrs. Juanita H.
Thomas (1929-1933); *Mrs. Vivian J. Cook (1933-1937); *Mrs. Helen I. Grosley (1937-1939); Dr. Hilda A. Davis (1939-1943), (1957-1961); *Mrs. Alice Taylor Chandler (1943-1945); *Dr. Flemmie Kittrell (1945-1949); *Mrs.

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