QM/Ph/YM. Yearly Meeting business and committees
Record Group Term
Identifier: QM/Ph/YM
YEARLY MEETING: A large autonomous body of Quakers, which meets for several days once a year. In theory, its decisions are binding on the monthly and quarterly meetings within its jurisdiction and on the committees and staff which carry out the work of the yearly meeting. It meets annually to conduct business, formulate the discipline, receive reports and concerns from its constituent meetings, review the state of the Society, and communicate with other yearly meetings and non-Quaker organizations.
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Philadelphia General Meeting (1946-1954) Records
Collection — Othertype SW/Phg
Identifier: QM-Phg
Overview
Records of Philadelphia General Meeting, an annual meeting of members of both Philadelphia Yearly Meetings from 1946-1954. Also includes minutes, correspondence, and other records of joint committees involved in the process of the reunification of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting .
Dates:
1933-1955
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Administrative Council and its predecessors (including General Secretary Offices)
Collection — Othertype SW/Phy/325
Identifier: QM-Phy-325
Overview
The administrative structure of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting has been re-worked a number of times. This finding aid describes administrative records and office files, primarily from the early 20th century to the present -- from the time when the Hicksite and Orthodox Yearly Meetings first began to employ paid staff to handle administrative matters. Today these functions are grouped under the auspices of General Services. This finding aid also describes the records of the General...
Dates:
1829-2005
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Joint Committee on the Religious Life of Our Society (1944-1950)
Collection — Othertype SW/Phy/507
Identifier: QM-Phy-507
Overview
In 3mo 1944, Rufus Jones published an article, "Are We Ready," in Friends Intelligencer. In response to his concern for deepening the spiritual life of the Religious Society of Friends, members of both the Race Street and Arch Street Philadelphia Yearly Meetings gathered six months later in the meeting house at 15th and Race Streets. Records include minutes, correspondence, and publications.
Dates:
1944-1950
