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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 69 Collections and/or Records:

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Orthodox) Records: Foreign Missionary Association (1882-1950)

 Collection — Othertype HV/Phy/830
Identifier: QM-Phy-830
Scope and Contents

Records of the Foreign Missionary Association of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1921-1953, include its Minutes (1882-1921) as well as the records of its Executive Board (1883-1923), International Committee (1918-1924), Young Women's Auxiliary and other Miscellaneous reports and correspondence (1883-1923). Also included are records from the Committee's Branches at Downingtown, Germantown, Haverford, Moorestown, Philadelphia and West Chester Meetings.

Dates: 1882-1923

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Orthodox) Records: Mission Board (1923-1956)

 Collection — Othertype HV/Phy/836
Identifier: QM-Phy-836
Scope and Contents Records of the Mission Board of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting at Haverford include the minutes, financial accounts and other records from the time of the groups inception in 1923 until 1956, as well as those of its branches at Germantown, Haverford and Moorestown Monthly Meetings and other miscellaneous documents, including the extensive diary collection of missionary Edith F. Sharpless, which begins in 1908 but provides a thorough chronicle of her experience with the Mission Board in...
Dates: 1923-1956

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Orthodox) Records: Teas Committee (1896-1932)

 Collection — Othertype HV/Phy/582
Identifier: QM-Phy-582
Scope and Contents

Records of the Yearly Meeting Teas Committee begin with the group's appointment in 1896 and consist chiefly of the financial records kept by Treasurer J. Henry Scattergood. Records pertaining to duties of the Committee following its discontinuation (1932- 1948) 1948) are among the Miscellaneous Papers.

Dates: 1896-1948

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Orthodox) Records: Visitation Committee

 Collection — Othertype HV/Phy/111
Identifier: QM-Phy-111
Scope and Contents

Records of the Visitation Committee of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Delaware County, PA), 1922-1924.

Dates: 1922-1924

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Ad Hoc Committee for Financing the Youth and Family Facility at Burlington Meetinghouse (1988-1995)

 Collection — Othertype HV/Phy/255
Identifier: QM-Phy-255
Scope and Contents

Records of the Ad-Hoc Committee for Financing the Youth and Family Facility at Burlington Meetinghouse held at Haverford include the group's Minutes (1990-1995), Correspondence (1988-1993), Financial Records (1989-1992), records pertaining to Keast and Hood Engineers (1992-1993) and its Operations and Use Subcommittee (1993-1994).

Dates: 1987-1995

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Ad Hoc Working Party on the Abolition of Torture (1976)

 Collection — Othertype SW/Phy/792
Identifier: QM-Phy-792
Overview

An Ad Hoc group to investigate the widespread use of torture around the world was appointed after Yearly Meeting in 1975. In 1976, Arthur W. Clark reported on its work and presented a program on Amnesty International. On the suggestion of Kay Camp, Yearly Meeting recommended that Representative Meeting establish a Working Party on the Abolition of Torture.

Dates: 1976

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: AIDS Working Group (1992-2000)

 Collection — Othertype SW/Phy/769
Identifier: QM-Phy-769
Overview The AIDS Working Group of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting began in 1992 as a response to the growing severity of the AIDS epidemic. The main focus of the group, organized under the title of "A Quaker Ministry to Persons With AIDS," was to visit those terminally ill with AIDS to provide solace, friendship, and spiritual counseling. The AIDS Working Group also organized the Quaker presence at the Philadelphia AIDS Walk and held retreats and seminars for caregivers of AIDS patients. The group...
Dates: 1991-2000

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Annual Sessions

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Phy-001
Overview A general meeting for Friends in the Delaware Valley area was first convened at Burlington in 1681. The first general meeting held in Philadelphia was in 1683, and in 1685, it was agreed that the meetings in New Jersey and Pennsylvania should be combined into one yearly meeting with alternate sessions at Philadelphia and at Burlington. The great Separation among Philadelphia Friends into Orthodox and Hicksite branches occurred at the Yearly Meeting of 1827. Through the course of the early...
Dates: 1662 - 2022

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Bequests Committee (1976-2004)

 Collection — Othertype SW/Phy/054
Identifier: QM-Phy-054
Overview The Committee on Bequests was established by Representative Meeting September 23, 1976 with instructions to review requests for financial aid from three bequests: The Longstreth Fund (given by Emily P. Longstreth), the Troemner Fund (given by S. Edna Troemner), and the Keeney Bequest (given by Virginia Drysdale Keeney), and to recommend such appropriations as seemed best in the Committee's judgment to the Representative Meeting for approval by that body. The committee continues to 2004 under...
Dates: 1979-1992