Ser. C/03 Standing Committees
Scope and Contents
After fiduciary responsibility and management authority was assigned to the Board of Managers in 1910, the Board created Standing Committees. The Committees were to report to the Executive Committee and the Board of Managers. The first standing committees were Executive, Finance, Trusts, Household, Property, Instruction, Libraries, Museums and Laboratories, Nominating, and Auditors. Additional briefly serving committees were: Committee to engross the Constitution for the proposed institution was established in 1865 and laid down in 1876; General Committee was formed in 1867 to appoint and attend conferences designed to create interest in stock subscriptions for Swarthmore College. A similar local committee of stockholders was appointed in 1864 to solicit subscriptions in Philadelphia. The Furnishing Committee was established in 1869 to oversee the procurement of furniture for the College buildings.
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