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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 Records: Prison Service Committee (1958-1976)

 Collection — Othertype SW/Phy/790
Identifier: QM-Phy-790
Overview Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's Prison Service Committee of Southern New Jersey was organized in the mid 1960s. It focused its activities on the reform of female and juvenile justice. Members of the Committee developed a successful Friendly Visitors Program, staffed by volunteers, and a volunteer Probation Counselor Program. The Committee was also involved in lobbying efforts, maintained a speakers' bureau, and published a newsletter, "No Bars Hold." Records include minutes of the Prison...
Dates: 1958-1975

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Quaker Fund for Indigenous Communities and its predecessors (Indian Committee, Friendly Association) (1795- )

 Collection — Othertype HV/Phy/838
Identifier: QM-Phy-838
Scope and Contents The records of the Indian Committee include minutes, financial materials, correspondence, reports, journals, scrapbooks, papers, maps, lists, transcripts, miscellaneous projects, published items, film, video and other material. Major topics discussed in the records include Friends' 18th and 19th century visits to various First Nations peoples (Oneida people, Genesanguhta people, Stockbridge people, for example), the settlement at Tunesassa and later boarding school (Friends Indian School),...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1795-2007

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Religious Education Committees

 Collection — Othertype HV/Phy/576
Identifier: QM-Phy-576
Scope and Contents Records of the PYM Religious Education Committee (REC) include the committee's Minutes (1923-1983), Section Minutes (1905-1970), the minutes of its Advisory Committee (1956-1959), Executive Committee (1922-1993), Representative Meeting (1986-1989), and Committee on Worship and Ministry (1984-1987), its Correspondence (1943-1956), Conference Papers (1948-1988), Financial Records (1863-1971) and Publications (1975-2000), among other resource materials and miscellaneous papers. The REC...
Dates: 1863-2000

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Social Order Committee and its predecessors (1917-1969)

 Collection — Othertype SW/Phy/820
Identifier: QM-Phy-820
Overview A Social Order Committee was established by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Orthodox) in 1917 to "consider the part which the Religious Society of Friends should take in the present day application of efforts to promote the Kingdom of God on Earth, particularly as it relates to social, political, and industrial conditions." In 1927 it began to more formally cooperate with a similar committee of the Hicksite Yearly Meeting in much of its work; the two shared a Secretary, David S. Richie, after...
Dates: 1917-1969

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Social Service Committee (1936-1964)

 Collection — Othertype SW/Phy/805
Identifier: QM-Phy-805
Overview

The Social Service Committee was appointed in 1936, continuing the work of the Committee on Philanthropic Labor of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite). Primarily educational in nature, its work included providing information to local Quaker meetings on social service issues. The Committee was renamed the Committee on Social Welfare in 1964.

Dates: 1936-1964

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Standing Nominating Committee

 Collection — Othertype HV/Phy/110
Identifier: QM-Phy-110
Scope and Contents Records of Standing Nominating Committee of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting among the "Papers (1950-1951)" described below include minutes from the Committee's annual sessions and lists of officers in other Committees (PYM and a few outside) who are scheduled for new appointments. The Committees included in this collection are the Committee on Arrangements, Friends Council on Education, Committee on Epistles, Extension Committee, Committee on Family Relationships, Friends Committee on...
Dates: 1950-1951

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Support and Outreach Committee (1998-2015)

 Collection — Othertype SW/Phy/330
Identifier: QM-Phy-330
Scope and Contents

Records of the Support and Outreach Standing Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1997-2003.

Dates: 1997-2003

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Women's Problems Group (1917-1969)

 Collection — Othertype HV/Phy/821
Identifier: QM-Phy-821
Scope and Contents

Records of the Women's Problem Group of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1949-1961.

Dates: 1949-1961

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Worship and Care Standing Committee (1998-2015)

 Collection — Othertype SW/Phy/410
Identifier: QM-Phy-410
Scope and Contents

Records of the Worship and Care Standing Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1998-2003.

Dates: 1998-2003