Guide to the Records of the Australian Student Christian Movement
MS 980
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Collection Summary
- Creator
- Australian Student Christian Movement
- Title
- Records of the Australian Student Christian Movement
- Date Range
- 1895-1997
- Collection Number
- MS 980
- Extent
- 40.95 metres (267 boxes at Hume 2 + 1 medium folio box at HW + 1 large folio box at HW)
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Special Collections (Manuscripts)
Introduction
Scope and Contents
The Australian Student Christian Movement, until 1913 known as the Australian Student Christian Union, is the Australian branch of the World Student Christian Federation (W.S.C.F.) It is active mainly in Universities but also in schools and teacher training colleges.
The records held are the national level records of the A.S.C.M. Two-thirds of the collection consists of correspondence, the greater part being to and from the presiding General Secretary (until 1907 the presiding Travelling Secretary.)
The other third consists of minutes and reports relating to National Executive, General Committee, Business Convention, State Councils, Schools and Conferences. Included also are the records of the Student Volunteer Movement (S.V.M.) 1896-1919, and the records of the Foreign Service Fellowship, which appears to succeed to S.V.M., beginning in 1927.
The remaining material consists of records of special committees and commissions, finance, visits from prominent overseas speakers, W.S.C.F. reports, memoranda and memorabilia.
Conditions Governing Access
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2085233) for the access conditions.
Conditions Governing Use
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Preferred Citation
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Records of the Australian Student Christian Movement, National Library of Australia, MS 980, [box number and series and/or file number]'.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The initial transfer of these records by the General Secretary of the A.S.C.M. was in 1958. Removal from Melbourne to the National Library in Canberra took place in 1963.
Item Descriptions
Class. Original consignment
Series 1. Reports etc. of christian unions in all states.
Series 4. General correspondence, 1896-1953
Consists mainly of letters to and from the presiding General Secretary of the A.S.C.U. and A.S.C.M. (up to 1907 the presiding Travelling Secretary). Correspondence for years 1909-1921 missing.
Class. Additional consignment (1)
Series 1. General Report
Wallet folder: Reports of Christian Unions in all States, 1948 (File 1) - Box 92
Actually contains two 1948 Newsletters of ASCM in the University of Melbourne
Bound volume "Statistics Notes 1960-" (File 2) - Box 92
Entries on some 57p
Information on statistics and activities in universities, schools etc
Minutes of General Committee Exec, 14 February 1967 - 6 December 1967 (File 3) - Box 93
Executive only
Minutes of General Committee Executive, 4 August 1959, 30 April - 22 October 1963, 1966-1968 (File 4) - Box 93
Constitution of the ASCM revised at January 1964
'Minutes of General Committee Exec', 1958-1960, 1964-1968 (File 5) - Box 93
Report of General Committee to Business Executive, Armidale
Constitution of ASCM revised to January 1965
Minutes of Meeting of Board of Directors 1 April 1965
Minutes of Joint Meeting of National Exec & National Schools Committee 29 July 1965
Exec 13 December 1965
Constitution of ASCM in Schools revised to January 1966
Constitution revised to January 1960
Various: 26p of bound volume entered and other papers (File 6) - Box 94
Memorabilia 1929
ASCM Summer Conference & Convention, Toowoomba, January 4-12, 1929
Student Christian Movement Books 1929
Material on SU Christian Union 1929
Series 1/A Item 8. ASCM in Uni of NSW. Minutes (File 2) - Box 95
ASCM in University of New South Wales 1960, 1961
Series 2. Minutes, General Committee and Executive
General Committee Executive - Minutes (File 1) - Box 96
Begins with 18 leaves listing office bearers including office bearers of SCMs in Universities, 1942-1946
General Committee 1949, 1953, 1955
Series 4. General Correspondence, 1954
McCutcheon, R [4 December 57 Frank Engel to Rosalie re taking up SCM job second week in July 1958. 'Margaret Bearlin has agreed to join the staff as from February'] (File 18) - Box 112
Item 8. ASCM in Univ of NSW. 1960, 1961 General Correspondence S' Includes: (File 1) - Box 115
19 September 1960 letter to Sec ASCM from ASCM in the University of Tasmania, listing Members of Committee
28 September 1960 letter to 'The Secretary, ASCM, University of NSW', from ASCM in the University of Queensland, listing Members of Committee
Item 50-H (File 2) - Box 115
Includes
1939 receipts for payments made by ASCM, book orders etc.. All receipts are from booksellers etc in London
Item 59 C - W (File 3) - Box 115
Includes folder labelled 'Sydney University SCM Correspondence 1947' Actually 1944 - 1947
Item 61-62 (File 5) - Box 115
Includes
Folder 'SCM in the University of Sydney, Correspondence 1948-1949'
Almost entirely 1949
Items 62-63-64 (File 6) - Box 115
Includes
Folder 'ASCM in the University of Sydney, Correspondence 1949-1950'
Intercollegiate sample correspondence 1956 B-W (File 9) - Box 115
Correspondence with Joyce Leigh, Literature Secretary, ASCM, 182 Collins Street, Melbourne re Intercollegiate subscriptions and receipts
A (File 1) - Box 116
Includes
Australian Presbyterian Mission, Korea. Circular letter New Years Day 1965.
Korean Student Christian Movement. KSCM Report for 1964.
Adelaide University SCM, 1964-1965 (File 11) - Box 116
Correspondence and Minutes, including Minutes of Committee Meetings and of Precessional Conference 5-7 February 1965
Also issues of ICHTHUS. University and ATC Student Christian Movement. Six issues, 1965 - Vol 1 No 7 April 1965, Vol 1 No 9 June 1965, Vol 1 No 10 July 1965, Vol 2 No 1 August 1965, Vol 2 No 3 October 1965, Vol 2 No 4 Christmas 1965
Adelaide University SCM, 1967 (File 12) - Box 116
Correspondence, Precessional and Committee Minutes and four issues of ICHTHUS - Vol 3 No 2 March 1967, Vol 3 No 2 [sic] April 1967, Vol 3 No 4 June 1967, Vol 3 No 5 July 1967. All sent to ASCM National Office
Adelaide University SCM, 1966 (File 13) - Box 116
Minutes and some six issues of ICHTHUS - Vol 2 No 5 February 1966. Vol 2 No 6 April 1966, Vol 2 No 7 May 1966, Vol 2 No 8 June 1966, Vol 2 No 9 July/August 1966, Vol 3 no 1
ASCM Aims (File 1) - Box 117
Mainly 1961-1962, 64-65 correspondence; also 1939, 1940 documents
Top paper - ASCM. Business Convention, Mittagong 1965. Aim & Basis Proposal
ASCM Questionnaire, 1963 (File 4) - Box 117
In preparation for General committee 1963
Also contains - ASCM Business Convention 1962. Notes on proposed change in membership clause of the ASCM
ASCM - WSCF Correspondence 1951 (File 5) - Box 117
Includes envelope of correspondence labelled 'Australian Student Christian Movement.
Reports from ASCM Representatives (Bronwen Murdoch, Peter Bailey, Leila Giles
(?), P Farrer, A Schroder and anon. 1951 WSCF Executives & Study Chalet)
Australian Christian Youth Commission, 1953 (File 6) - Box 117
Includes pink page headed 'General Correspondence. Entries A-W (Partial) 1953'
Australian Council of Churches, 1965, 1967-1968 (File 7) - Box 117
ACC, particularly Division of Mission papers
Includes Doris E Hess, Charles Granston Richards 'Report of Survey of Literature
Development Possibilities in the South West Pacific, undertaken in
November/December 1967 at the request of the Pacific Conference of Churches' CLF
Lausanne. January 1968, 12p and appendices
Also ACYC, ACFOA
MS 980, 1963-1964 (File 9) - Box 117
Correspondence of SCM Bookroom, 57 Swanston Street (1963) and SCM Bookhouse,
231 Faraday Street, Carlton (1964) with booksellers etc
August General Committee, 1969 (File 11) - Box 117
Correspondence mainly re delegates meals and accommodation. Includes list of those attending and the people they stayed with
Australian National University SCM, 1966 (File 14) - Box 117
Includes copy of AMPELOS, the Vine. The Newsletter of the Student Christian Movement in the ANU. n.d. [1966?]
Bookhouse, 1966 (File 6) - Box 118
Mainly copies of Commonwealth of Australia, Department of Customs & Excise, Form 11.
Listings of books imported. [No titles]
Bookhouse Correspondence, 1967-1968 (File 7) - Box 118
Correspondence
Includes 'Circular to RBC members' [RBC = Religious Book Club] ASCM October 1968. 'We are sorry to have to say that the reduction in scope of ASCM Headquarters means that we cannot any longer handle Religious Book Club (now SCM Book Club) subscriptions. Many of you have been subscribers through your membership of ASCM or your interest in SCM Bookhouse and you probably realised that any profits from handling benefited the funds of the Movement. We hope that you will continue to belong to this SCM Press scheme because we support the idea of the new series. It will be very easy for you to continue, even without us.
The Presbyterian Bookroom, Melbourne, whose manager formerly managed our Bookhouse and who dealt generously with us over dispensing of the stock, has offered a donation of $1.00 to Movement funds for every one of our members who transfers (If you all do so, ASCM will receive about $180). You will realise from SCM Press pamphlets that the new series will be slightly more expensive: Australian price, including postage, will be $4.85.
With our thanks and best wishes
Australian Student Christian Movement'
Bookhouse Correspondence, 1966-1968 (File 8) - Box 118
[All Bookhouse incoming correspondence is addressed to ASCM, 57 Swanston Street, Melbourne]
British SCM, 1953 (File 11) - Box 118
One letter, 4 September 1953. from Miss F Paton, SCM, London, to Rev Frank Engel
Business Conference: Credentials (File 13) - Box 118
Business Convention 1968
Includes listing of leaders and members, ASCM National Conference, Sydney, 1968
Business Convention Perth, 1969 (File 14) - Box 118
Includes list of substantive motions. Also Secretary's [?] note pad headed 'Running commentary'. Includes notes of motions.
C (File 1) - Box 119
1953, and one 1950 letter
Includes letter of 12 June 1953 from Commonwealth National Library asking for copies of ASCM reports and publications. Has note 'We have your Reports, 1924 to date'.
Also: Report of Discussions Between Representatives of the ASCM and Church Leaders. Held at St Pauls Cathedral, Melbourne on 27 October 1953, with covering letter from Tom Coates
C - General, 1967 (File 3) - Box 119
Includes correspondence with individuals wanting back numbers of Intercollegiate and Crux. Intercollegiate replaced by Crux in 1961
26 June 1967, Joyce Leigh to Mr R Lucy, School of Political Science, University of New South Wales: 'We are at present clearing some cupboards and it would be fairly simple to collect copies of most numbers of Intercollegiate at least to 1940'
Also circular of Charles Strong (Australian Church) Memorial Trust. Conscientious Objection Advisory Committee (Vietnam?)
Conference 1968, 1968 (File 11) - Box 119
Many letters of thanks after January Conference in Sydney; and general correspondence
Conference estimates (File 12) - Box 119
Papers on Conference costing with references to Conferences in 1961, 1963-1967
Conference Lists (File 14) - Box 119
Papers from 'Conference Officers-File II.
Papers relating to the organisation of Conferences with references to Conferences in 1958, 1961-1965, 1967. Includes 5p check list of questions relating to facilities and use of a Conference site - Arrival, Transport, sleeping, Eating. Washing & Cleaning, Regulations, Equipment, School Rooms, Directory etc
Conference Officers (File 15) - Box 119
Conference Officers File I
Documents dated 1955, 1958, 1960-1961, 1963-1965
Includes:
WSCF Stall Report, National Conference 31 December 1959 - 7 January 1960
Office Routine for Conference Treasurer 16.4.58
Transport Officer, Armidale 14.4.58
Morning Prayer 1963
Conference Library
Hostess
Head Waiters, Mittagong 1965
The Silence Period 1961, 1964
Chapel Keepers Duties
Accommodation
Conference Routine (File 16) - Box 119
Conference Routine file
Includes:
Copy of Report on the running of Missionary Service Stall, Conference at St Peter's College, S August 1955
WSCF Stall National Conference, Armidale 1963
Various Conference Routines - Treasurer, Transport, Accommodation, Jobs on
Conference site before Conference begins, Things to take to Conference, Study Circle
Allocations, Name Tags and Ribbons, Special Offices, Preparing for Conference - February to August, September, October, November
Conference Study, 1965 (File 19) - Box 119
1965 listing of distribution of Conference hand-bills, posters, enrolment forms etc with the numbers to each Branch, (Amounts to a listing of ASCM Branches)
Confidential - for Gen Sec (File 1) - Box 120
Notes compiled by John Wells for staff visiting Newcastle and Armidale
Consolidation Development 1964-1966, 1966 (File 2) - Box 120
Includes minutes of meeting of National Schools Committee, 21 February 1966
Covers meetings of SCM Consolidation & Development Committee. Question is development in schools
Consolidation Development, 1964-1966, 1965, 1966, 1969 (File 3) - Box 120
Includes July 1965 confidential paper for National Executive, and National Schools Committee 'Documents Relating to the Nature and Possible Future Development of Australian Student Christian Movement in Schools'. Contents: 1. Extract from statement by Business Convention 1936. 2. Working paper discussed at General Committee 1963. 3. Unofficial paper on Nature of ASCM's by National School Secretry, February 1965. 4. Report of formation of British christian Education Movement, March 1965. 5. Unofficial paper by General Secretary, March 1965. 6. National Consolidation Program 1965. 7. Financial schedule by Mr R Syme. 8. Notes by R Syme on National Consolidation Program July 1965. 9. Unofficial comments on National Consolidation Program by National Chairman July 1965. A composite document prepared at the request of the National Executive of ASCM for discussion at a joint meeting of the Executive with the National Schools Committee on Thursday July 24th 1965. To be read in conjunction with 'National Consolidation Program' and draft schedule of costs by Mr R Syme
Constitution, 1956-1959, 1962 (File 4) - Box 120
Includes:
Constitution of the Australian Student Christian Movements. Revised to January 1932 (amended 1940). Printed
Suggested Constitution for ASCM in Teachers Colleges and Universities, n.d.
Constitution of Student Christian Movement of Great Britain & Ireland, July 1929
Constitution of the ASCM in Schools, 1961
Circular by Frank Engel re 'proposed constitution by which the SCM in schools will be established as a separate part of the Movement' n.d.
Copy of constitution of the ASCM, revised to January 1952. Printed 8p. With amendments
Same, annotated 'Revised to January 1958'
28 March 1962 circular to State and District Councils of the ASCM listing proposed amendments to the ASCM constitution
Constitution amendments, 1965 (File 8) - Box 120
One document - Constitution of the Australian Student Christian Movement. Revised to January 1965
Constitution of the ASCM 1966, 1966 (File 9) - Box 120
One document - Constitution of the Australian Student Christian Movement. Revised to January 1966
Constitution of local SCMs, 1941-1967 (File 10) - Box 120
Constitutions of various local SCMs. Includes most Universities, Teachers Colleges
Corporation and pre conference General Committee, 1969 (File 11) - Box 120
Rough notes of motions lost andcarried
Also list of those attending
Council treasurers, 1967 (File 4) - Box 121
Correspondence with Area Council treasurers etc. Receipts of payments, meeting of quotas, circulars etc
Crux, 1968 (File 8) - Box 121
Includes:
Intercollegiate & Crux Catalogue. Lists date and number of copies ASCM Crux Stencils, 12 May 1968, listing subscribers by State, 12p
Crux, 1964-1966 (File 9) - Box 121
Contains 24 September 65 letter from J Horner, Hon Sec Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship, wanting 8 copies of June-July 1965 issue of Crux 'containing several excellent articles on Aborigines in Australia'.' 'All of the six contributors on Aborigines are personally known to us in our Fellowship, except Frank Engel, whose militant re-statements of basic issues, as from NMCA, haved been adopted throughout the Aboriginal advancement movement. All expound sound ideas for the movement'
Crux 1966 (File 11) - Box 121
Some listing of subscription totals. Also lists of 'Review copies for Crux' viz books to be reviewed
Crux circulation, 1967 (File 12) - Box 121
Correspondence, review copies, free issues, subscriptions
Crux free lists 1966 (File 13) - Box 121
Listings of those entitled to free copies of Crux for a year - all subscribers of ten pounds or more
Day of Prayer (File 3) - Box 122
Yearly 1936-1949
Day of Prayer for Students
Circulars, forms of service, notes for addresses, correspondence
Day of Prayer for Students, 1965 (File 6) - Box 122
Includes envelope containing printed leaflets re Day of Prayer for Students 1939, 1945-46, 1952-55, 1957-62
Day of Prayer 1957, 1957 (File 7) - Box 122
Correspondence. Includes 'Order of service for broadcasting by the ABC 9.30 a.m.
Sunday 23 June 1967
Day of Prayer 1960, 1950-1953 (File 8) - Box 122
Correspondence, circulars, order of service, ABC service etc
Ecumenical UNESCO Scholarships, 1963 (File 5) - Box 123
Papers on Union Theological Seminary, Program of Advanced Religious Studies and invitation for nominations for the year 1963-1964
Education Kit, 1966-1967 (File 6) - Box 123
Roneod papers, presumably forwarded to ASCM, covering Teachers and Teacher education, Control of Education, Equality of Opportunity, Constricting Factors etc. Feature Henry Schoenheimer
Education study, 1967 (File 7) - Box 123
Refers to 123/6 papers above as prepared by an ASCM subcommittee as 'educational kits'. Includes - Report and Recommendations on Australian Education, and correspondence with Margaret Bearlin
ENGEL, 1953 (File 8) - Box 123
Frank G Engel. Report on Visit to Republic of Korea, November 1953
Also letters from Frank Engel to Gwenda Madden, Headquarters Secretary
F - General, 1965-1966 (File 11) - Box 123
Includes 17 June 66 letter from Roy K Forward, Dept of Govt, University of Sydney re his editing of a book on conscription and wanting any SCM statements. Joyce Leigh replies 'The only statement I remember is one made just before I joined the staff, at Armidale Conference in 1954'. Sends extract from Armidale Express 13 January 54 'National Service Training Attacked'
F - General, 1965 (File 12) - Box 123
Contains one letter only, 22 November 65, from Joan Coates of Australian Frontier re 'Dr Stoller's proposed survey'.
Field Reports, 1967 (File 13) - Box 123
Reports to Executive of visits of Gen Sec and Field Sees mainly to capitals and Armidale Some 17 reports
Field Reports, 1966 (File 14) - Box 123
Roneod reports of visits by Gen Sec and reports of State and Field Secs, also Reports on ASCM in Schools Some 18 reports Includes Joyce Leigh, 8 November 1966, Report from the Home Field, 4p. Reviews position of the Movement
Friends of the ASCM, 1960 (File 18) - Box 123
Relates to first Newsletter for Friends of the ASCM, 17p.\ Includes Report of Meeting of Senior Branch National Committee in Adelaide n.d 1960? - 'In 1956 senior branch in S.A. slowly died': Used in Report to General Committee 1961
Future Developments, 1964 1966 1969 (File 19) - Box 123
Includes: National Consolidated Program 1969
General Committee 1968 (File 3) - Box 124
Correspondence, preparatory circulars, responses rom some Area Councils, accommodation arrangements
General Committee, 1966 (File 4) - Box 124
Correspondence with those attending, Agenda, Resolutions from ASCM in Schools
General Correspondence 1958 (File 5) - Box 124
Includes papers on costs of moving Office and costs of moving Bookroom and sketch plans of floor areas
General Correspondence - Miscellaneous, 1954-1959 (File 6) - Box 124
Includes: maintenance and tenancy matters on Clyde House; move from there expected at end of September 1958. September 1958 document 'The Australian Student Christian Movement in Teachers Colleges. A Report for State Councils and Others Interested in SCM Work in Teachers Colleges'. 4p roneod
General Correspondence - Miscellaneous, 1952, 1954-1957 (File 7) - Box 124
Includes: papers on 1956, 1957 Day of Prayer for Students; copy of Newsletter to Members and Friends of ASCM - features David Read Mission to the University of Adelaide giving titles of his addresses and student numbers attending addresses and discussion groups; two copies of printed leaflet ASCM 1896-1956, 4p, 'On the occasion of the 50th Anniversary, a record and assessment of the work of the Movement was made in a small booklet still available, called Other Men Laboured. To that record we now add a few major points, and go on to set targets for our advance in the next decade'
General Correspondence - Miscellaneous 1921-1923, 1922-1924 (File 8) - Box 124
Correspondence of the Literature Secretary re guarantors should sales from an SCM publication of a book not meet costs. Books involved: Rev K T Henderson, Christian Tradition and Australian Outlook; Miss G Swinburne, Womanhood in the Life of Nations (published at the request of the National Board of the YWCA), 293 copies sold, 423 unsold, also lists booksellers
General Correspondence - Miscellaneous 1949-1952, 1944, 1947-1952 (File 9) - Box 124
Mainly circulars to SCM Presidents, also General Committee, State Council Secretaries, Intercollegiate correspondents 1948-1951. Includes Circular to SCM Presidents 7 December 1949 from Frank Engel 'Having arrived at Headquarters - at last!' Raises questions of the "Movement's main reason for existence and the chief thing which it should be trying to 'get across' to students'. "If you want some ideas of mine on this kind of subject you will find them in the November Intercollegiate". Also a copy of - The ASCM 1951. An Account of Work among Australian Students\td\being a letter from the General Secretary. With amendment. Printed, 16pp. Also gives Officers and Secretaries of the Movement, Officers of the ASCM State Councils; Aim & Basis of the Movement
"The ASCM 1951
Aim and Basis of the Movements
The aim of the Movement is:
To confront students with Jesus Christ and His Gospel
To lead them to commit themselves to Him and His way of life
To help them to grow into His likeness and in the understanding of the Christian faith
To unite them in the fellowship if His Church and in the devotion of their whole lives to the service of the Kingdom of God
The Basis of the Movement is:
Faith in the living God - Father, Son and Holy Spirit - who makes
Himself known to us through the Scriptures and the life of the Church
The Australian Student Christian Movement welcomes into its fellowship of worship, study and service all students teachers and others who seek God and the truth by which to live
The membership of the Movement shall be open to those who have decided to follow Christ and to learn His way of life"
General Correspondence - Miscellaneous, 1940, 1944-1945, 1948-1952, 1956-1957 (mainly 1948) (File 10) - Box 124
Annual Reports, Presidents Reports and other reports of SCM Branches, and other papers descriptive of Branch activities
Includes: Univ of WA Minutes of Precessional Conference. ASCM in the University of Melbourne - The 53rd Annual Report, 28 July 1949; Leaflet - God and The Scientists World. 28th - 30th April [n.d.] [At Port Hacking - Univ of Syd SCM?] Chief speaker Mr K F Newman, Research Fellow in Philosophy at Adelaide University. His special study is the philosophy of the late Professor A N Whitehead of Harvard. Report by Roger Opie of a Political Conference 12-14 May 1950 sponsored by the University of Adelaide SCM, on the Christian and Communist cases re 'Blueprints for Democracy'
Governing Meetings of Movement, 1967 (File 12) - Box 124
Consideration of the role of Business Convention including multiple roneod copies of recommendations of a Sub-Committee - General Secretary (Peter Musgrove), Anthony Clunies Ross and Ray Elliott. Proposal to modify Business Convention or do away with it
Governing Meetings of Movement, 1967 (File 13) - Box 124
Governing Meetings of Movement
Includes 1967 letters to Ray Elliott on matter of Business Convention
Government Dept, 1966 (File 14) - Box 124
Includes request from National Library of Australia, 4 February 1966, for two copies of "the recent statement issued by the Movement and concerning the need for a negotiated settlement in Vietnam" and "any publications which may have been issued in connection with the national conference of the Movement, held in Geelong this week", Joyce Leigh writes on 15 February 1966 saying is sending "twp copies of our Vietnam statement, the Conference programme and one copy of the study book, Gospel and Community. "We should be grateful if you would give us a general ruling on publications. We usually send copies of the study book of our annual conference and of our twice yearly publication News of ASCM. Crux (formerly Intercollegiate) is sent to you six times yearly from the printers. Is it necessary for us to send occasional leaflets? Our correspondence files after some years go to Canberra and (after consulting with Miss Exley at Brighton) we are including in them newsletters published by local University Student Christian Movements"
Government Departments, 1965 (File 15) - Box 124
Includes
Letters from Don Gobbett, LMS Missionary, Bulawayo, Rhodesia; and Bethuel Kiplayat, WCC Ecumenical Action, Geneva; on position in Rhodesia and Unilateral Decision for Independence.
Invitation from Minister for Immigration, 9 September 65, to send a rep to sixteenth Australian Citizenship Convention
Government Departments, 1953 (File 17) - Box 124
Department of Immigration
Includes
22 September 53 letter to Sec on behalf of visit of Rev K H and Mrs Ting Contact also with Leader of the Opposition, Prime Ministers Department
Government Departments 1947-1952, 1947-1952 (File 18) - Box 124
Victorian Railways, External Affairs, Labour and National Service, External Territories, Immigration, Trade & Customs, Prime Ministers Department, Governor General
GRIBBEN Correspondence, 1965-1966 (File 19) - Box 124
Robert Gribben, Study Sec ASCM
Correspondence with Study Sec WSCF and with WCC. Copies of roneod statement of duties of Study Officer. Circulars to all Study Secs (ASCM)
H - General 1967 (File 3) - Box 125
Contains 26 January 67 letter from Prime Ministers Department acknowledging 'Statement adopted by business convention\td\at its annual meeting in Canberra, 12th January 1967'
Handover office, 1968, 1968 (File 6) - Box 125
Three page typescript document dated 28.10.68 with title 'Headquarters & Otherwise. FJL's present views on particular items'. Typed on reverse of ASCM Victorian
Council letterhead circular to Friends over the name of John Lang more
Headquarters, plans, etc, 1967 (File 7) - Box 125
Relates to projected move from 57 Swanston Street to Methodist Church Centre 130 Little Collins Street. [Did not take place?]
HOLMES, Margaret, 1948 (File 11) - Box 125
Relates to contributions to Testimonial for Margaret Holmes. Includes April 1948 circular giving biographical details of Margaret Holmes: 'acting General Secretary (1915-1919), then for some time as an honorary officer, and from 1924 till 1945 as Headquarters Secretary of the Movement \td\ Now \td\ still on the ASCM staff as World Student Relief Secretary'
Holy Communion, 1938 1959 1961-1968 (File 12) - Box 125
Includes correspondence of Doug Hobson, Gen Sec, mainly with diocesan Anglican bishops, particularly in 1962. Also includes 'The Practice of Inter-Communion and the Doctrine of the Church'. Student Christian Movement Press, 58 Bloomsbury Street, London WC1. Third Edition, November 1938. Printed 11pp
Hymnal - Reprint/orders, 1939, 1958-1966 (mainly 1964) (File 13) - Box 125
Includes list of Schools Branches 1964 re reprint of The Australian Student Hymnal
Intercollegiate and Federation Lists 1954-1957, 1956-1957 (File 6) - Box 126
Mainly one alphabetical sequence of subscribers including University Branches, Schools Branches, Bishops. Also Exchange lists, Federation lists
Intercollegiate 1948-1949, 1951-1952, 1948-1949 1951-1952 (File 7) - Box 126
Correspondence.
Includes two [Conference?] photographs
Joyce Leigh Presentation, 1969 (File 12) - Box 126
Includes circular letter of 25 June 1969 mentioning Joyce Leigh left at end of 1968.
Also includes list of contributors
K - General, 1966-1967 (File 15) - Box 126
Includes Korean Student Christian Movement Annual Report, 1966
K - General, 1966 (File 16) - Box 126
Contains only one letter - to J M F Relph (of Kent Brierley & Barraclough, Chartered Accountants
McCUTCHEON, R, 1965 (File 7) - Box 128
Re contributions to Rosalie McCutcheon Appeal: including list of contributors. Includes circular 13 September 1965 signed by Anthony Clunies Ross, Chairman ASCM: 'In September of this year Rosalie McCutcheon leaves her position on the field-staff of the ASCM. Rosalie has been a full time worker in or with the Movement over three periods - as a travelling secretary 1932 to 1934; as secretary of the Australian Committee of World Student Relief in the late forties and early fifties; and as resident secretary in Sydney for the last seven years. For a short period between her marriage and the death of her husband, Oliver McCutcheon, she served with him in India. She is now not far from normal retiring age'
Melbourne University, 1966 (File 8) - Box 128
Includes copies of University of Melbourne Student Christian Movement Newsletter - May June July August October 1966
Melbourne University, 1966 (File 9) - Box 128
Copies of Newsletter. Also Minutes of SCM Central Committee [Univ of Melb]; Financial Report 1966, Annual Report 1965-1966
Melbourne University SCM, 1964-1965, mainly 1965 (File 10) - Box 128
Newsletter 1965; SCM Membership & Fellowship 1964; Minutes of MUSCM Central Committee
Membership, 1924 1961-1964 (File 11) - Box 128
Papers mainly on membership clauses in Aim & Basis
Includes Student Christian Movement of Great Britain & Ireland, Aim & Basis of Movement (as adopted by the Movement in July 1950 and 1951] and Declaratory Statement (as adopted by the General Council December 1949, for certain specified purposes).
Also one page document - Outline study on Aim & Basis November 1948. Prepared by F G
Engel & J C Alexander [1962?]
And 1924 Aim & Basis, printed by SCM London
Minutes and Reports: SCM Canada, 1963 (File 13) - Box 128
Student Christian Movement of Canada. Minutes & Reports of National Council 2-12 September 1963. Stapled volume - Basis & Aim on first page
Miscellanea, 1958, 1960-1961, 1963, 1967 (File 14) - Box 128
Leaflets and documents on Student Christian Movement in Canada c. 1963. Includes copy of Report of the Commission on the Church and the University, The Canadian Council of Churches, Toronto. 1958
Australian Student Christian Movement in School a, Information Folder, c 1961
Peter Musgrove - Report on the Reduction of ASCM Office Staff, 2 May 1967
Confidential Roneod, 1p
Copy of journal Todays Frontiers, c 1960
ASCM National Conference, Mittagong 1960. Special Supplement to Todays Frontiers Whos Who at National, roneod 4p
Group of 1960 correspondence headed 'Frontiers Day' relating to ASCM National Conference, Mittagong 1961
Miscellanea, 1950 1952 1954 (File 15) - Box 128
Mainly 1950 correspondence re National Conference, Armidale, January 1951 and 1952 correspondence on National Conference, Corio, 7-15 January 1953
Miscellanea, 1945 1952-1953 1958 1960-1961 (File 16) - Box 128
Papers re Todays Frontiers, Mittagong Conference 1961
Copy of Aim Basis & Membership for printing of 4000, February 58
Minutes of Business Convention, Adelaide, January 1960
Journal vol headed 'Woodside Conference. Expenditure. Up to Corio 1953'
Circular on Officers Conference 4-7 January 1945
List of books bought of Literature Dept ASCM Corporation, 182 Collins Street, n.d.
List of books returned to Presbyterian Bookroom 24 December 1952, and other lists 1952
Miscellanea, 1949-1951 (File 17) - Box 128
Circular 8 December 1949 and papers re Theological Students Conference 13-26 January 1950
(Fourth Annual Conference of Theological Students)
Papers re Corio Conference 5-12 January 1950
Papers re Armidale Conference 10-17 January 1951 including printed leaflet giving officers, general information, daily program, tutorials, note on Communion services, etc.
Listing of Conference membership n.d.
Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1950 1951, mainly 1950 (File 1) - Box 129
Correspondence mainly to do with January 1951 Conference, Armidale
Includes list of Conference members, including payments made
Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1965 (File 2) - Box 129
Papers and correspondence with David Gill relating to SCM in University of Queensland
David Gill, Report of Visit to Brisbane 24 June - 17 July 65. Confidential, 3p
Report of visit of National Schools Secretary to Brisbane 29 March-2 April, 11 April
1965. Confidential.
Notes on individuals contacted, n.d.
Papers re Joint Conference of Newman Society, Anglican Society, Lutheran Society and SCM in University of Queensland, 26-29 August 1965
Copies of SCM in the University of Queensland Newsletter
Miscellaneous Documents, 1933 1936 1946-1947 1949 1955-1957 1960 (File 3) - Box 129
Journal issues, published documents and leaflets.
Copy of 'Other Men Laboured. Fifty Years With the Student Christian Movement in Australia 1896-1946. An Informal Story by Some of Its Leaders'. May 1946.
Copies of The Australian Intercollegiate, June 1933, December 1936, August 1947.
The Student Movement January-February 1949.
What is the WSCF, c. 1954.
Typescript 4p document c. 1949 on Dutch Indonesian position.
Constitution of the ASCM, revised to January 1952.
Document, The ASCM 1955-1957. A Report of Student Work, 4p.
Annual Conference and Convention, Mittagong December 28 1955-January 5 1956, Officers
Program Plan of Development ASCM c. 1966-1967.
Copy of study paper 'The ASCM - Its Mission and its Life' for Officers Conference,
Victor Harbour 1960
Monash University ASCM, 1964-1965 (File 4) - Box 129
Includes: Monash SCM Newsletter, Vol 1 Nos 1-4, 1964
Monash University SCM, 1967 (File 5) - Box 129
1967 Constitution. Minutes of Committee Meetings. Copies of 'Wot's Life, Student
Christian Movement in Monash University, Nos 2-4 of 1967. SCM Orientation
Newsletter, Vol 1 No 1, 1967
Monash University SCM, 1968-1969 (File 6) - Box 129
Minutes of Committee Meetings and Precessional Conference
Monash University ASCM 1966, 1966 1968 (File 7) - Box 129
Listing of 1966-1967 Committee. Copy of Monash SCM Newsletter 1968
Mott material for Leadership Booklet, 1955 1956 (File 10) - Box 129
Correspondence re publishing a handbook of extracts from the Writings of John R Mott. Service of Commemoration and Thanksgiving for the life and work of J R Mott 1865-1955
N - General, 1965 (File 12) - Box 129
Includes correspondence with Diane an John Lang more on possibility of setting up a Student Christian Movement in the Territory of Papua New Guinea
National Conferences - Review, 1959 1964-1966, mainly 1965 (File 14) - Box 129
Papers re review of pattern and costs of National Conferences Arises out of resolutions at Mittagong Conference January 1965
Newcastle Council 1966, 1966 (File 15) - Box 129
Minutes of Newcastle SCM Area Council. Correspondence. Report of Day of Prayer
Newcastle District Council, 1967 (File 16) - Box 129
Newcastle Area Council: Reports, Correspondence. Minutes of District/Area Council
Newcastle University ASCM, 1965 (File 19) - Box 129
Copy of 'Folk', University of Newcastle Student Christian Movement [Songbook].
Copy of Logos The Journal of the Student Christian Movement in the University of Newcastle, May 1965
New England Council, 1966 (File 20) - Box 129
New England Area Council of ASCM. Correspondence. Minutes
New England SCM, 1966, 1966 (File 3) - Box 130
Includes SCM Newsletter, University of New England, March and September 1966
New England University SCM, 1965 (File 4) - Box 130
Issues of SCM Newsletter, University of New England: April, June, August, September, November 1965
New England University, 1967 (File 5) - Box 130
Includes SCM Newsletter, University of New England, n.d. [1967?]
Committee Minutes. Correspondence
New England University SCM, 1965 (File 6) - Box 130
Minutes of Committee meeting. Copy of SCM Newsletter, University of New England, March 1965. Copy of ASCM in the University of New England, Members Handbook 1965; includes Aim and Basis as adopted January 1965
New Guinea, 1961-1963, 1965 (File 7) - Box 130
Includes correspondence, John Lang more of Melanesian Council of Churches
NSW Senior Branch, 1953 (File 11) - Box 130
One document only, ASCM NSW Senior Branch, Newsletter, December 1953
New Zealand Student Christian Movement, 1966, 1967 (mainly 1967) (File 16) - Box 130
Minutes of New Zealand Student Christian Movement, Dominion Executive.
Correspondence
Copy of Charisma 5, February 1967
New Zealand SCM, 1966, 1966 (File 17) - Box 130
Includes: Worship and Life. Study Conference Report 1960, New Zealand Student
Christian Movement
Religious services, 1935, 1938-1940, 1943-1945 (File 7) - Box 131
ASCM annual, commencement, membership, dedication and thanksgiving services, particularly WA, NSW, Hobart, Melbourne
Religious Services, 1939-1953 (File 8) - Box 131
Includes Service of Commissioning Rev Frank Engel as Gen Sec, College Church, Parkville, 2 December 1948
Queensland Council, 1966 (File 12) - Box 131
Includes Newsletter, University of Queensland SCM, Vol 5 no 5 [1966]
Queensland Uni SCM, 1966 (File 13) - Box 131
Includes: Newsletter, University of Queensland SCM, Vol 5 Nos 1-3
Queensland University SCM, 1967 (File 15) - Box 131
Includes: Membership list compiled in Lent Term 1967. SCM Newsletter Vol 6
Nos. 1 - 3,5 1967. Also 'Fifty-Sixth Annual Report of the Student Christian
Movement in the University of Queensland', 28 July 1967
Plan of Development 1968, 1956-1958 (File 21) - Box 131
Relates to chaplains in universities
1957 letters to denominational heads re closer cooperation with churches re assistance in promoting resident SCM staff in each major university and a University Chaplain appointed by the World Council of Churches Committee
3 copies of Plan of Development. Printed 8pp, c 1956
Political Commission, 1965 (File 23) - Box 131
Three items of correspondence with Dr Peter Boyce re his name being forwarded as the Australian Correspondent to the WSCF Political Commission
Post-conference, 1967, 1966-1967 (mainly 1967) (File 24) - Box 131
Correspondence post 1967 Conference, mainly on financial matters
Prayer, 1961 (File 25) - Box 131
Includes ASCM National Conference, Mittagong 1961, Subjects for Daily
Intercessions, Typescript 2p. Also, Worship, 5p roneod document
Prayer, 1967 (File 26) - Box 131
ASCM Prayer Guide, Guide for Persons taking Morning Prayers and leading Chapel Services. Typescript 2p. Six copies
'Problemes Europeens' (File 27) - Box 131
European Issues. Bulletin of the Ecumenical commission on European Cooperation, No 1 February 18th 1953. Pencil note on front cover 'Sample (copies received to October 1964 destroyed)'
Project 1968: National Campus Christian Ministry, 1965-1967 (mainly 1967) (File 28) - Box 131
Relates to National Campus Ministry Association of US and NCMA overseas assignments. Gives some review of perceived fields of work in Australian Universities. 1966, individual from United Presbyterian Church of the USA coming - Rev William L Yolton
S - General, 1966 (File 3) - Box 132
Includes
Document 'University Staff-Student Relationships in the ASCM', March 1966.
Letter of 21 October 1966 re Peter Musgrove's comments in Crux August-September 66 on students running their own branches
Schools A/c, 1964-1966 (File 4) - Box 132
Accounts, receipts, financial statements, ASCM but mainly ASCM in schools
SCM correspondence, Qld, 1968 (File 6) - Box 132
Does not appear to have anything to do with Queensland
Miscellaneous correspondence and documents
Area Councils - Extracts from ASCM constitution on structure and functions. Roneod 1p
Report of Vic Area Council, Chairman John Lang more, 1967. Summarises membership activities in Vic Universities and Technical Colleges
Minutes of Vic Area Council meeting 11 December 1967
ASCM in Melbourne University, Financial Report 24/7/67 - 29/7/68. Roneod 1p.
Two issues of Whisper n.d. including first edition. SCM, Melbourne University.
Extract from Farrago Friday June 14, 1968. 'SCM, Atheists, agnostics, existentialists. A political program for 1968'
Revised itinerary for L W Yolton as of 15April 1968
'Summary of Discussion on Staff Chaplains and Societies'. University of
Melbourne 21 June 1968. Roneod 2p
Circular letter of 2 August 1968 from L Aarons, Communist Party of Australia re Indonesian political prisoners
SCM Correspondence Qld, 1967-68 (mainly 1968) (File 7) - Box 132
Nothing to do with Queensland
Relates to SCM in University of Melbourne and Monash
Monash, Listing of Committee Members and Committee Minutes 1968
Mss list of Presidents and Secretaries of Australian University SCM's
Five issues of Newsletter of University of Melbourne Student Christian Movement, 1968
SCM Correspondence Qld, 1966-1968 (File 8) - Box 132
Nothing to do with Queensland
Includes
Documents on the Yolton project. 'Christian Presence in the University. An
Australian Case-study' including 'Prospectus for a first report on Christian Presence in the University'. Roneod 6p
Paper for ASCM General Committee, 1966: Introduction, Reports of Area Councils and report of Robin McCulloch, Field Secretary. Roneod 38p
Report of General Committee to ASCM Business Convention, Canberra 1967
Minutes of Business Convention, Canberra 1967
Report of General Committee to Business Convention, Syd. 1968
Report of National Sec of ASCM in Schools to Gen Committee, August 1966
ASCM in schools. Analysis of Conference 1963-1964 [Vic]
Silence periods, 1961 (File 9) - Box 132
Notes on use of Silence Periods
One document only, dated 5 September 61
South Australian Council, 1965 (File 10) - Box 132
Minutes of five meetings of Area Council
Minutes of Tasmanian Council 23 March 1965
Correspondence
South Australia Council, 1966 (File 12) - Box 132
Minutes of Area Council 28 March 66
Includes April 1966, 'ASCM in South Australia. Officers'
South Australia Friends - Senior Branch, 1964, 1966 (File 13) - Box 132
Includes January 1964 notes from R H Rischbieth, Adelaide, on difficulty of keeping track of Senior Branch Friends of ASCM
Staff Investigation Committee 1965, 1959 (File 16) - Box 132
Extract from Post Conference General Committee Minutes, Corio 1959
'Staff. Report of Staff Investigation Committee. Typescript 1p. Seven copies
State Conferences, 1958, 1963-1965 (File 17) - Box 132
Retreat House, Cheltenham
Includes Programs, Agenda and correspondence
Strong, Charles (Australian Church) Memorial Trust, 1957-1967 (File 18) - Box 132
Correspondence, also Minutes of Council of Memorial Trust. Notes of changes of SCM representative on the Council
Structures, 1963-1964, 1966-1968. Mainly 1966-1967 (File 19) - Box 132
Papers on staffing and structures
Student Christian Fellowships, 1967 (File 20) - Box 132
Response to enquiry from Student Christian Fellowship, Wollongong University College, on activities of the SCM
Study, 1952, 1966 (File 21) - Box 132
Includes D F Burnard, SA 'The Engineer, His peculiarities and His place in the General Life of the Community. 9 July 1952
Includes a 1966 Bible study
Sydney University ASCM, 1965 (File 23) - Box 132
11 issues 1965 of Ti Kainon [?]
One issue, 1965 No 3, of UNUM. Journal of the Sydney University Student
Christian Movement
Correspondence
Sydney University Anglican Society, Members Letter, Third Term 1965, 6 October 65
Copy of 'Theology for the Layman'. ASCM in the University of Sydney 1965.
Roneod and stapled, 58p.. Contains text of six lectures given in the previous year
T, 1953 (File 1) - Box 133
One letter. K H Ting to Miss Ruth Harris, SCM, Univ of syd from Nanking, 30 January 1953
T - General, 1966 (File 2) - Box 133
Includes Memorandum of Work in Teachers Colleges. To all members of Exec. Peter Musgrave, Gen Sec; Michael Brown, National Schools Sec. Roneod 3p c 1966
Tape Library, 1963-68 (File 4) - Box 133
Papers re ASCM Tape Lending Library
Includes October 68 catalogue
Tasmania Council, 1967 (File 5) - Box 133
Correspondence with Oliver Heyward, Warden, Christ College, Hobart
Tasmania University ASCM, 1965 (File 7) - Box 133
Correspondence
Minutes of Tasmania Area Council
Three issues 1965 of SCM Newsletter.
Journal of the Student Christian Movement in the University of Tasmania
Tasmania University Council, 1965-1966 (File 8) - Box 133
Correspondence
Minutes of Area council
Two issues of SCM Newsletter: November 1965 and April/May 1966
Teacher Training ( Technical) Colleges, 1949, 1951, 1958, 1967 (File 9) - Box 133
Australian Student Christian Movement in Teachers' Colleges. A Report for State Councils and others interested in SCM work in Teachers Colleges.
September 1958.
Report of the Commission on Work in Teachers' Colleges. Leila Giles [1949].
Typescript 3p
Teachers College Conference. 'Rostherne', Sutherland, 31 May - 3 June 1951.
Roneod 12p
Movement staff and Teacher Training College Work. 21 February 1967. Roneod 1p
Michael Brown. 'Who Seemed to be Pillars'. Religious Conformity in the Training College. Roneod 4p
Memorandum on Work in Teachers Colleges. To all Members of Executive. [1967]
Roneod 3p
Theological Colleges, 1949, 1955-1957 (File 10) - Box 133
1949 papers and correspondence
Minutes of National Theological Colleges Committee, 1955-1957.
Report of Australia's first National Theological Teachers' Conference, Ormond College, University of Melbourne. February 13-15, 1956. Guest speakers included Visser 't Hooft, Bp Lakdosa De Mel, Dr Kathleen Bliss, Prof H C Hromadka, Dr E A Payne, Dean Liston Pope. Chaplain, Rev S Selvaretnam. Roneod 25p. Includes addresses of speakers
Theological Colleges, 1954-1956 (File 11) - Box 133
Minutes of ASCM National Theological Colleges Committee, 1954-1956
Returns of a Questionnaire re Theological Education in Australia. Returns from some 28 theological institutions. c 1955
U - General, 1967, 1967 (File 13) - Box 133
Includes copy of Wind and Chaff. A Student Journal of the University Christian Movement. Vol IV No 3 May 1967. University Christian Movement N York. Reference to United Campus Christian Fellowship
Victoria Council - Finance, 1963-1966 (File 21) - Box 133
Includes list of people making contributions in November 1964.
Notes - Advice of ASCM visitors to businessmen
Vietnam, 1966-1967 (File 22) - Box 133
ASCM, WSCF etc papers on Vietnam
ASCM National Conference, Geelong, 1966. Statement on the Vietnam War Responses to copies of this sent to Ministers and others. Includes two page detailed response, 26 January 66, signed by Paul Hasluck, Minister for External Affairs
Class. Additional consignment (2)
State Councils - Victorian State Council - minutes, accounts finance committee, 1939-1947 (File (8)) - Box 151
State Councils - Victorian Branch (constitutions minutes0, NSW Minute Book, 1919-1939 (File 1) - Box 153
Student volunteers movement, foreign service group etc - missionary service fellowship etc, 1940s-1950s (File 1_9) - Box 177
General files - eg schools committees, day of prayer, group literacy project, 1960s (File) - Box 193
General files - eg action world development, business meetings, conference committees, 1970s (File) - Box 194
Reports etc of Christian Unions in all states - reports to general committee,, 1977 (File) - Box 212
Minutes of general committee & executive, Series 6 - Reports to travelling secretaries