Service League of Greenville (N.C.) Records

1938-2023
Manuscript Collection #1243
Creator(s)
Service League of Greenville (Greenville, N.C.)
Physical description
6.50 Cubic Feet, 7.73 Gigabytes, 11 archival boxes
Preferred Citation
Service League of Greenville (N.C.) Records (#1243), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.
Repository
ECU Manuscript Collection
Access
This collection is open for research. Original audiovisual media and digital files are unavailable for use. Please contact Special Collections for access copies.

This collection contains the history of the Service League of Greenville, North Carolina (1951-2023). Present in the collection are the records of the organization, scrapbooks and photographs, uniforms worn by members, membership rosters, posters, clippings, and a cookbook. The material present in the collection includes both physical items and digital files.


Biographical/historical information

The Service League of Greenville, North Carolina was established in 1938 as a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring quality health care and assistance to individuals and the Greenville community. The group is still active today.


Scope and arrangement

This collection contains the history of the Service League of Greenville, North Carolina (1951-2023). Present in the collection are the records of the organization, materials related to their annual Charity Ball and Annual Luncheon (1951-2023), scrapbooks and photographs (1938-2013), uniforms worn by members who voluteer at the local hospital gift shop, membership rosters (1977-2013), posters (1964-2011), clippings, and a cookbook (2012). The material present in the collection includes both physical items and digital files. A significant portion of the physical materials from the years 1973-2013 belonged to former member Janet McGlohon.


Administrative information
Custodial History

July 10, 2015, 6.25 cu.ft.; The Service League of Greenville (North Carolina) was established in 1938 as a non-profit organization and is a very active group dedicated to ensuring quality health care and assistance to individuals, and the Greenville community. This collection includes three scrapbooks covering the years 1938 to 1976, three disks containing information from the scrapbooks, a hard drive with digital information for the years 1976 to 2013, papers related to the presentation of these records to this repository in 2014, and a member's material that covers forty years (1973-2013) of participation. Gift of the Service League of Greenville via President Boots A. Mills.

September 7, 2016,(addition 1) 0.001 cu.ft.; A flash drive containing scans of the 2014-2016 scrapbook for the Service League of Greenville, North Carolina. Gift of the Service League of Greenville via Historian Martha Bloss. Flash drive deaccessioned (7/21/23).

March 22, 2024, (unprocessed addition 2) 0.25 cubic feet; This addition (2013-2023) contains programs, invitations, a photograph, and newspaper clippings related to the Service League of Greenville's Charity Balls for the benefit of The Laughinghouse Fund, the May luncheons, fund-raising activities, and the projects paid for by donations. Gift of Frances Mallison.

Source of acquisition

Gift of the Service League of Greenville

Gift of Frances Mallison

Processing information

Processing completed December 8, 2016, by Samantha Sheffield.

Digital materials processed by John Dunning, August 2025.

Copyright notice

Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law.


Key terms
Corporate Names
Service League of Greenville (Greenville, N.C.)
Topical
Charities, Medical--North Carolina--Greenville
Scrapbooks--North Carolina--Greenville

Container list
Box 1 Folder a Service Records, 1973-1978
Box 1 Folder b Service Records, 1978-1983
Box 1 Folder c Service Records, 1983-1988
Box 1 Folder d Service Records, 1988-1989
Box 1 Folder e Service Records, 1989-1990
Box 1 Folder f Service Records, 1990-1995
Box 2 Folder a Service Records, 1995-2000
Box 2 Folder b Service Records, 2001-2002
Box 2 Folder c Service Records, 2002-2005
Box 2 Folder d Service Records, 2005-2007
Box 2 Folder e Service Records, 2007-2008
Box 2 Folder f Service Records, 2009-2011
Box 2 Folder g Service Records, 2011-2013
Box 3 Folder a Assorted Charity Ball materials, 1965-2009
Box 3 Folder b Charity Ball Formal Invitation, 1951, 1964-1969
Box 3 Folder c Charity Ball Formal Invitations, 1975, 1977, 1983, 1985-1989
Box 3 Folder d Charity Ball Formal Invitations, 1990-1999
Box 3 Folder e Charity Ball formal invitations, 2000-2009
Box 3 Folder f Charity Ball formal invitations, 2010-2013
Box 3 Folder g Annual Luncheon formal invitations, 1967-1999
Box 3 Folder h Annual Luncheon formal invitations, 2000-2009
1243-s7-b11-f2 Charity Ball Programs, 1968-2013 4.34 Gigabytes 70 files

These are digital files. The date range describes the date the scanned material was created, not the date the digital file was created.

1243-s7-b11-f1 Charity Ball Posters, 1964-2013 900 Megabytes 27 files

These are digital files. The date range describes the date the scanned material was created, not the date the digital file was created.

Box 4 Folder a Digital Scrapbook Album D with partial printed index, 1977-2013 2.49 Gigabytes 761 digital files

Inlcudes digital files. The date range describes the date the scanned material was created, not the date the digital files were created. The partial index identifies some individuals in the scrapbook.

Box 4 Folder b Service League Publicity, 2008-2010
Box 4 Folder c Clippings, 1993,2013, undated
Box 4 Folder d Scripts of plays and skits, undated
Box 4 Folder e Photographs, 1951, 1987-2012, undated 6.8 Megabytes 5 files

Includes digital files.

Box 5 Photograph album (1998) and commemorative pins, undated.
Box 6 Scrapbook album A containing pages A-1 through A-49, 1938-1953.
Box 7 Scrapbook album B containing pages B-1 through B-56, 1956-1968.
Box 8 Scrapbook album C containing pages C-1 through C-45 and Sup. C-40, 1968-1976, and loose pages for 2014.
Box 9 Service League Uniforms
Box 10 Folder a Membership Rosters, 1974-1979
Box 10 Folder b Membership Rosters, 1980-1989
Box 10 Folder c Membership Rosters, 1990-1999
Box 10 Folder d Membership Rosters, 2000-2013
Box 11 Folder a Programs, Invitations and Clippings relate to Charity Ball and other events, 2013-2014
Box 11 Folder b Programs, Invitations and Clippings relate to Charity Ball and other events, 2014-2015
Box 11 Folder c Programs, Invitations and Clippings relate to Charity Ball and other events, 2015-2016
Box 11 Folder d Programs, Invitations and Clippings relate to Charity Ball and other events, 2016-2017
Box 11 Folder e Programs, Invitations and Clippings relate to Charity Ball and other events, 2017-2018
Box 11 Folder f Programs, Invitations and Clippings relate to Charity Ball and other events, 2018-2019
Box 11 Folder g Programs, Invitations and Clippings relate to Charity Ball and other events, 2019-2020
Box 11 Folder h Programs, Invitations and Clippings relate to Charity Ball and other events, 2020-2021
Box 11 Folder i Invitations and Photograph related to the Charity Ball and other events, 2021-2022
Box 11 Folder j Programs, Invitations and Clippings relate to Charity Ball and other events, 2022-2023
1243-s7-f1 Cookbook, 2012 2.68 Megabytes 10 files

These are digital files.