Scope and Contents
Box 1: Consists of documents from NOW and OWPC, information regarding abortion, women related publications, other women organizations, conferences, and reports.
Box 2: Consists of mostly newspaper publications, ephemera from elections, documents from the Governors Commission for Women, information on child care, battered women, domestic violence, WomanSource and displaced homemakers.
Box 3: Consists of information regarding child abuse, letters, list of Salem Clubs and Organizations, meeting notes, Republication Convention, and the Democratic Party of Oregon.
Box 4: Consists of documents from the League of Women Voters, House of Representatives, OWPC Legislative Directory, information regarding social security, miscellaneous women related publications, and the National Commission on the Observance of International Women’s Year.
Box 5: A Scrapbook that includes clippings of a June 1977 Oregon Women’s Conference. The clippings consist of documents regarding the conference and newspaper clippings.
Dates
- 1974-1983
Creator
- Milligan, Marian (Person)
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Conditions Governing Use
Property rights reside with Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries. Copyright resides with the creators of the documents or their heirs. All requests for permission to publish collection materials must be submitted to Special Collections and University Archives. The reader must also obtain permission of the copyright holder.
Biographical / Historical
Marian Milligan has lived most of her life in Salem, Oregon. From there, she was able to be a political volunteer, have a position of Chair for OWPC Legislative Task Force, and be involved in the Women’s Crisis Service, INC., Salem-OWPC, National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL), NOW, Oregon Council for Women’s Equity, and the Oregon’s Women Conference.
Marian Milligan is also very much involved in the Governor’s Commission for Women. In this organization, she started as a commission member then became a part of the Executive Committee as the commissioner-Vice Chairman. Under this organization, she was able to work on projects such as;\ child sexual abuse, rape prevention, and leadership development for women. Her other involvement work includes working with and supporting the issues of abortion, social security, domestic and sexual violence in Salem, child care, displaced homemakers, state legislations regarding women, and the Equal Rights Amendment. For her hard work and dedication, Marian Milligan was nominated as one of the Delegates to Houston.
Milligan served as the founding president of the Greater Oregon chapter of the Society of Government Meeting PRofessionals (SGMP). The work to create the chapter began in 1987 when Milligan joined the Seattle Chapter (now Pacific Northwest chapter) and saw the value of having a forum to meet and connect with other government meeting planners and suppliers. After attending the 1988 SGMP National Education Conference in Chicago and the Seattle/Pacific Northwest chapter's winter conference in 1989, Marian was inspired to start an Oregon chapter.
Over the next several months, Marian led the formation of the chapter, with the assistance of Ernie Oakes and a steering committee comprised of planners, suppliers and National Board Member Gary Francis. The first formation meeting was held in May 1989 at the Westin Benson Hotel in Portland with over 50 people in attendance; the chapter was formally organized, with Milligan elected the first president, on November 20, 1989. Since 1989, GOSGMP membership has steadily increased and now has 96 members as of July, 2011.
Extent
7.5 linear feet (5 containers) : 4 record storage boxes and 1 flat box
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Marian Milligan, of Salem, Oregon, is a women's activist and political volunteer. She has been involved with a number of organizations, including the OWPC Legislative Task Force, Women’s Crisis Service, INC., Salem-OWPC, National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL), NOW, Oregon Council for Women’s Equity, and the Oregon’s Women Conference.
Arrangement
Collection is organized alphabetically.
Processing Information
Collection processed by Jennifer Nguyen
This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
- Oregon Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Oregon NOW (Organization)
- Oregon Women's Political Caucus
- Salem (Or.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Women -- Political activity -- Oregon Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Women's rights -- Oregon Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Guide to the Marian Milligan Papers
- Status
- Complete Description
- Author
- Jennifer Nguyen and Kira B. Homo
- Date
- 2013
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is written in English
- Sponsor
- Funding for production of this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) administered through the Oregon State Library.
Repository Details
Part of the University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives Repository
