PAST NEWSLETTERS NOW ON NFC WEBSITE!
The NFC Newsletters from 1989 to present are now posted on the NFC website’s document library. This came about because our treasurer Dee found that a vast number of NFC newsletters were stored on a hard drive left by Past-President Maryanna Murtaugh in the NFC safety deposit box at the bank. A few weeks ago, Diane Swain scanned some past newsletters she had held and forwarded them to me. The newsletters were loaded easily on the NFC website’s documents library. This led to investigating the hard drive to see if the scanned newsletters would also transfer to the website documents library and they did. Now a total of 309 NFC newsletters are available for members to view, giving a rich history of NFC since its inception in 1989. The issues are organized by decade..
The first newsletter appeared March 1989 and was named “The Carolinian”. It reported that on January 23, 1989, there was a total of 81 charter members in the newly formed New Friends of Carolina. Twenty more members joined in the first two weeks of establishment. Although some interest groups are familiar, other activities such as an Antique Group, Clay Sculpture, Museum Explorers, Financial Planning, and Mom’s Night Out with a babysitting co-op are novel to us now. These newsletters have a lot to tell us about how the club has evolved to meet the needs of women over three decades.
We have many people to thank for the existence of this extraordinary collection. Sandy Cummings and other past presidents helped to gather and save the paper archive of the newsletters that Maryanna Murtaugh used to build the digital newsletter collection. Maryanna was responsible for scanning over 200 newsletters from 1989-2017. I would estimate that must have been well over 2,000 pages. We are all grateful to Maryanna for preserving the club’s history and recognize the tremendous effort she made on behalf of NFC. Further, we are appreciative of Diane Swain’s efforts, for her work in scanning more recent newsletters got the project rolling. And, of course, we also recognize the hard work of all our newsletter editors, past and present. One of the goals set when I became the first NFC E-Librarian was to make our newsletters accessible online using our new website. I am thrilled to report the goal has been met due to the splendid efforts of our members for 30 plus years.
Debbie Williams, NFC E-Librarian
clymerny@hotmail.com
How to Open Documents on Website to View Newsletters
- Got to the top of the Homepage and click on "Documents"
- Click on "Expand All" on top of the Documents Folders
- Scroll down to Newsletters.
- Click on the Decade you wish to view.
- To the right a list of newsletters by month and year will appear.
- Click on the green arrow of the issue you wish to view. It will load in a few seconds.
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