Texas Tech University Archives
Below are social and honor organization collections [both faculty, students and/or alumni] that are available for viewing in the reading room.

I.  Alumni Organizations III.  Honor Organizations
II.  Faculty Organizations IV.  Student Organizations

I.  Alumni Organizations

Dads and Moms Association
Now known as the Dads and Moms Association, the Dads Association was created for fathers to show support to their children who attended Texas Tech University. An annual Dads Day event was held to honor Tech Student fathers, and many times, there was also a Mother's luncheon held simultaneously. The Association also helped raise funds for and administer scholarships to Tech students.

Ex-Double T Association
The Ex-Double T Association was an organization of graduates and ex-students of Texas Technological College who were awarded the Double T in one of four major sports.

  •  U 71.1 Ex-Double T Association Records, 1939-1941: This 1 wallet collection contains primarily minutes of the association, some correspondence, and the constitution.

Ex-Students Association
Begun in 1927 with the first graduating class, the Tech’s Alumni Association went through several name changes before settling on the name of Ex-Students Association in September 1949. The organization represents all who have attending Tech, not just its graduates, and publishes a bimonthly magazine called the Texas Techsan. Sponsoring events such as Homecoming, awards programs and chapter activities, the Ex-Students Association also provides numerous academic scholarships and offers support for various University and student groups.

  • Ex-Students Association Photographs
  • U 70.1 Ex-Students Association Records, 1957-1985 and undated: This is a 3 box collection.
  • U 70.2 Ex-Students Association Records, 1929: This is a 1 wallet collection.
  • U 70.3 Ex-Students Association Scrapbook, 1963-1964: This is a 1 scrapbook collection.
  • U 70.7 Ex-Students Association Records, 1927-2002 and undated: This 8 box collection consists of the administration and activity records for the Texas Tech Ex-Students Association from 1927-2002 and includes correspondence, Homecoming planning materials, Executive Board materials and news clippings.
  • S ? D. M. McElroy Papers, 1934-1993 and undated: This 1 wallet collection contains files on general correspondence, Pete Cawthon, Lubbock Task Force on Continuing Education, News clippings, Texas Tech Ex-Students Association, programs, Lubbock tornado, certificates, and scrapbook material, as well as information concerning D. M. McElroy as director of the Ex-Students Association.
  • S ? Wilmer Smith Papers, 1959-1985: This 1 wallet collection includes correspondence, legal material, printed material, and miscellaneous material related to Smith's involvement as President of Texas Technological College's Ex-Student Association and as a member on the Board of Directors.
  •  See also U 14.1 James G. Allen Records, 1925-1969

     

II.  Faculty Organizations

After Dinner Forum

American Association of University Professors
The nation’s principal organization of college professors, the AAUP’s aim is to encourage growth of faculty participation in university governance, strive for economic benefits, and to uphold academic freedom. Texas Tech was placed on the AAUP’s censure list from 1958-1967 for improper dismissal of three professors.

  • U 16.1 American Association of University Professors Records, undated: This is a 2 box collection.
  • U 16.2 American Association of University Professors Records, 1944-1967: This is a 1 box collection.
  • U 16.3 American Association of University Professors Records, 1965-1970: This is a 1 box collection.
  • U 16.4 American Association of University Professors Records, 1948-1966: This is a 1 wallet collection.

American Association of University Women

  • S ? American Association of University Women. Lubbock Chapter Records, 1925-1962
  • S ? American Association of University Women Records, 1969-1977 and undated: This is a 2 wallet collection.
  • S ? American Association of University Women Records, 1928-1981 and undated: This is a 3 box collection of scrapbooks and literary publications.
  • U 204.1 American Association of University Women Records, 1951-1952: This is a 1 wallet collection contains the "Annual Report:  Lubbock Branch, 1951-1952."

Faculty Club
The purpose of the Faculty Club was to promote social activities for and among its membership. Faculty, Graduate Assistants, officers of the administration, and monthly salaried staff of Texas Tech were eligible for membership. Complimentary, non-voting memberships were given to members of the Board of Regent and former Tech presidents.

  • U 74.1 Faculty Club Records, 1987-1992: This 2 box collection contains financial material, meeting minutes, membership lists, and general office files pertaining to the activities of the Faculty Club from 1987-1992.
  • U 74.2 Faculty Club Records, 1965-1970 and undated: This is a 1 wallet collection.
  • U 74.3 Faculty Club Records, 1969-1993 and undated: This 1 box collection contains financial material, meeting minutes, membership lists, constitutions, and general office files pertaining to the activities of the Faculty Club from 1969-1993.
  • U 74.4 Faculty Club Records, 1967-1989 and undated: This 4 box collection contains financial material, meeting minutes, membership lists, constitutions, and general office files pertaining to the activities of the Faculty Club from 1967-1989.

Faculty Women’s Club

Quarterly Club

  • S ? Scotti Mae Tucker Papers, 1961-1969: This 1 wallet collection contains include Quarterly Club minutes and programs for a society of Texas Tech University.
  • S ? Margaret W. Weeks Papers, 1925-1967: This collection includes the minutes of the Quarterly Club from 1932-1957.

Questers
Questers, whose name was derived from "questing for knowledge," began with a membership of 20 men. Membership is done by nomination and majority vote. The wives of the members have their own group called the Jesters.

Sachems
Sachems was a faculty organization for fellowship and discussion.

  • U 158.1 Sachems Records: This is a 1 wallet collection pertaining to the history of Sachems.

Techsan Garden Club
The Techsan Garden Club was an organization of the University Women’s group, started in 1962, and was a member of the National Council of State Garden Clubs. Membership consisted of women faculty members, faculty wives, mothers or sisters of members living in the home, and wives and widows of former faculty members of Texas Tech University. Some the purposes of the club included advancing the interests, the organization, and fine art of gardening and garden clubs and plant societies; aiding in the protection and conservation of natural resources by helping to protect civic landscapes and promoting improvements of roadsides and parks; and assisting in the maintenance of the Municipal Garden and Arts Center and supporting the Lubbock Memorial Arboretum.

  • U 210.1 Techsan Garden Club Records, 1962-1988: Materials in this 2 box collection detail the clubs activities, including financial materials, newspaper clippings, and photographs. Also includes 4 large scrapbooks filled with photographs and information on the club’s activities and members.

Texas Association of College Teachers. Texas Tech Chapter
Organized as the College Classroom Teachers' Association of the Texas State Teachers' Association in November 1948, the Texas Association of College Teachers was reorganized and separated from the Texas State Teachers' Association in 1956. It is composed of local chapters located in state-supported universities and colleges and helps develop programs to attain high personal standards of teaching, scholarship and research. The Texas Tech Chapter is one of the largest chapters.

  • S ? Texas Association of College Teachers. Texas Tech Chapter Records, 1956-1970: This collection contains materials related to the Texas Association of College Teachers and the Texas Tech Chapter.  It bulks with correspondence (1961-1970) and general files (1957-1967). Other material includes membership, printed, and miscellaneous material, minutes, legal and financial documents, charts, and lists. The correspondence offers a wide variety of discussions related to the Texas Association of Classroom Teachers activities and interests.

University Women’s Club
The organization was composed of two units. The Newcomers’ Club was comprised of the wives of faculty who have served three years or less at Texas Tech. The Faculty Women’s Club was for the wives of faculty who had served longer than three years at Texas Tech. Various social activities included tea parties, theatre parties, and a style show. The organization also participated in raising funds for the Paul Whitfield Horn Fellowship that gave an annual award to female graduate student at the university. Another activity of the organization was to prepare and give out information packets on Lubbock and Texas Tech to any incoming faculty.

III.  Honor Organizations

Alpha Chi
A national scholastic fraternity comprised of juniors and seniors ranking in the upper 10 percentile. Alpha Lambda Delta

Kappa Mu Epsilon
A mathematics organization, Kappa Mu Epsilon was founded in 1931 and granted membership  into the Association of College Honor Societies in 1968.  The Texas Tech chapter appears to have been established in 1940.

Los Tertulianos
Texas Tech's first minority student organization.

Mortar Board
Leadership, Scholarship, and service is the motto of the Mortar board, founded nationally in 1918 through the efforts of four local women’s honor societies at Swarthmore College, Cornell University, Ohio State University, and the University of Michigan.  Texas Tech’s service organization, Forum, founded by Mrs. Mary Doak in 1927, was accepted in the spring of 1949 into the national chapter of the Mortar Board by A.A.U.W.  Projects sponsored by TTU’s Mortar Board included Homecoming Coffee for Alumnae, Operation Senorita, and work in Registration.

Omicron Delta Kappa
Omicron Delta Kappa is a leadership/honor fraternity. Student members must have over sixty hours of university credits and at least a 3.0 grade point average. They must show competency in at least two of seven leadership areas including campus athletics, publications, literature, music, etc.

  • U 269.1 Omicron Delta Kappa, 1979-1992: This 1 box collection consists of applications, correspondence, membership applications, initiation ceremonies, national convention, newspaper, and University Honors day.

Phi Alpha Theta
Phi Alpha Theta, the International Honor Society in History, was created in 1921 at the University of Arkansas. Seeking to bring together students, teachers, and writers of History, Phi Alpha Theta is a professional society whose purpose is to promote the study of history through good teaching, publication, research, and interactions among historians. Publications put out by the society include The Historian, a historical quarterly is which prints articles by members as well also numerous reviews of scholarly books and news of historical activities, and The News Letter, which is published three times per year and carries articles covering current activities and awards of the Society.

  • U 139.1 Phi Alpha Theta Records, 1952-1991: This 3 box collection pertains to activities of the Zeta Iota Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, international honor fraternity, at Texas Tech University. Also contains general records of the honor fraternity.

Phi Beta Kappa
Phi Beta Kappa is the nation’s oldest academic honor society and was established at the College of William and Mary in 1776.  Faculty at Texas Tech University submitted applications to get a chapter in 1982, 1985, 1997 and 2000.  Texas Tech faculty finally succeeded in gaining charter approval in 2006, thus making Texas Tech one of only three public universities in the state of Texas granted the right to host a Phi Beta Kappa chapter. The formal installation ceremonies were held at 4 p.m. on April 11, 2007, at the Allen Theatre on the Texas Tech campus.

Phi Eta Sigma
Freshman students who achieve at least a 3.50 grade point average during their first two semesters are eligible for membership into Phi Eta Sigma, an academic honorary organization that was chartered at Texas Tech in 1946. 

Phi Gamma Nu
Phi Gamma Nu was a professional business sorority whose activities included helping take the minutes at Dad's Day meetings and hosting a Homecoming reception for the College of Business Administration.

Phi Kappa Phi
Texas Tech University’s international honor society, Phi Kappa Phi’s primary objective was the recognition and encouragement of superior scholarship in all academic disciplines. The honor society was founded in 1897 at the University of Maine. There are now chapters in 49 states as well as the District of Columbia, the Philippines and Puerto Rico. Membership in Phi Kappa Phi is the highest academic honor offered by Texas Tech.

  • U 141.1 Phi Kappa Phi Records, 1956-1969: This is a 1 box collection.

Phi Upsilon Omicron - Double Key Chapter
The Double Key Chapter of the Phi Upsilon Omicron Sorority was an honor sorority for students in the School of Home Economics at Texas Tech. The Chapter was granted recognition from the national sorority, Phi Upsilon Omicron, in 1937. The sorority was active until 1992.

Sigma Xi
Previously started on May 26, 1931 as a club, the Sigma Xi group on the Texas Tech campus offically became a Chapter of the national Sigma Xi organization on April 22, 1960. The Texas Tech Chapter became the fifth chapter of Sigma Xi, a graduate science research society, in the state of Texas. Sixty-one members were inducted under the 1960 initiation ceremonies.

  • U 238.1 Sigma Xi Records, 1957-1998 and undated: This 3 box collection contains the records of the Sigma Xi chapter at Texas Tech University, from it's inception through the present. Included are financial statements and receipts, correspondence, membership rosters, banquet invitations and planning files, abstracts of presentations at the annual conference, the biographical history of the Texas Tech Chapter of Sigma Xi, meeting agendas and rosters, nominations for memberships, and the Treasurer's receipts.
  • U 238.2 Sigma Xi Records, 1957-1996: This 2 box collection consists of files on correspondence, manuals of procedure, membership, nominations, proceedings of the seventy-fifth national meeting, the Texas Tech University Chapter, and the Third Annual Research and Creative Activities Day.
  • See also President’s Office Records, 1923-1948 -- Sigma Xi Research, 1942-1945
  • See also Lauro F. Cavazos Papers, 1965-1988 and undated -- Sigma Xi Research, 1980-1982

Zeta Tau Alpha
Zeta Tau Alpha was founded at Longwood College in Farmville, Virginia, on October 15, 1898.  It became the first sorority to be chartered in Virginia in 1902 and later, in 1909, became a member of the National Panhellenic Conference.  Members of Las Vivarachas social club at Texas Technological College became pledges of the Gamma Tau Chapter of Zeta Tau Alpha on December 5, 1952, and were initiated as member in April, 1953.

  • See Nancy Cantwell Collection, 1938-1956

IV.  Student Organizations

Adelphi (Sigma Alpha Epsilon?)
Organized in the fall of 1950, the fraternity was founded by thirteen members and admitted as a campus organization in the spring of 1950.

Agricultural Club [also called the "Aggie Club"]

  • Agricultural Club Records, 1929-1933:  This 1 wallet collection contains a bound ledger detailing the history and activities of the student organization.
Alpha Phi Omega
Organized on campus as the Eagle Scout Club in the fall of 1938, the club officially became the Beta Sigma Chapter on April 30, 1939. A service organization, APO is a national service fraternity affliated with the Boys Scouts of America. The chapter was recognized in 1942 for having the nation’s largest pledging class.

Alpha Tau Omega

Angel Flight
Angel Flight was the female arm of the Air Force R.O.T.C. at Texas Tech.  The organization was sponsored by Arnold Air Society, which was the male arm of the Air Force R.O.T.C. program.

Arnold Air Society
The Arnold Air Society was the male arm of the Air Force R.O.T.C. program. It's sister arm was the Angel Flight society, which promoted interest in the United States Air Force, strived to give college women across America knowledge and educational information concerning the military services, and aided the progress of the Arnold Air Society.   

Association of Women Students (Texas Technological College)
The Association of Women Students was organized on the Texas Tech University campus in 1931 by Mary W. Doak, Margaret Weeks and the Quarterly Club, a faculty women's organization. The organization held an annual Women's Day celebration, during which all Tech coeds wear white.

  • S 45.1 Association of Women Students Scrapbook, 1968 and undated: This 1 wallet collection contains a scrapbook of the Women’s Day banquet and activities at Texas Tech in 1968 plus a few loose photographs of the event. It also contains some undated photographs.
  • U 310.1 Association of Women Students Collection, 1938-1969:  This 1 box collection contains programs for the Recognition Services and Women's Day events.
  • See also U 14.1 James G. Allen Records, 1925-1969

Astronomy Club

  • S ? Preston F. Gott Papers, 1947-1991 and undated: This 4 wallet collection contains information on the Texas Tech Astronomy Club and the construction of an observatory.

Block and Bridle Club
Sponsored by the Animal Science Department of the College of Agricultural Sciences, the Block and Bridle Club was an organization made up of undergraduate and graduate students who supported the livestock industry and the Animal Science Dept. Activities included an annual ham and turkey sale, the Annual Little International All University Livestock Show and Judging Contest, an banquet, and presentations of scholarships to members. The national chapter of Block and Bridle Club was formed in 1919 in Chicago, Illinois. The Texas Tech chapter was a major sponsor of the All-College Rodeo, which began in 1930, and Western Days, which began in 1946.

  • Block and Bridle Club Photographs
  • U 211.1 Block and Bridle Club Records, 1933-1981 and undated: The 2 box collection consists of various files, reports, newspaper clippings, scrapbook materials, and photographs pertaining to the everyday activities of the Block and Bridle Club at Texas Tech University.
  • See U 335.1 Tom Kingsbery Collection, 1947-1948 -- scrapbook on the first Texas Tech Rodeo Team
  • See U 12.3 Agricultural Sciences College Collection, 1951-1952 -- This 1 wallet collection consists of memorabilia found tucked inside a 1952 La Ventana, including a 4th prize ribbon for the 4th Annual Block and Bridle Little Invitational; 5 news clippings; and a group portrait the Block & Bridle All-College softball champions (1952?).
Centaur Club (Phi Kappa Psi?)
Organized in 1929, the Centaur Club was the first men's social club on campus to be comprised solely of college students.

Channing Club

  • U 41.1 Channing Club Records, 1970: This is a 1 wallet collection.

Cheerleading

  • Elmer Moore oral history interview (1981)
College Club (Kappa Sigma?)
Organized on November 21, 1928, College Club was the oldest men's fraternity on the Texas Tech campus by 1952.

Delta Tau Delta

DFD (Delta Delta Delta?)
Founded at Texas Tech on March 2, 1930, DFD ws the only campus organization with a name and meaning only known to its members.

Fraternities and Sororities

  • Jean A. Jenkins oral history interview (1975)- introduction of the women's sorority system at Tech
  • U 82.3 Fraternities and Sororities Records, 1953-1977 and undated: This 1 wallet collection includes materials, primarily consisting of news clippings, pertaining to fraternity and sorority activities that were collected by Mrs. Hurley Carpenter.
  • See also U 14.1 James G. Allen Records, 1925-1969
Gargoyle Society
The purpose of this organization was to promote knowledge of art and architecture. It's members had to be registered for an architecture course.

High Riders
The High Riders is a women's spirit organization for Texas Tech University who helps to promote unity and support for the Women's Athletics Program as well as for other Texas Tech activities. The female counterpart to the Saddle Tramps, this group supports women's athletics. The High Riders became an official Tech support group on Nov. 2, 1976. They take part in parades and various campus events and ring the Victory Bells after women's teams win.

  • U 195.1 High Riders Records, 1976-1991: This 3 box collection contains 6 scrapbooks with photographs and news clippings detailing the High Riders' activities.   It also contains 17 sweaters of three different styles worn by the High Riders organization.
  • U 195.2 High Riders Records, undated: This is a 2 box collection.

Hispanic Student Society
Founded in 1968 by Hispanos who joined together to promote service to Texas Tech and the Lubbock Community, the Hispanic Student Society is the university's oldest Hispanic organization. Originally called Los Tortolianos, or "members of a club," the organization used to participate in different types of demonstrations and sit-ins, particularly in those where issues of racial discrimination and segregation were concerned.  In 1980, the organization changed its name to the United Mexican American Students (UMAS), which sought to promote friendship and leadership, and participated in many large Mexican dances and Mexican celebrations. A third name change occurred in the fall of 1984, when the organization became the Hispanic Student Society to reflect the change from its radical predecessors to its current conservative presence.

International Student Union

  • U 103.1 International Student Union Records, 1968-1972: This 1 wallet collection contains office files of the International Student Union.
Kappa Alpha Order Kappa Alpha Theta Kappa Kappa Gamma

Kappa Kappa Psi

Kemas (Phi Gamma Delta?)
Organized in 1932, the fraternity's name, Kemas, was an Indian word meaning friend.

Ko Shari Club
The Ko-Shari Club was a social organization for Texas Tech Co-eds. It was originally known as the Gadabout Club and later as Les Cigales. The club used southwestern Indian motifs, inspired by Adolph Bandalier's "The Delight Makers". It disbanded in 1952 when national sororities were established at Texas Tech.

  • U 104.1 Ko Shari Club Records, 1932-1985 and undated: This is a 1 wallet collection.
  • U 104.2 Ko Shari Club Records, 1932-1985: This is a 1 scrapbook collection.
  • U 105.1 Ko Shari Club Records, 1933-1950: This is a 4 scrapbook collection.
  • U 106.1 Ko Shari Club Records, 1927-1967: This is a 1 box collection.
  • William Curry Holden oral history interview- faculty (tape 1, 6/24/92) - talks about Ko Shari Club

Los Camaradas (Pi Kappa Alpha?)
The organization was founded in 1930 to promote a friendly relationship between its members and other students.

Masked Rider
As early as 1936, an unidentified masked rider, wearing a scarlet satin cape, circled the field on a "borrowed" palomino stallion, then rode off into the night to return his steed before anyone discovered its absence.  The Masked Rider tradition began officially in January 1, 1954, when Joe Kirk Fulton rode his horse on the field during the Gator Bowl at Jacksonville, Florida. Unofficially, the Masked Rider had been sneaking onto the Tech football field since the 1930’s and 1940’s. Since then the official masked rider has been a long time tradition for Texas Tech, and the rules for performance on the field has changed as well as the costume itself. About ten different horses have been trained for their activities on the football field.

The timeline for the various mascots and the horses they rode is as follows:  Joe Kirk Fulton (1953-56, he rode Blackie and Pretty Day); Douglas "Dink" Wilson (1964-66, he rode Charcoal Cody); Johnny Bob Carruth (1968-70, he Charcoal Cody); Tommy Martin (1970-71, he rode Charcoal Cody); Anne Lynch (1974-75, she rode Happy V); Jess Wall (1976-77, he rode Happy V); Larry Cade (1977-78, he rode Happy V); Kurt Harris (1981-82, he rode Happy VI-VII); Perry Joe Church (1982-83, he rode Happy VI-VII); Jennifer Aufill (1983-84, she rode Happy VI-VII); Kim Saunders (1987-88, she rode Midnight Raider); Tonya Tinnin (1989-90, she rode Midnight Raider); Blaine Lemons (1990-91, he rode Midnight Raider); Ralynn Key (1991-92; she rode Midnight Raider); Lisa Gilbreath (1993-95, she rode Double T); Amy Smart (1994-95, she rode Double T, Hoot Owl, and Two Bar Boy); Jolynn Self (1995-96, she rode High Red); Becky McDougal (1997-98, she rode High Red and Black Phantom Raider); and Dusty Abney (1998-99, he rode Black Phantom Raider).

Medical School- Tech Medical Spouse Association
The Texas Tech School of Medicine chapter of WA-SAMA (Women’s Auxiliary of the Student American Medical Association) formed in 1972. The chapter was not only the first medical student spouses’ organization at Texas Tech, but also the first WA-SAMA chapter in the state of Texas. A group of doctors’ wives from the Lubbock-Crosby-Garza medical auxiliary assisted in the formation of the Tech chapter of WA-SAMA.

National Youth Administration

  • U 126.1 National Youth Administration Records, 1935-1936: This 1 box collection concerns administration of a National Youth program of part-time employment for needy college students at Texas Tech during the Great Depression.

Panhellenic

  • U 131.1 Panhellenic Records, 1964-1976: This 1 box collection contains records of the Panhellenic Council, University Women’s Club, and Alpha Phi Omega.

Peace Corps

  • U 138.1 Peace Corps Records, 1966 and undated: This 2 wallet collection contains printed material concerning the Peace Corps from 1965-1966.

Phi Beta Mu

Phi Delta Theta

Phi Psi
Phi Psi Fraternity was started at the Philadelphia College of Textile Science in 1903. Chapters were created at other textile schools, including the Kappa Chapter at Texas Technological College in 1931. The fraternity promoted textile education and continued professionalism in a career in textile manufacturing. The Kappa chapter closed at Texas Tech due to the discontinuation of a textile engineering program and ensuing lack of textile students.

Raider Rojos

Residence Halls Association
The annual Carol of Lights event began in 1959, featuring the singing of Christmas carols and lighting of thousand of lights on campus buildings. The origins for the event came from Texas Tech's first Christmas in 1925, when a December Christmas pageant was held at the south end of the Administration bldg.

Rodeo Association
The Texas Tech Rodeo Association was established to promote collegiate interest in rodeo activities, continue the western heritage traditions, and to sponsor a inter-collegiate rodeo team.

Saddle Tramps
Organized in 1936, the Saddle Tramps was a created to promote school spirit, uphold college traditions, and help with athletic contests and pep rallies.

Sans Souci
Meaning "without care" in French, Sans Souci promoted was a women's social organization.

  • S ? Roberta Myrick Papers, 1931: This scrapbook is filled with news clippings, invitations, ticket stubs, programs, hand notes of events Myrick attended such as the San Souci club and Texas Tech alumni club.
  • See also U 14.1 James G. Allen Records, 1925-1969

Science Club

Socii (Sigma Nu?)
Formed in 1937, Socii was a social organization based after one that existed at Oxford University during the 18th century.

Silver Key
The fraternity was organized in 1929.

Student Association
Texas Tech Student Government Association is an organization working to meet the needs of Tech students, and consists of four main branches: the Executive Branch, the Legislative Branch, Freshman Council, and the Judicial Branch. Each part of the Student Government Association is continually working together to serve the needs of the student body. Additionally, it also serve as a liaison between the students and administrators as well as the city of Lubbock.  

  • Student Association Photographs
  • U 170.1 Student Association Records, 1966-1971: This 1 box collection contains materials of the Student Association, such as Supreme Court appointments, roster, minutes to meetings, senate files, Student Senate Legislative Bills, Senate handbook, photographs, and other financial material.
  • U 170.3 Student Association Records, 1977-1992: The 3 box collection consists of the organization's Constitution and a Student Bill of Rights, materials related to organizations funded, expensed budget summaries, and campus organizations spending histories.
  • U 170.4 Student Government Association Records, 1993-2001:  The 1 box collection consists of materials related to student elections and results, schedules, student senate and council meeting minutes, and planning information

Student Dairy Association Arm Patch
The Patch was used by the donor’s (Susan Kincaid) maternal grandfather, Raymond Reed, when he was a student at Texas Technological College in the 1920’s.

  • U 171.1 Student Dairy Association Arm Patch, 1920s: This 1 wallet collection contains a patch bearing the label "Texas Tech SDA".

Student Organization for Black Unity
The Student Organization for Black Unity was organized in 1967 as the student organization for unity and leadership.

Student Publications

  • Student Publications Photographs
  • U 175.1 Student Publications Records, 1937-1963: This 3 box collection contains negatives and transparencies produced by Texas Tech Students.  It also contains La Ventana negatives, photo logs, and a yearbook. 

Tau Beta Sigma

Tech Accounting Society

  • U 177.1 Tech Accounting Society Records, 1954-1975 and undated: This is a 1 box collection.

Women's Service Organization
The Women's Service Organization  (WSO) evolved from a 1959 committee of the Association of Women Students.  Its members continue to participate in a wide variety of campus projects.

  • U 232.1 Women's Service Organization Records, 1964-1998 and undated: This 2 box collection contains memorabilia, photographs and scrapbooks that were gathered by members over the years.
  • U 232.2 Women's Service Organization Scrapbooks, 1996-2004 and undated: This 3 box collection contains 14 scrapbooks documenting WSO activities, rush and pledges.
  • See also U 15.1 Alpha Phi Omega for WSO materials

Wranglers
The Wranglers fraternity was organized at Texas Tech on October 21, 1929 and continued until May 30, 1953.

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