Notebook: Proposed Cultural Programs and Agendas for Board of Directors, Officers, and Annual Meetings, 1950-1958

The bulk of this series consists of minutes from annual, board of directors, and officers' meetings, with some minutes of the Chevra(h) committee also included. Topics include IMAS's efforts to make contact with new immigrants and to reach out to needy members, High Holy Days services, and social events such as the society's annual Chanukah ball. Efforts to provide care for elderly members, and to purchase cemetery lots, are also documented here, as is the establishment of IMAS's Mutual Aid Fund with a grant from United Help, Inc. in 1960. Also included are IMAS's original by-laws, setting forth IMAS's initial objectives, which were to assist immigrants in adjusting to life in a new country and becoming useful citizens of that country, to encourage the study of the language, laws, and customs of the United States, and to provide a place of burial for its members, [and] to hold and receive property, whether real or personal, maintain it and disburse money for above purposes. (In later years the society also sought to preserve the cultural heritage of its members.) Additional materials consist of meeting announcements, by-laws from later years, a speech given by Fritz (James M.) Jacoby, and handwritten lists of board members and proposed programs.