Calhoun Yacht Club Records

This collection contains Calhoun Yacht Club meeting minutes, annual yearbooks, membership applications, photographs and slides, newspaper clippings, financial statements, race results, and promotional material for regattas and club social events. The collection is divided into 5 series with the bulk of the material from 1960-1994. The general series is organized alphabetically, while the chronological series, annual yearbooks, and media series are all organized by year.

Early club records, from 1901 to 1950, can be found in three ledger books featuring finances and meeting minutes. Later records, from 1961 to 2015, are in chronological folders or annual yearbooks. The yearbooks provide an easy entry point to the collection, highlighting annual social events, regatta results, pictures, and club rosters. Annual yearbooks and newsletters of the Inland Lake Yachting Association, a regional sailing organization, are also included. There is a small section on the Calhoun Yacht Club in each yearbook. This collection also contains occasional correspondence with the city, detailing the club’s advocacy of policy and development around Lake Calhoun (later Bde Maka Ska).

The media series includes many sailing photographs and slides. There is also a DVD presentation celebrating the club’s centennial in 2001.