PAULEY, FRANCES FREEBORN, 1905-2003.
Frances Freeborn Pauley papers > Other affiliations files

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Frances Pauley served as vice-president of the DeKalb Clinic, located at 318 East Howard Street in Decatur, from circa. 1940 to 1946. The Clinic provided general medical care, including dental and pediatric, to people who were unable to afford such services otherwise. The Clinic was funded by donations from individuals, organizations, and the county. One of its major projects was a Child Health Program, which sought to establish an adequately equipped lunchroom in every county school. The Clinic also sponsored a school lunch program, which supplied free lunches to some 800 county school children of indigent families. These files include annual reports, donor records, and clippings for the years 1940-1946.

The Committee on School Lunch Participation, based in Baltimore Maryland, sought to promote the full participation of children from low income families in the National School Lunch Program. The Committee conducted a nationwide study of the National School Lunch Program from 1967 to 1968 to learn how greater participation could be achieved. The study was sponsored by five volunteer agencies: Church Women United, National Board of the YWCA, National Council of Catholic Women, National Council of Jewish Women, and National Council of Negro Women. These files document Frances Pauley's activities as a consultant for the project in the South. Travelling from state to state, she conducted interviews with school lunch administrators, and coordinated the work of other volunteers in the region.

The Gillespie Selden Community Center, located in Cordele, in southwest Georgia's Crisp county, was originally founded as a mission by the Presbyterian Church in 1902. Becoming a community center in the fifties, it provided a variety of services including adult education classes, day care, recreational activities, and a library. These files include minutes, financial records, and correspondence relating to Pauley's involvement with the Center as a member of the Board of Directors from 1967 to 1971.

The Georgia Forum was organized in 1985 as an affiliate of the American Forum to study educational, political, and social issues of particular interest to Georgians through the preparation and dissemination of articles to the local media, i.e., newspapers, television, and radio.

The work of the Forum was supervised by an editorial board which was responsible for generating article ideas, contacting potential authors, scheduling publication dates, and fundraising. Once topics were selected for articles an editorial board member was assigned to "shepherd" the piece. The shepherd was responsible for developing a synopsis of the story to assist the author in understanding the concept sought by the editorial board. Then the shepherd edited the author's first draft. The final version was then reviewed by the full board.

As an editorial board member, Frances Pauley contributed her own articles, including one on the budgetmaking process and the state's sunshine laws (see Box 76:folder 11, 19 February 1987), and shepherded op-eds on various topics including AIDS, daycare, foodstamps, homelessness, prisons, and emergency heating. These files include minutes, correspondence, articles, and clippings relating to Pauley's association with the Georgia Forum.