Since the Fellowship Forum was founded in 1950, much of its history has been lost. In 1970, a committee was formed to document the history as best it could from the documents that were then available. This resulted in a rich narrative of the first 20 years.
In 1997, another committee was appointed to update the history. Unfortunately, not much resulted from that effort.
In April, 2010, a third committee was formed. A call went out to the membership requesting any historical documents that still existed. Though much has understandably been discarded over the years, a past treasurer - Charlie Mitchell, now deceased - had stored in his garage for many years 3 large cartons that contained a surprisingly rich cache of useful information.
To try to prevent the loss of this treasure, or dependance on the willingness of another member to replicate Charlie's generous allocation of garage or attic space to Forum paper, the contents of the 3 cartons have been scanned and/or summarized for storage in "the cloud".
Below are links to the result of this effort.
This provides a guide to the history documents and a brief summary of their contents.
This is a delightful history of the Forum's first 20 years, well and lovingly written in 1970.
Each of the available yearbooks can be read here.
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53 - N/A |
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Yearly Statistics from YearbooksThose marked N/A are not available |
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Most of the By-Laws publications are only summarized, but those from 1974 and 1983 are complete.
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This table provides insights into many aspects of Forum activities through the years, deduced from expense records, supplemented by Program records.
The above records of programs are abstracted from the yearbooks.
For more recent programs, see the Fellowship Forum home page.
This Excel spreadsheet lists all the members and for each his profession(s) and specialization(s). It will download.
Long time members were interviewed in pairs to record their recollections of the Forum experiences.
This page links to all the Fellowship Forum history files, which are stored as part of the Forum website. However, the website is hosted by a paid service maintained by the Forum Webmaster. In the event that maintenance of the website ever ceases, access to its files will also cease. Therefore, copies are also stored on free services independent of ongoing maintenance. Access may be less convenient, but is possible.
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