The Retired Teachers Club of Springfield, Illinois began in 1940 and is still active. They were sometimes known as the Retired Teachers Club of Springfield and Sangamon County. In the late 1980s or early 1990s the club changed its name to the Springfield Area Retired Teachers Club. The club’s year ran from fall through spring.
The collection includes club yearbooks 1950s-2014 (some missing), meeting minutes 1940-2014 (some missing), treasurer’s reports/finances 1960s-2015 (some missing), correspondence, program information, membership and retirement (potential membership) information, and necrology reports of obituaries, people in the news, and cards sent 2004-May 2015.