These committees served both administrative and social functions. The General Council Secretaries, the Group of Eight, and Senior Secretaries all describe basically the same group of decision makers at different times. The Group of Eight was seen as the senior management committee of the Church, comprising the General Council and Division Secretaries, with responsibility for channeling policies and priorities through the Church, monitoring operations and ensuring accountability of the Divisions, and acting as a body to recommend to General Council the assignment of particular responsibilities. Officers of Church House (OUCH) was a body called together by the Moderator, consisting of all officers appointed by General Council, and was largely a consultative body that attempted to provide cooperation in the conduct of their several responsibilities, and in understanding the overall mission of the Church. The Group of Twenty was comprised of the General Council Secretariat, the Division Secretaries, and the Conference Executive Secretaries; its task was primarily to monitor the accountability of Conferences and General Council to the Church's policies and priorities. Club 85, originally the Gift and Flower Club, was organized by women working in Church House, primarily as a benevolent organization that became a social and support group. It was disbanded in 1981.
Series consists of minutes, correspondence, and reports of the following bodies: General Council Secretaries (including records of the Group of Eight), 1978-1983; Group of Twenty, 1976-1984; Senior Secretaries, 1969-1980; Administrative Officers, 1975-1990; Officers of Church House (OUCH), 1961-1972; and Club 85, 1961-1980; files re a committee on smoking in the work place. Includes two photographs of retirement teas.
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