Renewed Hearts Club, Inc. records and scrapbooks
MSS.176
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Ball State University Archives and Special Collections
Alexander M. Bracken Library
2000 W. University Avenue
Muncie, Indiana, 47306
765-285-5078
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Renewed Hearts Club, Inc. records and scrapbooks MSS.176
Table of Contents
Summary Information ................................................................................................................................. 3
Administrative History...................................................................................................................................4
Scope and Contents....................................................................................................................................... 4
Arrangement...................................................................................................................................................5
Administrative Information .........................................................................................................................5
Controlled Access Headings..........................................................................................................................6
Collection Inventory...................................................................................................................................... 7
Series 1: Renewed Hearts Club, Inc. subject files, 1983-1997...............................................................7
Series 2: Renewed Hearts Club, Inc. scrapbooks, undated.....................................................................8
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Renewed Hearts Club, Inc. records and scrapbooks MSS.176
Summary Information
Repository
Ball State University Archives and Special Collections
Creator
Renewed Hearts of Muncie, Inc..
Title
Renewed Hearts Club, Inc. records and scrapbooks
Date
1983-1997
Extent
1.0 Cubic feet 3 boxes
Language
English
Preferred Citation
Renewed Hearts Club, Inc. records and scrapbooks, Archives and Special Collections, Ball State
University Libraries
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Renewed Hearts Club, Inc. records and scrapbooks MSS.176
Administrative History
The idea for the Renewed Hearts Club, Inc. originated with Dale Fight, a retired local shoe salesman. As
a result of a talk with his doctors, Richard Murrell and Paul Powers, Mr. Fight, who had heart surgery in
1981, contacted 48 other people who had survived similar surgeries and set up an organizational meeting
that drew 78 people. The club, first named the Mended Hearts Club, was formed as a support group for
men and women anticipating open-heart surgery. A branch of a Dallas, Texas national organization,
the local club severed connection with that group in 1984 because funds raised locally had to be sent to
national headquarters. The club, renamed the Renewed Hearts Club of Muncie, Indiana, grew to include
200 members at one time.
Hospital visitations to pre-surgery heart patients continued to be its central focus. A 12 member board
of directors governed the group which met in the First Baptist Church until February 1990; Normal
City United Methodist Church until 1995 and then in the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church until the group
disbanded in 1997. Club members heard programs by experts in health related fields. They also had
bazaars, rummage sales and other fund-raisers. They held summer picnics and holiday dinners and kept in
contact with each other through a monthly newsletter entitled Heart Links. John Hood served as the editor
of Heart Links from 1983-1985; Bob Strohm served as an interim editor until Adaline Eastman took over
from 1985-1997.
A gift by Hollis Clevenger’s family in his memory in 1983 led to the establishment of the Renewed
Hearts Memorial Trust Fund. After lengthy discussion, the Fund was used to establish a scholarship to
assist needy students in Ball State’s School of Nursing. By 1991, the scholarship fund was fully funded
with a principal of more than $5000 and is still currently active even though the club disbanded at a final
luncheon held December 19, 1997. The club curtailed activities because their main objective continued to
be pre-surgery visits, but with the advance of medical technology, pre-surgery hospital stays are now very
brief and members found it increasingly difficult to contact pre-surgery heart patients.
Excerpts from Betty Harris article, “Hearts of Gold” Star Press, 6 January 1998, p. 2D
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of minutes of meetings, 1984-1997; newsletters, Heart Links, 1983-1997, minutes
of board of directors’ meetings, financial records, correspondence and some membership lists.
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Arrangement
This collection is arranged in the following series:
Series 1: Renewed Hearts Club, Inc. subject files, 1983-1997
Series 2: Renewed Hearts Club, Inc. scrapbooks, undated
Administrative Information
Publication Information
Ball State University Archives and Special Collections
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Legal title, copyright, and literary rights reside with Archives and Special Collections, Ball State
University Libraries, Muncie, IN. All requests to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to
Archives and Special Collections.
Custodial History
This collection was received by Archives and Special Collections as a donation from Adeline Eastman
1997/02/04.
Accruals
No further additions are expected.
Processing Information
EAD finding aid created 2012/10/12 by Julie Hausknecht. EAD finding aid revised 2013/10/28 by
Rebecca Marangelli.
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Controlled Access Headings
Genre(s)
• Documents
• Newsletters
Geographic Name(s)
• Delaware County (Ind.)
• Muncie (Ind.)
Subject(s)
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Health
Heart--Surgery
Organizations
Stoeckel Archives of Local History
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Series 1: Renewed Hearts Club, Inc. subject files, 1983-1997
Collection Inventory
Series 1: Renewed Hearts Club, Inc. subject files, 1983-1997
Board of directors minutes, 1984-1991
Board members, 1990-1992
Brochures, undated
Budget, 1989-1991
Correspondence, 1988-1994
Financial records, 1989-1991
History, 1998
Meeting minutes, 1984-1987
Meeting minutes, 1989-1991
Meeting minutes, 1992-1997
Membership card, 1992
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Box
Folder
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3
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Series 2: Renewed Hearts Club, Inc. scrapbooks, undated
Membership lists, 1984-1997
Memorial of Thelma Scates Steward, 1991
Newsletters, 1983-1988
Newsletters, 1989-1992
Newsletters, 1993-1997
Visitation committee guidelines, undated
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Box
Object
2
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Series 2: Renewed Hearts Club, Inc. scrapbooks, undated
Scrapbook, undated
Scrapbook, undated
Scrapbook, undated
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