Scope and Contents
This collection documents Hageman's lifelong involvement in social justice and ecumenical work, including her participation in international ministry through Frontier Internship in Mission, her founding of the Committee of Returned Volunteers and the Cuba Resource Center during the Cold War, her extensive involvement with the World Student Christian Federation. Her work and personal life are closely intertwined with other ecumenical women of the era, including Margaret Flory, for whom she organized a number of events. The collection provides valuable primary source documentation of the activities of the Committee of Returned Volunteers and other organizations during the late 1960s and early 1970s, including protests against the Vietnam war, U.S. engagement in Latin America, and other social justice issues. A complementary collection of Alice L. Hageman papers is held by the Wisconsin Historical Society.
Dates
- 1957 - 2014
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Alice L. Hageman, 2016
Arrangement
Arrangement
- Series I. Writings
- Series II. Sermons / Talks / Worship Materials
- Series III. Educational and Legal Work
- Series IV. Organizations Served
- Series V. Personal and Collected Material
Extent
5.5 Linear Feet (14 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Abstract
Correspondence, writings, pamphlets, notes, and other records document the activities of Alice Hageman, a social activist, attorney, and Presbyterian minister.
Biographical / Historical
Chronology of Alice L. Hageman
- 1937 June 12
- Alice Hageman born to Lillian Mac Little Hageman and Maurice Herman Hageman in Hightstown, New Jersey
- 1954-1958
- Attended College of Wooster. Spent a semester in Washington, D.C.
- 1958
- After graduation from college, spent summer traveling Europe and participated in a month-long World Council of Churches (WCC) work camp in Battersea, London, beginning her ecumenical career
- 1958
- Enrolled in Union Theological Seminary’s Master of Religious Education program (Manhattan, NY). Did field education in East Harlem Protestant Parish
- 1959-1960
- With Presbyterian Work and Study fellowship spent a year in Geneva gaining exposure to the world church. Studied at the University of Geneva (Geneva, Switzerland) and the Ecumenical Institute (Bossey, Switzerland.)
- 1959 December
- Ecumenical Student Conference on Christian World Mission took place in Athens, Ohio, planting the seed of the Frontier Internship in Mission (FIM) program
- 1960
- CIMADE (Comite Intermouvement Aupres Des Evacues) Internships in Coudekerque and Marseilles, France
- 1960 June
- First FIM intern appointed.
- 1960
- July: Helped organize the World Student Christian Federation's (WSCF) international teaching conference on the Life and Mission of the Church and attended as a steward. (Strasbourg, France)
- September: returned to Union Theological Seminary, this time as a Bachelor of Divinity student.
- 1961
- First FIM class of interns appointed.
- 1962
- Graduated with B.D. (M.Div) from Union Theological Seminary
- 1962-1965
- Participated in Frontier Internship in Mission program orchestrated by Margaret Flory and assigned the frontier of the “emerging international community” Served as WSCF representative at UNESCO (Paris, France)
- 1963 January
- Attended WSCF meeting in Brighton, England with Milan Opocensky
- 1963 summer
- Attended a consultation in Geneva between International Union of Students and WSCF, a rare exchange of ideas between Western Europe and those behind the Iron Curtain. Met future friends and colleagues from Cuba
- 1964 July
- Attended Christian Peace Conference as WSCF representative. Met future Cuban contacts. (Prague, Czech Republic)
- 1965
- Returned to U.S.
- 1966
- Moved back to Manhattan and began project under the auspices of the Ecumenical Foundation for Higher Education in Metropolitan New York. Began working with Aubrey Brown to organize former/returned Peace Corps volunteers to make known their experiences in third-world countries and to protest the Vietnam War
- 1966 December
- Committee of Returned Volunteers (CRV) convened formally for the first time and chose its name. As part of CRV, Alice participated in protests, rallies, and demonstrations, and helped write position papers on Southeast Asia and Latin America.
- 1967
- CRV published position paper on Vietnam, sparking development of other CRV chapters around the country.
- 1968 Spring
- Participated with CRV graduate student members in protest/”occupation” at Columbia University.
- 1968 August
- Attended the Democratic Convention as a demonstrator/protester and was tear-gassed by police. (Chicago, IL)
- 1969 June
- Together with three colleagues, terminated from their campus ministry positions with the Ecumenical Foundation for outspokenness against the Vietnam War. As a CRV delegate, Hageman used her remaining EF travel budget to travel to Cuba, despite the absence of diplomatic relations between Cuba and the U.S. In Cuba, she toured the island, tended banana plants, and worked at a coffee plantation. She cultivated an interest in gender issues. She returned to the U.S. on a fishmeal/sugar freighter bound for Canada.
- 1969-1971
- Co-founded and served as a director of the Cuba Resource Center (CRC) to facilitate the exchange of resources between U.S. and Cuba. As CRC staff, she produced publications, started a newsletter, and organized three ecumenical trips to Cuba. . Edited book (Religion in Cuba Today: New Church in a New Society.)
- 1970
- Helped secure Campaigns for United Ministries in Higher Education funds for a campus ministry women’s caucus (forerunner of the WSCF Women’s Project in North America).
- 1971
- Moved to Boston, MA for a one-year Danforth campus ministries grant. (Jamaica Plain, Boston)
- 1972
- Lentz Lecturer on women and ministry, Harvard Divinity School. Edited book (Sexist Religion and Women in the Church).
- 1972-1986
- Participated in team ministry at Church of the Covenant. (Back Bay, Boston, MA)
- 1974-1977
- Attended Northeastern University Law School.
- 1975
- Ordained as Presbyterian minister.
- 1977-1989
- Graduated with a J.D. from Northeastern University Law School. Joined a community law practice and practiced law for 12 years
- 1979
- CRC ceased operations
- 1980
- Filed a Freedom of Information Act request and received a heavily redacted FBI file documenting her activities since her time in Cuba
- 1989-2001
- Served as assistant bar counsel of the Board of Bar Overseers of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts prosecuting lawyers for professional misconduct.
- 2005
- Married CRV colleague Aubrey N. Brown III (who died in 2015.)
- 2016
- As of 2016 was serving as a U.S. Trustee of WSCF responsible for follow-up with Senior Friends and fundraising in the organization's second century.
Source
- Title
- Guide to the Alice L. Hageman Papers
- Author
- Martha Lund Smalley
- Date
- 2017
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
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