MS16-09 Merryman Kemp Papers

Collection Title: Merryman Kemp Papers

Series Number: MS16-09

Processed and Cataloged by: Sarai Dunn

Date Span: 1920s - 2010s

Size of Collection: 12.5 linear feet.

Number of Boxes: 25

Type of Material: Correspondence, newspaper articles, photographs, ephemera

Arrangement: Chronological arrangement

Biographical / Historical Information: J. Merryman Kemp is the founder of the Merryman House in Paducah, Kentucky. She was born at Dyersburg, Tennessee in 1934. She is a leader in the Paducah Democratic Party. In 1988 and 1992, she was a delegate in the Democratic National Convention. Kemp is a strong believer in equal rights; therefore, she supported the ERA. She was a member of many democratic and women’s clubs in Paducah. These clubs include the Business and Professional Women’s Club, the Twenty-First Century Democratic Club, the Alben Barkley Democratic Club, the Democratic Women’s Club and the Women’s Club of Paducah. In 1988, Merryman Kemp founded the Kemp Financial Services, which would later be called Kemp Financial Management, LLC.

Scope and Content: Collection consists of correspondence, handwritten notes and photographs. It contains papers on the Business and Professional Women’s Club, Twenty-First Century Democratic Club, Alben Barkley Democratic Club, Democratic Women’s Club and the Women’s Club of Paducah. Includes information from political figures and events.

Box 1:  Business and Professional Women’s Club

1. Business and Professional Women’s Club
2. Business and Professional Women’s Club (cont.)
3. Agenda 1980s
4. Agenda 1990s
5. Agenda 2000s-Unknown
6. Articles
7. Articles (cont.)
8. Awards
9. “Between the Rivers”
10. Brochures
11. “Business Woman”
12. Bylaws
13. Candidates Forum
14. Certificates

Box 2:  Business and Professional Women’s Club

1. Clippings
2. Contract
3. Contact Info
4. Conventions
5. Convention May 21-23, 1999
6. Convention May 18-20, 2001
7. Director’s Minutes 1928-1930
8. Directors Meeting Minute Book 1937-1945
9. Diversity on the Go 2000-2002
10. Diversity on the Go October 2004-June 2006
11. Diversity on the Go July 2006-December 2007
12. Diversity on the Go January 2008-January 2009

Box 3:  Business and Professional Women’s Club

1. Ephemera
2. Equal Pay
3. Etiquette
4. Events
5. Exposition 1935
6. “Express Lines”
7. Famous Kentucky Women
8. History
9. Individual Development
10. Interim Board
11. Interim Board 2000
12. Interim Board 2001
13. Interim Board Meeting 2002
14. Interim Board Meeting 2005
15. Leadership Manual 1989-1990
16. Leadership Manual 1990-1991

Box 4:  Business and Professional Women’s Club

1. Leadership Manual 1999-2000
2. Leadership Manual 2002-2003
3. Leadership Manual 2005-2006
4. Leadership Tools
5. Legislation
6. Legislative Award
7. Legislative Platform 2002
8. Legislative Platform 2003-2004
9. Legislative Report 1989
10. Legislative Report 2002-2003
11. Legislative Report 2004-2005
12. Making Workplaces Work
13. Manual
14. Meeting Info 1928-1930

Box 5:  Business and Professional Women’s Club

1. Membership Lists
2. Misc.
3. Misc. 2
4. Minutes 1924-1928
5. Minutes 1928-1931
6. Minutes 1980s
7. Minutes 1990s
8. Minutes 2000s-Unknown
9. “National Business Woman”
10. “National Business Women’s Week”

Box 6:  Business and Professional Women’s Club

1. Newsletter
2. Notes
3. Notes (cont.)
4. Photos
5. Political Action Committees Guide
6. Political Campaign Handbook
7. Presentation Sheets
8. Programs
9. Rape Crisis Centers

Box 7:  Business and Professional Women’s Club

1. Regular Business Meeting Minute Book 1937-1944
2. Releases
3. Reports 1924-1940
4. Reports 1965-Unknown
5. Scrapbooking Clips
6. Share Committee
7. Strategic Plan
8. “The Bulletin” 1980s
9. “The Bulletin” 1990s-2000s
10. “The Estate Planner”
11. “The Kentucky Cardinal” 1940-April 1962
12. “The Kentucky Cardinal” May 1962-October 1964

Box 8:  Business and Professional Women’s Club

1. “The Kentucky Cardinal” 1981-2000
2. “The Kentucky Cardinal” 2001-2007
3. “The Kentucky Cardinal” Info
4. “The Network”
5. Treasurer’s Info
6. Treasurer’s Info (cont.)
7. Women’s Use on Health Care
8. Young Careerist

Box 9:  Correspondence

1. Correspondence 1920
2. Correspondence 1921
3. Correspondence 1923
4. Correspondence 1924
5. Correspondence 1925
6. Correspondence 1926
7. Correspondence 1927
8. Correspondence 1928
9. Correspondence 1929
10. Correspondence 1930
11. Correspondence 1931
12. Correspondence 1932
13. Correspondence 1933
14. Correspondence 1935
15. Correspondence 1950
16. Correspondence 1954
17. Correspondence 1970
18. Correspondence 1978
19. Correspondence 1979
20. Correspondence 1980
21. Correspondence 1981
22. Correspondence 1982
23. Correspondence 1983
24. Correspondence 1984
25. Correspondence 1985
26. Correspondence 1986
27. Correspondence 1987
28. Correspondence January-July 7, 1988

Box 10:  Correspondence

1. Correspondence July 8-Unknown 1988
2. Correspondence 1989
3. Correspondence 1990
4. Correspondence January-April 1991
5. Correspondence May-December 1991
6. Correspondence January-August 1992
7. Correspondence September-December 1992
8. Correspondence January-June 1993
9. Correspondence July-December 1993

Box 11:  Correspondence

1. Correspondence 1994
2. Correspondence 1995
3. Correspondence 1996
4. Correspondence 1997
5. Correspondence 1998
6. Correspondence 1999
7. Correspondence 2000
8. Correspondence January-March 2001
9. Correspondence April-December 2001

Box 12:  Correspondence

1. Correspondence 2002
2. Correspondence 2003
3. Correspondence 2004
4. Correspondence 2005
5. Correspondence 2006
6. Correspondence 2007
7. Correspondence 2008-2015
8. Correspondence Unknown
9. Correspondence Unknown (Cont.)

Box 12A:  Education/Emancipation/Family

1. Child Care
2. Career Transition Center
3. Emancipation Celebration 1996
4. Emancipation Celebration 1999
5. Family Self Sufficiency
6. Kentucky Tomorrow
7. NAACP
8. Preparatory Services
9. Spouse Abuse Centers
10. Teaching Strategies
11. “Teaching Tolerance”
12. Ten Ways to Fight Hate
13. The West Kentucky News
14. West Kentucky Technical College
15. Youth Salute
16. YWCA

Box 13:  Human Rights Commission

1. Human Rights Commission
2. Agenda
3. Annual Report 1986-1987
4. Annual Report 1988-1989
5. Civil Rights Act
6. Director’s Reports
7. “Human Rights Report”
8. Members
9. Minutes
10. Notes
11. Staff Report August 1985
12. Staff Report June 1986
13. Staff Report September 1986

Box 14:  Insurance

1. Insurance
2. Anthem (1999-2000)
3. Benefit Management Systems, Inc.
4. BISYS (2000-2001)
5. Blue Cross
6. Ceres Group, Inc.
7. CNA Life (2000)
8. Conseco (2000-2001)
9. First Colony Life Insurance Company
10. Fortis Insurance Company (2001)
11. GE Financial Assurance
12. Health Care Campaign
13. Home Life Insurance Company (1991)
14. IBM
15. Info on COBRA
16. Info on HR 676 (2003)
17. Jack Benz and Associates, Inc. (2002)
18. Kemp Financial Services
19. Magazines and Articles (1995, 2000-2002)
20. Medicare & You (2000)
21. MedLink (2000-2001)
22. Midwest Mergers and Acquisitions
23. PALU
24. PALU-Awards Guideline
25. PALU-Newsletter
26. PALU-Speakers Directory 1989
27. Pamphlets on tests (1998)
28. Protective Prescription Plan
29. Retirement Plans
30. Security Life of Denver (2008)
31. Select Benefits
32. Shaw American Financial Corporation (2002)
33. Southland Life Insurance
34. United American Insurance Company (1999-2000)
35. United Healthcare 2000
36. USA Financial
37. Van Kampen
38. Wealth Guardian
39. Welfare Information Network

Box 15:  Misc.

1. Advertisement
2. “Agri-News”
3. Articles-Misc.
4. “CarrerLink”
5. Christian Coalition
6. Clippings
7. Club Announcements
8. “Connections”
9. Contacts
10. Friday Alert
11. Fundraising-Max Hobbs
12. Fundraising-The American Funds
13. “In Context”
14. “Kentucky Woman”
15. Land Between the Lakes
16. “Lone Oak News”
17. Misc.
18. Misc. 2
19. Nominating Forms
20. Notes
21. “Outreach”
22. Paducah Art Guild
23. Polk
24. Portfolio
25. P.R.I.M.E.
26. Resume
27. “Smoke Signal”
28. “Status”
29. “Stepping Out”
30. “The Bulletin of the Kentucky Historical Society”
31. “TriadNews”

Box 16:  Politics

1. Al Gore
2. Alben Barkley Democratic Club
3. Alben Barkley Democratic Club-Agenda
4. Alben Barkley Democratic Club-Clippings
5. Alben Barkley Democratic Club-Minutes
6. Alben Barkley Democratic Club-Newsletter
7. Alben Barkley Democratic Club-Notes
8. Alben Barkley Democratic Club-Releases
9. Articles
10. Bob Babbage
11. Candidate Biographical Sheets
12. Chris Gorman
13. Clinton-Gore Campaign Materials
14. Clintons
15. Clippings
16. Contact Info

Box 17:  Politics

1. Contact Info (cont.)
2. Delegate Seletion Plan 1988
3. Democratic Candidates 1986
4. Democratic Candidates 1991
5. Democratic Candidates 1995
6. Democratic Candidates 1996
7. Democratic Candidates 2000
8. Democratic National Convention 1988
9. Democratic National Convention 1992
10. Democratic Presidential Election 1988
11. Democratic Women’s Club
12. Democratic Women’s Club-Agenda
13. Democratic Women’s Club-Application
14. Democratic Women’s Club-Booklet
15. Democratic Women’s Club-Convention

Box 18:  Politics

1. Democratic Women’s Club-Magazine
2. Democratic Women’s Club-Minutes
3. Democratic Women’s Club-Proposed Amendments
4. “Democratic Women’s Club of Kentucky”
5. Dennis Null
6. Department of Agriculture
7. Ed Whitfield
8. ERA
9. “Faces and Facts”
10. Fred Cowan
11. Gary C. Griesser
12. Gender Equity
13. George Bush
14. “Get the Facts”
15. “Grassroots”
16. “Grassroots Campaign Training” Booklet
17. “Grassroots Activist Training” Booklet
18. HB 161
19. Helen Garrett
20. Helen Garrett Articles
21. Helen Garrett Campaign Plan

Box 19:  Politics

1. Helen Garrett Volunteers and Contact Info
2. Higher Education Amendments
3. House Bill 263
4. H.R. 3734
5. Jack Johnson
6. Jim Byford
7. Jim Wayne
8. Kentucky Democratic Party
9. Kentucky Women’s Political Caucus
10. Larry Forgy
11. Larry O’Bryan
12. League of Women Voters
13. Legislative Update
14. Lee Steers
15. Lee Steers Contact Info
16. Lee Steers Possible Givers
17. Lee Steers Target Report
18. Magazines
19. Mary Ray Oaken
20. Mary Ruth Brannon
21. Mayor-Council Plan
22. McCracken County Democrats
23. McCracken County Democrats-Election Finance Statement
24. McCracken County Democrats-Notices
25. McCracken County Democrats-Report of Receipts
26. McCracken County Democrats-Resolution
27. Michael J. Greene
28. Misc.
29. Newspapers
30. Notes

Box 20:  Politics

1. Occupation Info
2. Opportunity Loan Fund
3. Paul Patton
4. Politics
5. Power ‘98
6. Prefiled Bills November 2, 1995
7. Proclamations
8. Public Service Seminar
9. Releases
10. Rick Johnson
11. Statistics
12. Steve Hamrick
13. Steve Henry
14. Steve Henry-Contacts
15. Steve Henry-Notes
16. Steven L. Beshear
17. The ’96 Project
18. “The Chairman’s Briefing”
19. “The Democratic Voice”
20. “The National Conference on Girls, Women and Money”
21. Tom Barlow
22. Tom Brook
23. Twenty-First Century Democratic Club
24. Twenty-First Century Democratic Club-Agenda
25. Twenty-First Century Democratic Club-Announcements
26. Twenty-First Century Democratic Club-Articles
27. Twenty-First Century Democratic Club-Bylaws
28. Twenty-First Century Democratic Club-Constitution
29. Twenty-First Century Democratic Club-Minutes
30. Twenty-First Century Democratic Club-Releases
31. Voting Info
32. Voting Info-Committee

Box 21:  Politics

1. Voting Info-Master County Voter Lists of Democrats Arcadia-Country Club
2. Voting Info-Master County Voter Lists of Democrats Florence Station-Jetton
3. Voting Info-Master County Voter Lists of Democrats Lang-Maxon
4. Voting Info-Master County Voter Lists of Democrats New Hope-Paxton Park
5. Voting Info-Master County Voter Lists of Democrats Reed-Savage
6. Voting Info-Master County Voter Lists of Democrats Wallace Park-Yancy
7. Voting Info-Precinct Lists Arcadia-Paxton Park
8. Voting Info-Precinct Lists Reed-Concord
9. Voting Info-Precinct Lists Florence-Hovekamp
10. Voting Info-Precinct Lists Lamont-Oak Station
11. Voting Info-Precinct Lists Ragland-Woodville
12. Voting Info-State Board of Elections Lists
13. Welfare
14. Wendell H. Ford
15. Will Shadoan
16. Women
17. Women’s Equity Action League

Box 22:  Women

1. Equality Products
2. Kentucky Commission on Women
3. Kentucky Women Advocates
4. TWN-PAN
5. Women
6. Women-Brochures
7. Women-Clippings
8. Women-Clippings (cont.)
9. Women-Contacts
10. Women-Sex Equity in Sports
11. Women Aware
12. Women Aware-Clippings
13. Women Aware-Contacts
14. Women Aware-Notes

Box 23:  Women

1. Woman’s Club of Paducah
2. Woman’s Club of Paducah (Cont.)
3. Woman’s Club of Paducah (Cont. 2)
4. Woman’s Club of Paducah – Art Show
5. Woman’s Club of Paducah – Art Show (Cont.)

Box 24:  Women

1. Woman’s Club of Paducah – Guest Books
2. Woman’s Club of Paducah – Newspaper Clippings
3. Woman’s Club of Paducah – Newspaper Clippings (Cont.)
4. Woman’s Club of Paducah – “The Kentucky Clubwoman” (Fall 2000-Winter 2003)
5. Woman’s Club of Paducah – “The Kentucky Clubwoman” (Fall 2004-Unknown)
6. Woman’s Club of Paducah - Yearbook
7. Women’s Coalition