Miscellaneous, 1930-1996 and undated

This series contains 35 various items including Meserand's employee, membership and press identification cards from: NBC (1930 and 1931); WOR (1941); the United Nations (radio pass) (1943 and 1948); press passes for the Democratic and Republican national conventions of 1948; and membership cards from AWRT (1951 and 1952). Also contains:

Press release from the Library of Congress (re: WOR donation), 1984; a certificate to Jane Barton from the US Navy Affairs Alumni Association (undated); several of Meserand's business cards; notes titled "Weaver/Tinker Interview—April 22, 1989"; and two financial/stock statements, both 1996.

One red-covered, spiral-bound notebook, handwritten in by Meserand, documenting various gifts given by her, to whom and the gift's cost. The dates in this notebook range from 1966-1974.

Various documents pertaining to WOR's "Ten Year Club," a WOR-TV Price List (c. 1951), and a delicate pencil sketch of Meserand, c. 1931.

Contains seven printed programs for events, dinners, meetings, etc., held by the following: the Institute for Education by Radio (1944 and 1948); Reception for Cardinal Spellman (1946); Institute on Hospital Public Relations; and the 18th BMI Program Clinic (1952).

Materials (24 items total, including correspondence and clippings) about a humming bird named "Bitsy" that Meserand kept as a pet in the early 1940s. Meserand later used this bird as inspiration for a proposed book. Included are rough drafts of the text of the book and some feedback from potential publishers.

Collection of eight poems, some typed and some torn from magazines, by the poets Jean Rogers Wilson, Bill Gebert and others. Also includes an original "prose poem," "Moonlight Sonata," written by Meserand herself. It was published in Radio Digest in October of 1931 and that magazine page is enclosed.