The Cherry Waldrep Clements Collection contains notes, papers, correspondence, books, photographs and university publications from Cherry Clement's academic life at Georgia State College for Women from 1931 to 1933. Also included in the collection are documents, correspondence and awards from her years in the public school system and her various volunteer and public service activities. The processed collection spans approximately five and one-half cubic feet of materials. When the Clements papers arrived in Special Collections they were loosely organized. Most materials had been collected by Mrs. Clements into file folders.
The papers may have been in chronological order at some point, but since not all the papers were dated, chronological arrangement proved difficult. The materials from her Alumni Association presidency were grouped together in two folders unordered. Some bound notes and papers were removed from their respective binders. All photographs were scanned and preserved electronically. Newspaper clippings were preserved as photocopies. To create some logical order in the collection, all the papers were arranged to reflect a chronology of events of Mrs. Clements's life, beginning with her stay at GSCW, her years as a teacher, and her post-retirement activism. Box 1 contains her personal and professional correspondence, photos etc., in chronological order; miscellaneous and/or unrelated items are included at the end of the file. Box 1 – Correspondence, photographs and other printed materials Box 2 – College textbooks, cookbooks, awards Box 3 – Framed portrait, awards, class record books Box 4 – Scrapbooks Box 5 – Clothing