Philip Menninger Papers

Abstract: The Philip Menninger papers contain a variety of organizational records documenting Menninger's involvement with several Shawnee County social and charitable organizations. The organizations include the Lions Club District 17AE, Boys and Girls Club of America, Kaw Valley Bicycle Touring Club, Topeka Bicycle Federation, Topeka Bicycle Advisory Board, the Topeka Tinman Triathlon, and the Shawnee County Association for Children with Learning Disabilities. The records include meeting minutes, newsletters, and correspondence documenting organizational activities. The correspondence pertaining to the triathlon largely discusses the event's organization. Records of the various bicycle organizations also concern biking events, as well as bicycle laws and regulations. Records of the Boys' and Girls' Club of America discuss changing the name to add "girls" to the organization. The records are organized by organization name and date.

Biog. Sketch (Full): Philip Bratton Menninger was born in 1928 to Dr. William C. and Catherine Menninger. In 1959 he married Georgia Wilma Haid. He received his degrees in business administration and, like his brothers, applied his talents to the work of the Foundation. He was a Menninger trustee for 40 years and on the administrative staff in various capacities, such as director of development services and director of employee wellness. He also served in a variety of social clubs around Topeka such as the Lions Club District 17AE, Boys and Girls Club of America, Kaw Valley Bicycle Touring Club, Topeka Bicycle Federation, Topeka Bicycle Advisory Board, the Topeka Tinman Triathlon, and the Shawnee County Association for Children with Learning Disabilities. Menninger served as the editor of the Topeka Lions Visitation News, as well as the vice president of the local Boys' and Girls' Club of America.

Related materials: Menninger Family Archives, Manuscript Collection 90; Menninger Archives, manuscripts collection 786; Kansas Lions Club Records; Tinman Triathlon Records; Kaw Valley Bicycle Touring Association Records, State Archives and Library Division, Kansas Historical Society.

Ownership/Custodial Hist.: Philip Menninger throughout the early 1990s donated to the Kansas Historical Society from his private papers. In 2003 the Kansas Historical Society received the Menninger Archives when the Menninger Foundation moved to Texas, and within this large collection came more material from Philip Menninger, which is separately cataloged but contains records overlapping in both topic and time period with this collection.