{"value"=>"<p>This series, spanning from 1971 to 1992, documents the work that Woodside undertook as the wife of William S. Woodside, CEO of the American Can Company (ACC), and her influence on the company's corporate culture and social relationships. Woodside played an integral role in relations with the company's Board of Directors as well as with affiliate organizations, senior executives' wives, company employees and their spouses, and customers worldwide. The Woodsides traveled extensively, and the materials in this series chronicle corporate trips to Venezuela, Mexico, Iran, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, Israel, India, London, and other locations, where she arranged, hosted, and attended women's programs and events for executives' wives. Correspondence, itineraries, photographs, schedules, newsletters, seating charts, invitations, guest lists, menus, and personal biographical notes about various executives and their wives thoroughly document Woodside's work planning and hosting large social events for the wives and executives of the ACC, the ACC's international subsidiaries, and the company's business partners. Some of Woodside's social events featured in the series include holiday and retirement parties for ACC executives and employees; dinner parties in honor of \"Sacred Circles: Two Thousand Years of North American Indian Art,\" an exhibition sponsored by the ACC; and dinners for visiting executives and their wives at the 21 Club.</p> <p>The series also examines Woodside's role in making ACC's corporate culture more equitable and family-friendly, and her advocacy of the Equal Rights Amendment and women's roles in the workplace. Materials include notes, correspondence, questionnaires, and meeting minutes from ACC's 1980 Task Force on Women and the Workplace, a study on working conditions and salaries of women working at the company. The series features letters Woodside wrote to the executives of ACC and the National Food Processors Association and others urging them to refrain from holding conferences and meetings in states that had not ratified the Equal Rights Amendment. Of note is a letter from Phyllis Schlafly to William S. Woodside condemning ACC and threatening a boycott of the company's products due to the company's refusal to hold meetings in states that had not ratified the ERA, as well as a letter from Senator Birch Bayh to William S. Woodside supporting the Woodsides' position on the amendment.</p> <p>Present in this series are materials related to the corporate management of American Can during William S. Woodside's tenure as president, CEO, and chairman, from 1977 to 1985. Under Woodside's leadership, American Can largely divested from the can business and acquired financial services and retail firms. During this pivotal time, Migs Woodside kept correspondence, schedules, itineraries, and ephemera from ACC shareholders' meetings, the formation of ACC's Asia Pacific Advisory Council, and international and national annual meetings of the European Can Association General Assembly and the National Food Processors Association. In 1987, ACC changed its name to Primerica Corporation.</p> <p>William S. Woodside also played an outsized role in focusing the philanthropic work of the American Can Foundation on issues of hunger, nutrition, and pre-college and workforce readiness. The series documents the partnership that the American Can Foundation created with Martin Luther King, Jr. High School at Lincoln Center during the 1980s through photographs, reports, and speeches from an ACC annual meeting conducted at the high school. Also included are programs, correspondence, committee meeting minutes, reports, advertisements, flyers, and brochures from the \"Sacred Circles\" and \"Lost and Found Traditions\" art exhibitions sponsored by the ACC.</p> <p>The series holds interviews, tributes, and correspondence related to William S. Woodside's work as the chairman and CEO of ACC. Migs Woodside preserved video and audio interviews from and tributes to William S. Woodside's upon and after his retirement from American Can.</p>"}