Scope and Contents The planning subseries contains records for how Designing Women organized, fundraised, and executed Color It Orange from its inception in 1974. It includes meeting minutes; information on jurors; instructions for volunteers; correspondence within Designing Women and with school liaisons, vendors, and other organizers; publication proofs; and invitations to CIO previews and the Tiffany reception. For more planning documents, see subseries Nancy Lawrence and Patty Truman in the Designing Women...

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This series contains materials related to the actual event day, and includes invitations to participate; promotional materials; instructions for submitting and retrieving art; rules pamphlets; participant rosters; letters from the jurors; lists of scholarship winners; thank you notes from students; a scrapbook of CIO 1975; and awards. It also features news clippings from local papers and magazines that review the event and feature members of Designing Women.

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This subseries contains financial information created and recorded by Designing Women for Color It Orange. This includes correspondence about donations; files of Designing Women’s treasurer; budget information; account transaction history; and receipts and invoices. For more information on fundraising for CIO and Laguna College of Art + Design more generally, see the Designing Women Subseries 1: Administration.