The records are comprised of meeting minutes, written plans, and reports from the Boston Children’s Hospital Committee on Education and Recreation, also known as the Committee on Recreational Services, the Committee on Patient Education and Recreation, and the Recreation and Education Committee. The Minutes file begins with meeting minutes from the third meeting of this Committee and follows it through periodic meetings between February 1953 and September 1966. They cover the business of the committee and thoroughly document activities within the Recreational Service Department like staffing, student supervision, study of the Department by Margaret Linnehan, grant funding, their volunteer program, school program, and play program; among other topics.

The Plan file contains various correspondence, memoranda, and reports on the department including a memoranda of understanding from the Center for Field Studies at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education concerning the “Study of Educational and Recreational Facilities of the Children’s Medical Center,” a progress report from the survey, and meeting minutes from the Educational and Recreational Survey Committee. It contains a report by Dr. Snedeker on the “Organization and Administration of the Recreational and Educational Program at the Children’s Medical Center,” as well as sample work units for the School Program Work Unit. Finally, it contains papers of play, including “Play Pattersn of Hospitalized Children,” by Dr. Veronica B. Tisza.

Reports (#1.3) contains various monthly and annual from the Committee and Department of Education and Recreation as well as the Department of Occupational Therapy. It also contains several memoranda and proposals on the departments’ programs and the Education Program, a “Handbook for Recreation Volunteers,” and a job description for a Coordinator of Patient Education and Recreation.