This association was an outgrowth of reading sessions and clinics held at the Northwest Division Music Educators Conferences. The organizational meetings were held in Bellingham, Washington, March 18 and 19, 1953. In April 1955 the draft of the constitution was given to a "constitutional committee" of the regional Music Educators National Conference for study and revision. The document was formally accepted at a meeting of choral directors on April 16, and the Northwest Association of College Choral Directors became an associated organization attached to the Music Educators National Association. Glen Lockery of the University of Idaho was elected as first president of the new organization.

Items in this series include drafts of the constitution, minutes of meetings held in 1953, 1956, 1957, and 1958, a history of the NACCD by Glen Lockery, and correspondence for the years 1949-1959. Several other items are "An evaluation of various seating plans used in choral singing," by Arthur Ray Lamson (1958); "Dissertations and theses of interest to choral directors" compiled by George E. Bower (1959); and "Twelfth song list--contemporary American and British composers" published by the American Academy of Teachers of Singing in 1959.