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First Church Of Christ, Scientist - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3654), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2022

First Church Of Christ, Scientist - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3654), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3654. “Historical Record of First Church of Christ, Scientist,” a narrative by Kate (Topmiller) Hunt outlining the formation and growth of a Christian Science Society in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and the chartering of the First Church of Christ, Scientist in 1925. Includes a list of the early members and a photograph of the church building at 11th and Center Streets in Bowling Green.


Christian Science Society - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3640), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2022

Christian Science Society - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3640), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3640. Legal papers, notes and historical data relating to the Christian Science Society, Bowling Green, Kentucky, particularly its acquisition of the church at 11th and Center Streets in Bowling Green, formerly the home of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and the Second Baptist Church. Includes articles of incorporation and bylaws for the First Church of Christ, Scientist in Bowling Green (1967) and draft articles of incorporation for the Society (1994).


Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Mss 636), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2018

Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Mss 636), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 636. Correspondence and papers of Margie Helm, Auburn, Kentucky native and longtime Western Kentucky University head librarian, relating principally to her work for the Presbyterian Church. Also includes materials documenting her service on the Inter-Racial Commission of Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Presbyterian Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 623), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2017

Presbyterian Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 623), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 623. Minutes, letters, resolutions, subscriptions and other documents relating to the early history of the Presbyterian Church in Bowling Green, Kentucky, including doctrinal schisms in 1837 and 1868 and the reunification of its congregation.


Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 62), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2016

Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 62), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 62. Diary of Shaker eldress Nancy E. Moore, and a journal, probably kept by Shaker eldress Lucy Shannon. The diary and journal record life in the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky, with Moore’s diary focused on the Civil War years 1863-1864.


Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 63), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2016

Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 63), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 63. Business records, deeds, notes, receipts, surveys, agreements, bill of complaint, etc., 1800-85; account books, 1843-89; journals, 1865-1916; agreement book of probationary members, 1858-1904; and manuscript hymnals, 1844-86 (6) of the Shaker Society of South Union, Kentucky. Journals include censuses of members. Click on "Additional Files" below for a list of deaths at South Union "from the beginning to the present date January 1st, 1879," with addenda to 1892; a name index to Shaker Record C; and a name index of probationary members signing Articles of Agreement.


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald - Magazine, Wku Student Affairs Apr 1986

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald - Magazine, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

Special magazine edition of the College Heights Herald:

  • Meehan, Mary. Adjust: The Nearly 390 Refugees from Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam Struggle to Adjust to New Life in Bowling Green
  • Sullivan, Sheila. State Theater Gets Religion
  • Marty Deputy is Mom to 390 Refugees


Ua68/13/4 Bowling Green, Vol. 5, No. 1, Kelly Thompson Chapter, Public Relations Student Society Oct 1984

Ua68/13/4 Bowling Green, Vol. 5, No. 1, Kelly Thompson Chapter, Public Relations Student Society

Student Organizations

Magazine produced by senior seminar class in public relations with the Kelly Thompson Chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America and students in the WKU Department of Journalism.

Regular features include:

  • Reflections
  • Business
  • Art
  • Community Service
  • Reminiscing
  • Curiosities
  • Entertainment

This issue includes articles:

  • Roberts, Candace & Ann Hochgesang. WKU Groups Support Community
  • McMurtry, Pam. Care Centers Teach Social Skills, ABC's
  • Walton, Dreama. A Life Some Never Left - Mennonites