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Edmonds, John Buell, 1945-2020 (Mss 742), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 742. Manuscript of Called, Justified, Glorified, and Gay: The Fictional Memoirs of Gospel Singer, Josephus Hezekiah Carson, by John Edmonds, a memoir based on the Bowling Green, Kentucky native’s life as a gay, African-American gospel singer. Includes a proposal for marketing the book, and several handwritten notes and lyrics. This material contains graphic sexual content.

Hannah & Nana: A Personal Memoir On Appalachian Intergenerational Trauma, Womanhood, & Family, Hannah Dunn

Honors Projects

I was deeply affected by the death of my beloved nana in 2018. After her death, my family asked me to be the storyteller for us. Thus, for my Honors Project at Bowling Green State University (BGSU), I decided to write a personal memoir on my family. This memoir explores how we fit into notions of womanhood and family in Appalachia, as well as studying the effects of intergenerational trauma on us. Qualitative research, in the form of the autoethnography, serves as the methodology for this project. In writing a creative memoir, I have transformed my personal to the academic.

Female Disparity And Political Participation In The Kentucky State Legislature; The Presence Of Female Legislative Candidates And Their Effect On Voter Turnout In The Kentucky Electorate, Trenton K. Patrick

MPA/MPP/MPFM Capstone Projects

Female disparity in the political process in the state of Kentucky follows the same distinct pattern of female disparity all across state legislatures in the United States, and in the federal legislative branch. Female representation and parity in the political process is vital to the success of governmental bodies due to the benefits that the female perspective offers to governmental processes. After extensive review of the existing literature, it is clear that there is a gap in the literature when it comes to understanding how the presence of a female candidate effects the total turnout rate, female turnout rate, and …

Kentucky Women In Agriculture (Mss 611), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Project 611. Minutes, financial records, conference handouts, and newsletters related to Kentucky Women in Agriculture, an awareness and support group for women farmers in the Commonwealth. Also includes interviews with members and digital images of members.

Lgbtq+ Nondiscrimination Laws In Kentucky., Christopher M Wales

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis explores the political and demographic obstacles facing the Fairness movement in Kentucky in regards to local employment protection ordinances for LGBTQ+ persons (Fairness Ordinances). Using case studies on recent Fairness debates in Berea and Bowling Green, this thesis explores the concern some Kentuckians have about LGBTQ+ nondiscrimination ordinances in their communities. From these cases studies, it can be concluded that many of the concerns espoused by opponents of Fairness are simple scare tactics with no evidence supporting their claims. This thesis then utilizes a logistical regression to uncover what demographic characteristics increase the odds of a municipality possessing …

The Priorities And Accomplishments Of Kentucky Legislators : Is There A Gender Difference?, Amanda Allen

College of Arts & Sciences Senior Honors Theses

This thesis uses Kentucky as a case study of gender differences in the policy priorities and perceptions of accomplishments of state legislators. The research question is, “are there gender differences in the legislative priorities and perceptions of accomplishments of Kentucky legislators?” The legislative priorities of the legislators seemed to be similar, along with their own classification of women’s issues. The perceptions of success demonstrated that male legislators were not necessarily more likely to attribute success to themselves, whereas women would attribute success to collaboration efforts. The research was completed through confidential interviews with Kentucky legislators and analysis of the 2015 …

New Matriarchs: Louisville, Kentucky (Fa 768), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and representative photographs for Folklife Archives Project 768. The collection details the lives of seven women from around the globe (India, Syria, Mexico, Uganda, Russia, Argentina, and Somalia),all recent immigrants to Louisville, Kentucky.

Gender And Gravestone Epitaphs: A Warren County Cemetery, Mariah S. Callis Goodwin

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

The socio-cultural factors that influence us in life are present in what is left behind. My thesis project investigates evidence of socio-cultural status on gravestones. I systematically recorded data from all the grave markers at the Hays Cemetery in Warren County, Kentucky. Data collected and considered included epitaphs, art forms, and monument marker style. Each stone was also photographed as I recorded the data. My starting hypothesis was that the markers would, to a degree, convey information about the gender and possibly the socio-economic status of the individuals that the stones represent. The paper will describe to what degree and …

A Kentucky Dressmaker, Mrs. A.H. (Carrie) Taylor: An Examination Of Her Role In Fashion At The Turn Of The Century, Janice Centers

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

One dressmaker, Mrs. A. H. Taylor of Bowling Green, Kentucky, was studied in order to draw attention to the role of the dressmaker in American fashion. A biography of Mrs. A. H. Taylor and the business history were compiled; available designs were analyzed in relation to current fashion; and an investigation of the business organization was made. It was found that the dressmaking establishment played an important role in the lives of women of that time period. Fashionable custom fit clothing was made available to local residents and to mail-order customers. The establishment was one of the few businesses which …

Ua98/1 Green & Gold, Vol. Vii, No. 3, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Archives Records

Magazine created by and about the students of Potter College. The Green & Gold contains articles, short stories, poetry and news regarding events of the college, students and alumni.

• Toast to Potter
• Redmond, Ethel. A Negro Sermon
• McCurdy, B.O. Never Seem to Be What You Are Not
• Eastland, May. A New “Brer Rabbit & Brer Possum” Story
• The Universal Sovereign
• Postlewaite, Delphia. Pat’s Joke
• Description of the Azores
• Sanders, Norah. Ghosts
• Barr, Corrine. Interpretation of Prometheus Unbound
• Mitchell, Katherine. The Misfortunes of Rastus
• Earth’s Pain
• The Passing of Pleasant Potter College
• Wilford, John. The Passing of Pleasant J. Potter College …

Ua98/1 Green & Gold, Vol. Vii, No. 2, Potter College For Young Ladies

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Magazine created by and about the students of Potter College. The Green & Gold contains articles, short stories, poetry and news regarding events of the college, students and alumni.

• Baker, Louise. Dear Old Potter ‘Way Up on the Hill
• Givens, Kathryn. Won’t You? Will You? You Are
• Twashtri – A Tale of India
• Bartered Birthrights
• Mitchell, Katherine. Mumps! Mumps! Mumps!
• Rosser, Elma. Fate’s Sister
• Mitchell, Katherine. Luigi Cornaro
• Rats
• A Day in January
• Editorial
• Sigma Iota Chi
• Beta Sigma Omicron
• Eta Upsilon Gamma
• Phi Mu Gamma
• Lewis, Lena. Ossolian Society
• Sleadd, Gertrude. Hypatian Society
• Rosser, Elma. Entertainment
• Keith, Katherine. YWCA …

Ua98/1 Green & Gold, Vol. Vii, No. 1, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Archives Records

Magazine created by and about the students of Potter College. The Green & Gold contains articles, short stories, poetry and news regarding events of the college, students and alumni.

• Editorial
• The Girl in Brown
• Keith, Katherine. The Asheville Conference – YWCA
• Falter, Emma. Report of the Delegate to State Convention of YWCA
• YWCA Notes
• The Old Girls Entertain the New
• New Girls Entertain the Old
• Reception for Miss Sinclair
• Givens, Kathryn. Just Like a Girl
• The Girl Who Laughs
• The Mammoth Cave Trip
• Jordan, Katherine. The Boat Trip
• A Petition
• To Potter College
• Thanksgiving Day
• Ossolian Society
• Hypatian Society
• Sigma …

Ua98/1 Green & Gold, Vol. Vi, No. 3, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Archives Records

Magazine created by and about the students of Potter College. The Green & Gold contains articles, short stories, poetry and news regarding events of the college, students and alumni.

• Editorial
• Camak, Gerster. The State at Present
• Burnside, Blanche. Interpretation of Ancient Mariner
• Falter, Elizabeth. A Nebraska Wooing
• Booth, Blanche. When Greek Meets Greek
• Buchanan, Pauline. Why Uncle Josh Unjined
• What I Would Do If I Were Left Upon My Own Resources – Class of 1911 (PC)
• The Snow Image – Class of 1912 (PC)
• Courage
• YWCA Notes
• Mitchell, Katherine. The Great Stone Face
• Commencement Calendar
• Programmes
• Senior Class Day Program …

Ua98/1 Green & Gold, Vol. Vi, No. 2, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Archives Records

Magazine created by and about the students of Potter College. The Green & Gold contains articles, short stories, poetry and news regarding events of the college, students and alumni.

• Editorial
• Norse Mythology
• The Origin of the Persian Emblems
• To You
• Amos, Lutie. Character Study in Mother Goose
• Mother Goose
• Keith, Katherine. A Narrow Escape
• A Puzzle Valentine
• Postlewaite, Delphia. The Shattering of an Ideal
• Thanksgiving
• The Bazaar
• Hypatian Society
• YWCA Notes
• Beta Sigma Omicron
• Sigma Iota Chi
• Delta Pi Kappa
• General Recital
• In Memoriam – Martha Poynter
• Personals
• Baby Party
• Juniors Entertain – Class of 1909 (PC)
• Bell, Kathleen. All’s …

Ua98/1 Green & Gold, Vol. Vi, No. 1, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Archives Records

Magazine created by and about the students of Potter College. The Green & Gold contains articles, short stories, poetry and news regarding events of the college, students and alumni.

• Editorial
• Some Phases of Modern Education
• McCurdy, Bess. A Flight of Fancy
• Langley, Ramona. Harry’s Tombstone
• Simms, Edna. Cynewulf’s Elene
• Ikard, Don. The Cave Trip – Mammoth Cave
• Banning, Esther. In School Days
• Gardner, Jessie. Untitled Poem
• Falter, Emma. A Geographical Description of Hell, As Found in Paradise Lost
• Anderson, Gertrude. The World’s Desert
• Gardner, Jessie. The Close of School
• Ossolian Society
• Hypatian Society
• Delta Pi Kappa
• Enochs, Laura. Beta Sigma …

Ua98/1 Green & Gold, Vol. V. No. 3, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Archives Records

Magazine created by and about the students of Potter College. The Green & Gold contains articles, short stories, poetry and news regarding events of the college, students and alumni.

• Pillsbury, Agatha. Art & Life
• Smith, Mary. Mandy’s Wedding
• Stevens, India. Home Sweet Home
• Buchanan, Pauline. The Mammoth Cave Trip
• YWCA Notes
• Ossolian Society
• Hypatian Society
• Delta Pi Kappa
• Mu Phi Psi
• Beta Sigma Omicron
• Serenades
• Irregular Entertainment
• Lost River
• Senior Banquet – Class of 1907 (PC)
• Senior Day
• Flag Rush – From the Junior Point of View
• Jokes
• Mrs. Amy Henschel’s Home-Coming
• Personals
• Exchanges
• Teachers’ Recital
• Thanksgiving Program
• Recital Potter …

Ua98/1 Green & Gold, Vol. V, No. 2, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Archives Records

Magazine created by and about the students of Potter College. The Green & Gold contains articles, short stories, poetry and news regarding events of the college, students and alumni.

• McKinney, Luna. The Nineteenth Century Modification of the Epic: The Ring & the Book
• Compensation
• Stevens, India. A Pleasant Prescription
• Gay Motes that People the Sunbeams
• Epler, Clara. A Realized Ideal
• Lewis, Lena. January Nineteenth
• Bryan, Helen. A Year in the Philippines
• Patterson, Maggie. Aunt Hannah’s Experience
• Mu Phi Psi
• Sigma Theta Phi
• Beta Sigma Omicron
• Delta Pi Kappa
• New Year Reception
• Presbyterian Reception
• YWCA Notes
• In Memoriam – Alice Moore …

Ua98/1 Green & Gold, Vol. V, No. 1, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Archives Records

Magazine created by and about the students of Potter College. The Green & Gold contains articles, short stories, poetry and news regarding events of the college, students and alumni.

• Teddy Bears
• Byrd, Nettie. Old Foes with New Faces
• Galceran, Marie. Physics
• Gardner, Jessie. Unfinished Business
• Gorin, Rebecca. The Song of a Bard
• Edrington, May. A Boarding School Tragedy
• Senior Class – Class of 1907 (PC)
• Junior Class – Class of 1908 (PC)
• Sophomore Class – Class of 1909 (PC)
• Freshman Class – Class of 1910 (PC)
• Hypatian Society
• Ossolian Society
• YWCA Notes
• Methodist Reception
• New Girls’ Reception to the Old …

Ua98/1 Green & Gold, Vol. Iv, No. 3, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Archives Records

Magazine created by and about the students of Potter College. The Green & Gold contains articles, short stories, poetry and news regarding events of the college, students and alumni.

• Gorin, Rebecca. The Forts of Bowling Green
• Metamorphosis
• Gray, Nell. The Club
• Coombs, Mary. Charity
• Cobb, Pearl. The Garden
• Miller, Lula. The Widow’s Home Coming
• Porter, Jessie. The Widow Shows Her Treasures
• Dorsey, Josey. The Widow’s Grief
• Hinton, Kate. The Love Making of the Widow’s Maid & Sir Roger’s Man
• Washburn, Mary. The Delayed Letter
• Redmond, Ethel. The Effect of Sir Roger’s Death on the Widow
• Voorhees, Pansy. The Widow’s Funeral …

Ua98/1 Green & Gold, Vol. Iv, No. 2, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Archives Records

Magazine created by and about the students of Potter College. The Green & Gold contains articles, short stories, poetry and news regarding events of the college, students and alumni.

• The Evolution of Personality
• Hurt, Lillian. The Evolution of Personality in Nineteenth Century Poetry
• Alcestis – Dramatic Monologue Based on Euripides’ Play
• Coombs, Belle. Sir Roger Falls in Love
• Hobson, Margaret. The Dinner at the Inn
• Washburn, Mary. Sir David Dundrum & the Widow
• Sanders, Nora. The Poodle
• Crandell, Pearl. After the Dinner at the Inn
• Washburn, Mary. Sir David Dundrum Becomes Infatuated with the Widow
• Drake, Elizabeth. The Dinner at …

Ua98/1 Green & Gold, Vol. Iv, No. 1, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Archives Records

Magazine created by and about the students of Potter College. The Green & Gold contains articles, short stories, poetry and news regarding events of the college, students and alumni.

• Kirby, Clara. The Course of Love
• Hill, Louise. Comparison of Prometheus Unbound (Shelley) & Manfred (Byron)
• Gilbert, Sarah. With Margaret & Jackie
• How the Cow Jumped Over the Moon
• Signs of Fine Frenzy
• Liquid Air – Chautauqua Lecture
• Radium – Chautauqua Lecture
• Mr. Pearson’s Lecture – Chautauqua Lecture
• Richard Hobson – Chautauqua Lecture
• Flag Rush
• Old Girls’ Reception to the New
• Reception by the New Girls
• Junior Feast – Class of …

Ua98/1 Green & Gold, Vol. Iii, No. 2, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Archives Records

Magazine created by and about the students of Potter College. The Green & Gold contains articles, short stories, poetry and news regarding events of the college, students and alumni.

• Editorial
• Santo Domingo & the United States
• Kirby, Clara. A Dead Letter
• Willis, Effie. Milton’s Minor Poems
• Baker, Louise. Uncle Reuben’s Baptism
• Myers, Willie. Was Godfrey Cass a Victim of Circumstances?
• Gorin, Rebecca. The Expression of the Emotions in Cats
• Faculty & Students’ Reception
• Mr. Walter Spry’s Recital
• The YWCA Reception
• Reception for Seniors & Sophomores
• YWCA Notes
• Exchange

Ua98/1 Green & Gold, Vol. Iii, No. 1, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Archives Records

Magazine created by and about the students of Potter College. The Green & Gold contains articles, short stories, poetry and news regarding events of the college, students and alumni.

• Editorial
• Obenchain, Margery. Milton’s Angels
• Potter, Reed. The Song of Roland
• Elmore, Cynthinia. Robin Hood
• Brownell, Estelle. Sir Roger de Coverley
• Deane, Everett. A Dream in the Tenses
• A Study of Three Plays of Shakespeare – Richard III, Richard II & King John
• To Psychology
• Senior Notes – Class of 1905 (PC)
• Junior Notes – Class of 1906 (PC)
• Sophomore Notes – Class of 1907 (PC)
• Freshman Notes – Class of …

Ua98/1 Green & Gold, Vol. Ii, No. 3, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Archives Records

Magazine created by and about the students of Potter College. The Green & Gold contains articles, short stories, poetry and news regarding events of the college, students and alumni.

• The Degeneracy of the Modern Novel
• A Plea for the New Novel
• The Home Makers
• Faculty of Potter College
• Aunt Charlotte
• Our Next Presidential Campaign
• Memories
• Societies
• Dead Sea Fruit
• Why I Disliked the Last Book I Read
• The Last Book I Read
• Exchange
• Mrs. Smith’s Forget-Me-Not Party
• The Senior Reception – Class of 1904 (PC)
• Alumnae Notes
• College Notes

Ua98/1 Green & Gold, Vol. Ii, No. 2, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Archives Records

Magazine created by and about the students of Potter College. The Green & Gold contains articles, short stories, poetry and news regarding events of the college, students and alumni.

• Cave Mill & Its Associations
• A Psalm of Potter’s Girl’s Life
• Massey’s Springs
• In the Evening
• Twilight in the Country
• Incidents of My Life
• Magee, Louis. A Spring Lament
• Mary’s Change of Opinion
• Adventures of an Apple
• Garlic
• Burr, Lehigh. Applied Mathematics
• Exchange
• Starr, A.E. The Grind
• YWCA Notes
• Athletics
• College Notes

Ua98/1 Green & Gold, Vol. Ii, No. 1, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Archives Records

Magazine created by and about the students of Potter College. The Green & Gold contains articles, short stories, poetry and news regarding events of the college, students and alumni.

• Some Scenes in Kentucky
• College Yells
• Less – Leslie Jenkins
• Kuntz, Eugene. The Voiceless Melody
• Senior Class – Class of 1904 (PC)
• Place & Function of a College Magazine
• The Potter Mouse
• Senior Notes – Class of 1904 (PC)
• Junior Class – Class of 1905 (PC)
• Sophomore Class – Class of 1906 (PC)
• Freshmen – Class of 1907 (PC)
• Ossolian Society
• Hypatian Society
• Exchange
• Alumnae Notes
• YWCA Notes
• Grinds
• College Notes …

Ua98/1 Green & Gold, Vol. 1, No. 3, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Archives Records

Magazine created by and about the students of Potter College. The Green & Gold contains articles, short stories, poetry and news regarding events of the college, students and alumni.

• Drake, Sallie. History of Bowling Green Part III, 1870-1903
• Payne, Llewellyn. History of Bowling Green
• Payne, Llewellyn. Pleasant J. Potter
• Kuntz, Eugene. I Dreamed of You
• Chronicles of the Class of 1903
• Senior Prophecies – Class of 1903 (PC)
• Class Poem
• Editorial
• YWCA
• Societies
• Exchanges
• College Notes

Ua98/1 Green & Gold, Vol. 1, No. 2, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Archives Records

Magazine created by and about the students of Potter College. The Green & Gold contains articles, short stories, poetry and news regarding events of the college, students and alumni.

• Claypool, Cary & Celeste Cuthbertson. History of Bowling Green, Part II 1860-1870
• Starr, Aljean. Ode to April
• McNeal, Ethel. Rev. Benjamin Francis Cabell
• Obenchain, Jeanette. Ellen Douglas Cabell
• Warwick, Margaret. Mother Mine
• Editorials
• Exchanges
• College Notes
• Mrs. Benjamin Cabell’s Reception for Mrs. M.E. Shelburne
• Alumnae Notes

Ua98/1 Green & Gold, Vol. 1, No. 1, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Archives Records

Magazine created by and about the students of Potter College. The Green & Gold contains articles, short stories, poetry and news regarding events of the college, students and alumni.

• Greeting
• Crofton, Ruby. History of Bowling Green, Part I
• Warwick, Margaret. Little Pink Dress
• Lawrence, Mary. A Trip to Niagara
• Wise, Florence. Thanksgiving
• Obenchain, Margery. An Autumn Ramble
• Warwick, Margaret. A Medley in Thoughts
• Warwick, Margaret. A Stroll Underground – Caves
• Dotter, Minnie. A Day in San Francisco
• Gorin, Rebecca. The Great Stone Face
• College Notes
• Williams, Mabelle. The Recital
• Wise, Florence. Thanksgiving at Potter
• Piner, Rena. Athletics
• Senior Notes – …