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Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 1, No. 3, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Regular features include:

• Alumni News
• Athletics
• Campus Opinion
• Editorials
• Exchanges
• Personals
• Society
• Student Council
• Under the Church Spires

This issue contains articles:

• Rural Life Conference on College Heights is a Tremendous Success
• Round Table Addressed by Educators
• Marshall Co. Surveyed by T.C. Students
• Debating Teams are Working for Most Extensiv Program Ever Attempted on the Hill
• Legionaires Assemble; Banquet
• Dean Gamble Speaks at Cincinnati
• Sacred Music Winds Up the Conference
• Faculty Springs Surpise
• W.M. Pearce Makes Trip
• School Songs Composed by Students
• Homer Beliles is Candidate Butler Co.
• M.A. …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 1, No. 2, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Articles in this issue:

• The Greatest Opening in the History of the School Starts Semester
• Sophomores Have Live Society
• Students of Teachers College Aid in the Rescue of Floyd Collins
• Professor Alonzo Burton Presents Facts
• Rural Life Conference Will Open College Heights February 20
• Tanner, J.F. Rifle Team Schedules Colleges
• Latin Club Organized Thursday
• Henry Price, Finley C. Grise Improved
• Daily Chapel Outstanding Event
• New Honor Accorded Western – Vocational Education
• Program Rural Life Conference
• Legislature Removes East / West Boundary
• Alumni News
• ROTC Unit is Increased New Semester …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 1, No. 1, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Regular features include:

• Alumni News
• Athletics
• Campus Opinion
• Editorials
• Exchanges
• Personals
• Society
• Student Council
• Under the Church Spires

This issue contains articles:

• The College Heights Herald Makes Debut
• Helm, Margie. The College Library Has Large Growth
• Hart County Reporter is on the Job
• Rural Life Conference Opens on College Heights Friday February 20
• Study English Work in High Schools of Ky.
• Commencement Spearks Furnished from Faculty
• Newspaper is to be Issued by Students
• College Postoffice Addition to Hill Tea-Room Girls Work on Project Developed by the Home Economics Students …

Ua12/2/1 Normal Heights, Vol. 4, No. 6, Western Kentucky University

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Newsletter and course catalog promoting Western Kentucky University.

Ua12/2/1 Normal Heights, Vol. 3, No. 6, Western Kentucky University

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Newsletter and course catalog, this issue promotes the Training School.

Ua12/2/1 Normal Heights, Vol. 3, No. 5, Western Kentucky University

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Newsletter and course catalog, this issue promotes teacher education.

Ua12/2/1 Normal Heights, Vol. 3, No. 4, Western Kentucky University

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Newsletter and course catalog published bi-monthly. This issue focuses on agriculture and home economics.

Ua12/2/1 Normal Heights, Vol. 3, No. 2, Western Kentucky University

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Newsletter and course catalog published bi-monthly. This issue focuses on the Summer School and veterans of World War I.

Ua12/2/1 Normal Heights, Vol. 3, No. 1, Western Kentucky University

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Newsletter and course catalog promoting Western Kentucky University. This issue focuses on rural education.

Ua12/2/1 Normal Heights, Vol. 2, No. 6, Western Kentucky University

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Newsletter and course catalog promoting Western Kentucky University. This issue focuses on the Students' Army Training Corps and students who served in World War I. There is also a biographical sketch of Henry Cherry.

Ua12/2/1 Normal Heights, Vol. 2, No. 4, Western Kentucky University

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Newsletter and course catalog promoting Western Kentucky University. This issue focuses on rural education and military training.

Ua12/2/1 Normal Heights, Vol. 2, No. 3, Western Kentucky University

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Newsletter and course catalog promoting Western Kentucky University. This issue focuses on summer school.

Ua12/2/1 Normal Heights, Vol. 2, No. 2, Western Kentucky University

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Newsletter and course catalog promoting Western Kentucky University. This issue focuses on the Rural Life & Rural School Conference.

Ua45/1/3 Military Training, Wku Registrar

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Broadside announcing military training to begin at WKU in the fall of 1918.

Ua3/1/3 Scrapbook - General Subjects 1916-1918, Wku President's Office - Cherry

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Scrapbook created in the president's office of clippings related to World War I, Henry Cherry's bid for governor and United States politics during the war. Page number correspond to original scrapbook and may not match pdf file.

• . . . Tells How He'd March to Mexico, p. 17
• A Perfect Picture of German Work, p. 34
• A Veritable Flashlight, p. 19
• Abercrombie, John. Speech, Congressional Record, June 2, 1916, p. 12
• Addresses Made at Flag Raising, 1917 p.9
• All Kentucky is in Food Crusade, p. 13
• America at War in Self Defense, Declares Lane, p. 11
• America Now at Point …

Ua12/2/1 Normal Heights, Vol. 1, No. 6, Western Kentucky University

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Newsletter and course catalog this issue promotes Patriotic Week.

Ua12/2/1 Normal Heights, Vol. 1, No. 5, Western Kentucky University

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Newsletter and course catalog promoting Western Kentucky University. This issue focuses on the patriotic conference and World War I.

Ua12/2/2 Vista, Western Kentucky University

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1915 Vista yearbook.

• Greeting
• Dedication – Henry Cherry
• The Fort
• C.S. Brown – Dormitory Manager
• Faculty & Board of Regents
• Dreams
• Class of 1915
• Senior Editorial
• Midsummer Nights Dream – Senior Play
• Privileged? Hardly
• Alice in Seniorland
• Class Poem
• Annual Debate of the Senior Girls
• Know Em?
• Owed to Senior Note Books
• Senior Class Song – We’re a Jolly Band of Seniors
• Concerning a Senior and Geometry I
• Ex Parte
• Class Song
• Class Will
• Juniors – Class of 1916
• Sophomores – Class of 1917
• Freshmen – Class of 1918
• Class Editorials, Poems, Prophecies, Songs
• White Butterfly
• Effects of the Son …

Ua3/1/3 Political Scrapbook, Wku President's Office - Cherry

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Scrapbook of political clippings created by the WKU president's office. Page numbers refer to original scrapbook, not pdf.

• A Trumpet Call - 33
• A.O. Stanley Announces for Governorship - 32
• Address, J. Mace. Solving Country Life Problems in Massachusetts, nd - 28
• An Open Letter Denhardt to Hines A Peppery Document - 42
• An Opportunity for the Churches - 6
• Apples for Commercial Purposes - 30
• Are We Forgetting the Farewell Admonitions of the Republic's Founder? - 43
• Asks Stanley to Name Men He Denounces - 51
• Baiting the Railroads - 30
• Beckham Chokes and Swallows - 52
• Beckham Espouses …

Ua3/1/2/1 Letter From Nettie Depp To Henry Cherry, Nettie Depp

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Letter from Nettie Depp to Henry Cherry written April 13, 1914 when Depp was Superintendent of Barren County Schools. She was the first woman elected to any office in Barren County, seven years before woman's suffrage in the United States. She was also the first WKU alum to be elected superintendent of schools. Transcription of letter:

[Note at top] Look on alumni list and change address.

Pres. H.H. Cherry, Bowling Green, Ky.

My dear Mr. Cherry;

Your letter sent to Scottsville has reached me. My prospects for the following year are possibly not as flattering as you would like, but …

Ua3/1/2/1 Letter Nettie Depp To Henry Cherry, Nettie Depp

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Letter written to Henry Cherry by Nettie Depp from Scottsville, Kentucky, Dec. 11, 1910. Transcript:

Pres. H.H. Cherry, Bowling Green, Ky.

My dear Mr. Cherry;

As a matter of course I am egotistical enough to think that you would like to hear from me occasionally.

School here is progressing nicely though the school board is financially embarressed [sic] at present. You know they began the school with only a twenty cent tax and now they begin to realize that they will have to do something in order to meet the growing demands of the school.

They have called a meeting …

Ua3/1/2/1 Letter Nettie Depp To Henry Cherry, Nettie Depp

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Letter from Nettie Depp to Henry Cherry from Glasgow, Kentucky, August 20, 1910. Transcript of letter:

Pres. H.H. Cherry, Bowling Green, Ky.

My dear Mr. Cherry,

I have been wating [sic] to know for certain just what I was to do. I go to Scottsville next week. I have charge of the 7th and 8th grades and two higher classes at $65.00 per month. This is not the work I wanted to do nor is it the price I wanted to work for, still I think it the best I can do this year and I shall go and do …

Ua3/1/2/1 Letter Nettie Depp To Henry Cherry, Nettie Depp

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Letter from Nettie Depp to Henry Cherry dated July 28, 1910 from Glasgow, Ky. Transcript of letter:

Pres. H.H. Cherry, Bowling Green, Ky.

My dear sir:

Your letter to hand and I have made the application for the school. I sincerely thank you for all you have done for me and only hope that I may be able in some way to repay you.

I have not been at home long enough to visit any schools but hope to do so soon.

Yours for success

Nettie B. Depp

Ua3/1/2/1 Correspondence - Eastern Kentucky University, Wku President's Office

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Documents housed in Box 1 Folder 7 of President Henry Cherry’s Correspondence, General File regarding the relationship between WKU and Eastern Kentucky University. This file is comprised entirely of letters, the majority from EKU’s president Ruric Roark.

• Roark, Ruric N. to Henry Cherry 1/25/1907 – congratulations on creation of WKU, questions about curriculum and faculty
• Roark, Ruric N. to Henry Cherry 6/3/1907 – Kentucky Education Association resolution re: diplomas
• Roark, Ruric N. to Henry Cherry 6/7/1907 – appropriations for EKU
• Roark, Ruric N. to Henry Cherry 6/24/1907 – curriculum and faculty
• Roark, Ruric N. to Henry Cherry 7/25/1907 – diplomas …

Ua1b3/7 Oratorical League Committee, Wku Faculty

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Correspondence regarding proposed constitution of the Central Oratorical League consisting of Indiana State University, Eastern Kentucky University and Ohio University. William Craig was appointed a committee of one to study the viability of WKU's participation. Includes program for oratorical contest held May 27, 1910 in Van Meter Hall.

Ua45/1/1 First Life Certificate Graduate, Wku Registrar

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Broadside about Flora Stallard, the first life certificate graduate.