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Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 18, No. 16, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

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

• Hilltopics
• Campus Chips of the Cadet Corps
• Looking Backward
• Society – Personals
• Faculty Notes
• Alumni Flashes
• Music Notes
• At the Capitol - Movies
• Weddings - Engagements
• Spikes, Cleats & Sneakers

This issue contains articles:

• Military Schedule Ends With Field Day Excercises
• David Morton, Dr. Charles Welch to Address June Graduating Class
• Candidates for Degrees Listed by the Registrar
• Twilight Band Concert Will be Monday Night
• Open Shop is to be Held June 4-5
• ROTC Offered in Summer School
• Lecture Presented by Violet Eckhoff Here Recently
• Boys …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 18, No. 15, Wku Student Affairs

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

• Hilltopics
• Campus Chips of the Cadet Corps
• Looking Backward
• Society – Personals
• Faculty Notes
• Alumni Flashes
• Music Notes
• At the Capitol - Movies
• Weddings - Engagements
• Spikes, Cleats & Sneakers

This issue contains articles:

• Col. E.B. Crabil May be at Western Until June 5^th
• Western Chosen Key Center for Civilian Morale
• John Vincent’s Jack Suite Recorded
• Dr. J.P. Cornette to Deliver Annual Mothers Day Address This Morning
• Senior Dinner Dance, May 15
• Ogden-Robinson Contest, May 28
• Sesquicentennial Program Given
• Art of Janet Turner is Now …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 18, No. 14, Wku Student Affairs

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

• Hilltopics
• Campus Chips of the Cadet Corps
• Looking Backward
• Society – Personals
• Faculty Notes
• Alumni Flashes
• Music Notes
• At the Capitol - Movies
• Weddings - Engagements
• Spikes, Cleats & Sneakers
• Quotable Quotes
• Daily Doings
• This is Just A Reminder
• Campus Chips of the Cadet Corps

This issue contains articles:

• State Music Festival Open on Campus
• Colonel Gordon Rives Catts Relieves E.B. Crabill
• 32 High School to Participate in Varied Activities
• Spring Battalion Parades Started
• Chapel Not in Session Today
• All-Kentucky Chorus Sings Tomorrow
• Education Council Banquet …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 18, No. 13, Wku Student Affairs

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

• Hilltopics
• Campus Chips of the Cadet Corps
• Looking Backward
• Society – Personals
• Faculty Notes
• Alumni Flashes
• Music Notes
• At the Capitol - Movies
• Weddings - Engagements
• Spikes, Cleats & Sneakers
• Quotable Quotes
• Daily Doings
• Campus Chips of the Cadet Corps

This issue contains articles:

• 5,000 Fan Greet Toppers on Return
• 16 Winners of Kiwanis Medals Attend Western
• Quality in Quantity Depicted in Scholarship Group
• Music Festival Here Tomorrow
• Annual Spring Band Concert Will be Given in Van Meter, Sunday Afternoon
• Tournament Films to be Reshown at …

The Development Of Education In Bowling Green, Kentucky, Lula Dickey Vance

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

In recent years several articles have been written concerning education in Bowling Green, Kentucky, but the writer has been unable to discover an article that has treated the development of education from the time Bowling Green was established until now. It is the motive of this study to trace the development of education from the time Bowling Green was established until the present time.

Information for this thesis has been obtained from various sources, but the greater part of it has been secured through personal interviews, unpublished manuscripts, scrapbooks and histories.

Ua37/23 Whas Broadcast No. 24, Whas, Western Kentucky University, Earl Moore

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Script for weekly WKU broadcast on WHAS radio. This particular show is a play written using letters owned by Lenora Lindley of Livermore, Kentucky written by a freed slave in Liberia to her former owner in Ohio County, Kentucky.

Ua1a Students Weekly, News Publishing Company

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Weekly Bowling Green newspaper which catered to students at WKU, Bowling Green Business University and College High.

Ua1a Students Weekly, News Publishing Company

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Weekly Bowling Green newspaper which catered to students at WKU, Bowling Green Business University and College High.

Ua94/6/1 Scrapbook, Dorothy Topmiller

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Scrapbook created by Dorothy Topmiller from 1932 to 1934 regarding her senior year at Bowling Green High School and her freshman year at Western Kentucky University. Contains many autographs, obituaries, photographs, clippings, programs and mementos.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Viii, No. 19, Wku Student Affairs

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

• Alumni News
• Athletics
• Class News
• Club News
• Graduates’ Directory is Conducted by W.J. Craig
• Editorials
• Library Notes – Kentucky Library
• Lines & Spaces
• Personals
• Society
• The Long & the Short of It by Pete & Repeat
• The Stumbling Block by Charlene Nunn
• Training School Notes

This issue contains articles:

• Local Quartet Receive Ovation at Chapel Hour
• Concluding Issue of Year Published
• Date of Second Commencement Set for Aug. 25
• Sherry Sisters Established Record
• City Health Nurse Lectures to First Aid Class on Hill
• Farm Students Vie …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. V, No. 9, Wku Student Affairs

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

• Alumni News
• Athletics
• Chapel
• Class News
• Club News
• Editorials
• Kempusology Inside Out by Kelly Thompson
• Kollege Kampus Ravings by A. Shavings
• Personals
• Rambling ‘Round by Leon Cook
• Training School Notes

This issue contains articles:

• Rev. Edwin H. Hughes Gives Sermon Here
• Gives Series of Lectures Here – Edward Griggs
• Managing Editor Weds – William Lytle
• New Museum at Teachers College Open to Public
• W.J. Cameron is Heard by B.U. Class
• ROTC Unit National Champs, Awarded Trophies at Chapel Hour by Colonel Bassett; Team Also Winner of …

Ua12/2/2 1928 Talisman, Western Kentucky University

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1928 Talisman yearbook.

• Foreword
• Dedication – Arndt Stickles
• Talisman Staff
• Western Kentucky Teachers’ College
• The College
• Faculty
• Classes
• Normal / High School Department
• Organizations / Clubs
• Features
• Athletics
• WKTC Calendar 1927-1928
• Owsley, Roy. A Word of Thanks
• Advertisements

Ua1c11/80 Photograph Album, Unknown

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Photograph album housed in WKU Archives with no identifying remarks. Most images appear to be from the 1920s with some student portraits in the back dated 1926, 1927 and one 1927. Includes images of the Cedar House, Henry Cherry, picnics, children, dogs, sheep, farms, baptisms, tombstones, automobile and fashion.

Ua94/6/1 Mildred Mcgaw Autograph Book, Mildred Willett Mcgaw

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Autograph book owned by Mildred (Willett) McGaw with items dated between June 29 to July 17, 1926 includes a list of teachers and courses.

People mentioned in the book:

• Adkins, Valinda
• Barton, Emma
• Barttger, Beulah
• Beall, William
• Billings, ?
• Bondurant, Winnie aka Bill
• Braden, J.W.
• Brooks, Mattye
• Clark, Ethel
• Constance, Clyde
• Cox, Forda
• Craig, G.G.
• Day, Lottie
• Dean, Ruby
• Denton, Dollie
• Durrett, Ellis
• Els, Virginia
• Farris, Cecil
• Griffey, J.D.
• Hall, Margaret
• Harper, Gertrude
• Harper, Letha
• Hayes, Ruby
• Hillyard, Elisabeth
• Jackson, Larena
• King, Bertie
• Lancaster, L.Y.
• Lee, ?
• Lindow, C.W.
• Mann, Gertrude
• Masters, Stella
• McClure, Alma
• McClure, Mary
• Nichols, Lelia
• Patterson, …

Ua94/6/1 Mildred Mcgaw Scrapbook, Mildred Willett Mcgaw

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Portions of a scrapbook compiled by Mildred (Willett) McGaw during her time at WKU as a student. Includes images of campus buildings, an autograph of Henry Cherry, yell cards, cheer sheets and calling cards.

People mentioned in the book:

• Billings, ?
• Bishop, Eveline
• Bishop, Madeline
• Bondurant, Winifred
• Bullock, Elizabeth
• Cherry, Henry
• Clarke, Jimmie
• Clements, Virginia
• Craig, G.G.
• Davis, Edna
• Day, Lottie
• Du Call, Odessa
• Egbert, Ercell
• Els, Virginia
• Glass, Virginia
• Hall, James
• Hammond, Bill
• Henry, Mary
• Hill, Ruby
• Johnson, Elsie
• King, Bertie
• Lancaster, L.Y.
• Lindow, C.W.
• Loyd, Arthur
• Lynn, Bertha
• Markwell, Martha
• Miller, Leora
• Minter, Elizabeth
• Newby, Alma
• Nicholas, Lelia …

Ua3/1/2/1 Correspondence - Holeman, Wku President's Office - Cherry

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Correspondence of Sadie Holeman and Mattie McLean regarding work at Frisbie Hall, smallpox cases and the renting out of Holeman's cottage in Cherryton.

Transcription of Letter 1:

Will be in school this summer anyway.

Lebanon Jct., Ky.

March 3^rd 1926
Miss Mattie McLean
Dear Miss Mattie:

I have heard that Frisbie Hall might be in need of a matron, and am would like to put in an application for the place. I know you remember me and I would appreciate it very much if you would use your influence with Mr. Dr. Cherry in getting the place for me. …

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 …

Ua3/1/2/1 Correspondence, Henry Cherry, Lalla Boone

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Correspondence between Lalla Boone and Henry Cherry regarding her returning to work at WKU, enrollment, appropriations and the $100 she donated to start the College Heights Foundation.

Transcript of her letter:

2054 Webster St., Oakland, California, June 30, 1922

Dear Mr. Cherry,

I have feared you had forgotten me until to-day, when I received the invitation to commencement. I had received other invitations to that event; but your invitation gave me courage. Courage I needed. I have been wanting to tell you for a long while now that I want to come back. If you ever expected to get rid …

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. 2, No. 3, Western Kentucky University

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

Ua12/2/2 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 …

Ua3/1/2/1 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 …

Ua94/6/2/14 Domestic Science Notebook, Annie Reis

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Domestic Science notebook kept by student Annie Reis regarding crocheting and embroidery. Includes samples of work created by Reis and patterns for underwear and sleeves.

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 …

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

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Broadside about Flora Stallard, the first life certificate graduate.