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Ua12/2/1 Housing Guide, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Wysong, Morgan. Greek Hand-Me-Down Home – Cabell Castle, Phi Gamma Delta
• Norvell, Abbey. 3 Ways to Resolve Roommate Conflicts
• Wysong, Morgan. Décor Dupes
• Crawford, Ashlyn. House Hunting on the Hill
• Harper, Beckah. DIY Natural Cleaners
• Harper, Beckah. Becoming a Plant Parent
• Hughes, Gabe. What’s In Your Fridge?
• Brandt, Jess. What to Look for In a Lease
• Brandt, Jess. What Dorm Personality Are You? – McLean Hall, Hilltopper Hall, Minton Hall, Meredith Hall, Pearce-Ford Tower

Cassidy, Paul S., 1908-1998 (Sc 3497), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3497. Letters written by Paul S. Cassidy--likely in the 1950s--soliciting for the purchase of small rental houses for a company called "The Rental Pool" in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Ua6/2/4 Lost River Cave & Valley - Property, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Unprocessed property files created by and about Lost River Cave.

Wood, George Twyman, 1796-1876 (Mss 630), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 630. Correspondence and land records related to George T. Wood’s management of property in Hart County, Kentucky, on behalf of the City of Philadelphia, which resulted from the settlement of Stephen Girard’s estate. At the time of his death Girard was one of the wealthiest men in America.

Oates Realty Company - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2776), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2776. Organizational meeting minutes, directors’ minutes, and by-laws of the Cooperative Sales Company, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes typescripts of stock certificates issued to the incorporators, Alva Williams, M. B. Williams, and L. E. Ringo.

Ua3/9/3 President's Office-Ransdell Reading File, Wku Archives, Virginia Brothers, Aaron Shuford

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Reading file of outgoing correspondence regarding the administration of WKU, fund raising, thank yous and letters of condolence.

Ua3/9/2 Market Demand Study & Statement Of Estimated Annual Operating Results, Wku President's Office - Ransdell

WKU Archives Records

Marketing report created by PKF Consulting firm regarding the tax increment financing district of Bowling Green.

Ua96/2 Southern Normal School Board Of Directors, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about the Southern Normal School Board of Directors. Series includes certificates of incorporation, meeting minutes, financial records, construction records, contracts, correspondence and scrapbooks.

Ua37/30/2 Wku Research Notecards - L Topics, Lowell Harrison

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Notecards created by Lowell Harrison while researching his book Western Kentucky University. The cards transcribed below are for 151 topics beginning with L ranging from L&M Bookstore to Lyne, John.

Ua37/30/2 Wku Research Notecards - Q-R Topics, Lowell Harrison

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Notecards created by Lowell Harrison while researching his book Western Kentucky University. The cards transcribed below are for 118 topics beginning with Q & R ranging from Qualifications: Teachers to Russian Taught.

Ua12/2/75 Sigma Phi Epsilon Letter, Southern Kentucky Alumni Association

Student Organizations

Letter from Jim Wallace, president of the Southern Kentucky Alumni Association to Sigma Phi Epsilon alumni regarding purchase of a house and some events.

An Application Of The Income Elasticity Concept To The Demand For Housing, Loyce Bagwell

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Many studies approach the housing-income relationship by calculating the income elasticity of demand for housing. This study employs this approach in order to (1) test the implications of the permanent income hypothesis by using data which provide both biased and unbiased elasticity coefficients and (2) test the effects which the explanatory variable, family composition, may have on the elasticity coefficients.

The methodology involves regressing the log of housing expenditure on the log of disposable income for seven different family compositions in order to obtain the income elasticity coefficients. This approach is applied to data (cross section 1960-61 BLS consumer surveys) …

Ua3/3/1 Student Housing Report, Nerge Pritchett, Wku President's Office

WKU Archives Records

Report created by the Bowling Green, Kentucky Building Inspector regarding the apartments and boarding houses used by WKU students in the city of Bowling Green.

Ua94/5/1 Special Meeting, Alpha Tau Omega

Student Organizations

Minutes of special meeting of the Board of Directors of the Kentucky Zeta Omega of Alpha Tau Omega, Inc. The meeting was called to discuss the acquisition of property at 1410 College Street to be used by the fraternity.

Ua3/3/1 Analysis Of The Demand For Married Student Housing At Wku, 1966-1967, R. E. Kramer, William Calvert, James Darden, Robert Hancock, Carol Lehman, Gary Lloyd, Robert Matthews, Melven Morris, Ronald Roby, Daniel Saur, Wayne Wilcox, Aubrey Wilson, Wku President's Office

WKU Archives Records

The purpose of this study is to bring forth relevant information needed to determine the feasibility of an investment project for a married student housing complex on the campus of Western Kentucky University. Only the demand side of the market is analyzed; a potential investor will have the construction and land costs for such an enterprise at his disposal. With the information presented in this study it is hoped that a decision to construct a housing complex will be forthcoming. The study group attempted to present information that will allow a potential investor to make an intelligent decision as to …

Ua97/1 Ogden Trustees Meeting Minutes, Ogden College Trustees

WKU Archives Records

Meeting minutes of Ogden College Trustees regarding Ogden College scholarships, construction on rental property and sales of real estate.

Ua97/1 Ogden Trustees Meeting Minutes, Ogden College Trustees

WKU Archives Records

Meeting minutes of the Ogden College trustees to discuss Ogden College scholarship applications, various leases of properties and real estate sale.

Ua97/1 Ogden Trustees Meeting Minutes, Ogden College Trustees

WKU Archives Records

Meeting minutes of the Ogden College trustees for 1942:

• March 4
• September 12

Topics discussed: leases of various properties, Ogden College scholarship applications and revisions to the 1927 lease of the Ogden College campus to WKU.

Ua97/1 Ogden Trustees Meeting Minutes, Ogden College Trustees

WKU Archives Records

Meeting minutes of the Ogden College trustees for 1941:

• June 10
• November 7
• December 9

Topics discussed: appointment of trustee Ward Sumpter, investments, real estate purchases in Bowling Green, Robinson Fund, lawsuit to break R.C.P. Thomas' will and leases of various properties.

Ua97/1 Ogden Trustees Meeting Minutes, Ogden College Trustees

WKU Archives Records

Meeting minutes of the Ogden College trustees regarding the death of regent R.C.P. Thomas, appointment of Cooper Smith as regent and secretary, improvements to 446 Main Street and investments.

Ua97/1 Ogden Trustees Meeting Minutes, Ogden College Trustees

WKU Archives Records

Meeting minutes of the Ogden College trustees for 1934:

• June 1
• no date, circa 1934

Topics include: purchase of property, investments, bids for building improvements to various holdings of the trustees in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Ua96/2 Meeting Minutes, Southern Educational Building Company

WKU Archives Records

Extant 1906 meeting minutes of the Southern Educational Building Company. Discussion of possible placement of Normal School in Bowling Green and transfer of property to state of Kentucky.

Ua96/2 Meeting Minutes, Southern Educational Building Company

WKU Archives Records

Extant 1905 meeting minutes of the Southern Educational Building Company directors. Discussion of property dispute with Mrs. Thomas Wright, transfer of stock, and dissolution of Southern Educational Building Company.

Ua96/2 Meeting Minutes, Southern Educational Building Company

WKU Archives Records

Extant 1903 meeting minutes of the Board of Directors of the Southern Educational Building Company. Discussion of sale of property.

Ua96/2 Meeting Minutes, Southern Educational Building Company

WKU Archives Records

Meeting minutes of the Board of Directors of the Southern Educational Building Company for 1899. Creation of committee to choose location, purchase of property, Creedmore Flenor chosen architect and construction