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Ray, Joseph Malchus, 1907-1991 (Sc 3329), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ray, Joseph Malchus, 1907-1991 (Sc 3329), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text scan of memoirs and photographs and digital files of interviews (Click on "Additional Files" below to access) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3329. Memoirs, sundry papers, and oral histories of Joseph Malchus Ray, a native of Warren County, Kentucky, who went on to teach at universities in Texas, Alabama and Maryland. He ended his career as president of the University of Texas at El Paso in 1968, but stayed on afterwards as the H.Y. Benedict Professor of Political Science at UTEP. The memoirs discuss in detail his professional and personal life and the values that shaped …
Farley, Seth Thomas, Jr., 1917-1999 (Mss 617), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Farley, Seth Thomas, Jr., 1917-1999 (Mss 617), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 617. Correspondence, documents, news clippings and ephemera from Seth Thomas Farley, Jr., a life-long educator. This collection includes a good deal of information about Farley’s teaching career prior to his work as a professor at WKU, his involvement in organizations that fought alcoholism and gambling (particularly the lottery in Kentucky), his church work, and his service on a committee to choose a federal magistrate for the western district of Kentucky. The collection includes an entire box of assessment related material related to Fort Knox Dependent Schools in the mid-1960s.
Mcgregor Collection (Mss 566), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcgregor Collection (Mss 566), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 566. Correspondence, accounts, and lists of materials relating to the acquisition by the Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University, of rare books, periodicals and manuscripts with funding provided by the McGregor Plan.
Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 (Sc 1112), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 (Sc 1112), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1112. Transcript of an interview with Mary Julia Neal, Bowling Green, Kentucky, conducted by Gina Claywell. Claywell was interested chiefly in Neal’s experiences as a student at Bethel College, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and as a teacher at Western Kentucky University in the 1930s and 1940s.
Stansbury, Edgar Bryant, 1906-2009 (Mss 438), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stansbury, Edgar Bryant, 1906-2009 (Mss 438), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 438. World War II diary kept by Edgar Bryant Stansbury, 1942, as well as articles by Stansbury, his thesis about industrial arts in Kentucky high schools, a scrapbook about his sports participation at Western Kentucky University, and several other items related to his experiences in World War II.
Weaver, Bill L. (Mss 389), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Weaver, Bill L. (Mss 389), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 389. Correspondence between Bill L. Weaver, a graduate of Western Kentucky University and former history instructor, and WKU history professor Lowell H. Harrison. Most of the correspondence took place during Weaver’s tenure as an administrator at the University of Alabama-Birmingham School of Medicine.
Travelstead, Chester Coleman, 1911-2006 (Mss 281), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Travelstead, Chester Coleman, 1911-2006 (Mss 281), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 281. Chiefly personal and professional correspondence, speeches, journal articles, reminiscences, and news clippings of noted educator Chester Coleman Travelstead. Of particular interest are the materials related to his 1955 dismissal from the University of South Carolina owing to his support of racial integration. Also includes correspondence and diaries of his mother Nelle (Gooch) Travelstead, long-time Western Kentucky University faculty member.
Chelf, Carl Philip, 1937-2011 (Sc 2393), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Chelf, Carl Philip, 1937-2011 (Sc 2393), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2393. "A Selective View of the Politics of Higher Education in Kentucky and the Role of H.H. Cherry, Educator-Politician," a dissertation presented by Carl Chelf in partial fulfillment fo the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1968.
Marshall, Nancy Carol (Richey), B. 1959 (Sc 1653), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Marshall, Nancy Carol (Richey), B. 1959 (Sc 1653), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1653. Paper titled: "The Higher Road" about the life of long-time Western Kentucky University music professor Nelle Gooch Travelstead. The paper was written by Nancy Marshall for a history class at Western Kentucky University.
Porter, Donald And Janice A. (Insko) Porter (Mss 173), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Porter, Donald And Janice A. (Insko) Porter (Mss 173), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding Aid only for Manuscript Collection 173. Correspondence between Donald Porter and Janice Insko, his future wife, during and just after the Korean War, while Don was serving in a medical support division in Germany and she was a student at Western. Letters concern military life abroad and the everyday life of a student at Western Kentucky State College.
Downing, Dero Goodman, 1921-2011 (Sc 1373), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Downing, Dero Goodman, 1921-2011 (Sc 1373), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1373. Letters written by Dero G. Downing as a Western Kentucky University student, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1942, and as a Navy officer, 1944-1945, to his parents, Horse Cave, Kentucky and Dunbar, West Virginia. Discusses events as a member of the WKU basketball team that played in the NCAA tournament. Includes some news of his naval life.