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Ua1f Ogden Trustees Scholarship Award Winners, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Records

List of Ogden Trustees scholarship award winners.

Ua1f Ogden-Robinson Oratorical Contest Winners, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Records

List of winners of the Ogden-Robinson oratorical contests. These two oratorical contests originated in the Ogden College in 1885. The Robinson award is given to the winner of a contest for freshmen and sophomores. The Ogden Medal is given to the winner of the upperclassman contest. Since the merger of Ogden College and WKU the even is generally held on or near Ogden College Founders’ Day which is observed on the first Friday of April.

Ua1f Ogden Trustee Medal Winners, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Records

List of Ogden Trustee medal winners, 1890-1927.

Crabb, Alfred Leland, 1884-1979 (Mss 367), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and bibliography (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 367. Correspondence, book and article manuscripts, and research material of Alfred Leland Crabb, a native of Warren County, Kentucky and later professor at George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, Tennessee. The topics of the manuscripts include historical fiction related to Nashville and Bowling Green, biographies of prominent Nashvillians, and articles on all levels of education. Much of the unpublished material is fiction but draws from Crabb's Plum Springs school days and his student experiences at Western Kentucky University.

Ua94/2 Student / Alumni Personal Papers Ogden College, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Small collections of items donated by or about Ogden alumni.

Ua37/11 Faculty/Staff Personal Papers James Cornette, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Publications related to Western Kentucky University and Bowling Green by James Cornette.

Ua1b2/1 Ogden College 1877-1966 History In Brief, Daniel Lee Starnes

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

A brief history of Ogden College which includes a timeline of events, history, images and overview of research process.

Ua37/30/2 Wku Research Notecards - A 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 170 topics beginning with A ranging from AAUP to Awards.

Ua37/30/2 Sarah Thompson, Lowell Harrison, Sarah Pearce Thompson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Letter from Sarah Thompson to Lowell Harrison regarding WKU / Bowling Green relations. Harrison's research notes.

Ua52/1 Alumni Memories, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Records

Memories of WKU and other alumni solicited by WKU Archives.

Ua68/8/2 Jo "Top" Orendorf Oral History, James Bennett

WKU Archives Records

An interview on April 13, 1978 with Jo "Top" Orendorf, Ogden College graduate conducted by James Bennett.

Ua68/8/2 Frances Richards Oral History, James Bennett, Lowell Harrison

WKU Archives Records

An interview on December 14, 1977 with Frances Richards, WKU alum and English professor 1925-1964 conducted by Lowell Harrison and James Bennett.

Ua68/8/2 Ward Sumpter Oral History, James Bennett

WKU Archives Records

An interview on December 15, 1976 with Ward Sumpter, Ogden College alum and WKU Chemistry professor 1928-1965 conducted by James Bennett.

Warren College - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1406), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1406. Minutes and business papers pertaining to Warren College, Bowling Green, Kentucky. The Louisville Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, organized the college for males. It was in operation from 1859 to 1879, and then was sold to Ogden College. An index accompanies the papers as well as associated data.

Ua37 A Factbook Of Western Kentucky University, O. J. Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

A factbook compiled by O.J. Wilson regarding the pre-history of WKU and the history of the university from 1907 through 1967. It includes chapters:

• Genealogical Background
• The Presidents
• Academic Expansion at Western
• The Physical Plant
• Traditions at WKU
• Intercollegiate Athletics at Western
• Sixty Years of Vital Statistics
• Chronology of Historical Events
• Western's Faculty & Staff

An appendix is listed, but was not included with the factbook.

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.

Ua11/1 Teachers College Heights, Vol. Xiii, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

Teachers College Heights monthly magazine promoting WKU and documenting campus events and courses offered. This special 25th anniversary issue includes:

• Our Hill
• The Glasgow Normal School and the Southern Normal School and Business University
• Bowling Green Business College and Literary Institute
• The Southern Normal School and Bowling Green Business College
• Ideals in Action
• The Western Kentucky State Normal School
• The Plant
• A Condensed Biography of Henry Cherry
• The Beginning and the Present
• Then and Now
• Western, Ogden, Potter and Southern Normal
• The Proposed Memorial Tower
• Special Appropriations
• Extra-Curricular Activities

Ua97/7 The Cardinal, Vol. Vi, No. 5, Ogden College

WKU Archives Records

Newspaper created by the students of Ogden College a prep school for boys in Bowling Green which operated from 1877 to 1927.

Ua97/7 The Cardinal, Vol. Vi, No. 1, Ogden College

WKU Archives Records

Newspaper created by the students of Ogden College a prep school for boys in Bowling Green which operated from 1877 to 1927.

Ua97/7 The Cardinal, Vol. V, No. 6, Ogden College

WKU Archives Records

Newspaper created by the students of Ogden College a prep school for boys in Bowling Green which operated from 1877 to 1927.

Ua97/7 The Cardinal, Vol. 2, No. 14, Ogden College

WKU Archives Records

Newspaper created by the students of Ogden College a prep school for boys in Bowling Green which operated from 1877 to 1927.

Ua97/7 The Cardinal, Vol. 2, No. 13, Ogden College

WKU Archives Records

Newspaper created by the students of Ogden College a prep school for boys in Bowling Green which operated from 1877 to 1927.

Ua97/6 Founder's Day Banquet Program, Ogden College Literary Society

WKU Archives Records

Program created for the Founder's Day banquet hosted by the Ogden College Literary Society. Includes list of officers, members and toasts given.