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Ua37/42 Faculty Personal Papers Nina Hammer, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Personal papers of Nina Hammer, Bowling Green Business University Registrar 1938-1963; WKU Registrar 1963-1969.

Mills, Barbara Ann (Tucker), 1931-2020 (Sc 921), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 921. Barbara Ann (Tucker) Mills writes of her life growing up in a home in Bowling Green, Kentucky that provided rooms and meals for students at Western Kentucky State Teachers College and Bowling Green Business University during the 1930s and 1940s. Her parents, known and “Ma Tucker” and “Pa Tucker,” operated boardinghouses located on College Street. Also includes two family photographs.

Ua1b2/1/3 Oral History, Paula Trafton, Mary Sample

WKU Archives Records

Interview conducted by Paula Trafton with Mary Sample regarding her time as a student, College High teacher and executive secretary to Dero Downing from 1957 to 2005.

Ua77/1 Those Fabulous Fifties, Wku Alumni Relations

WKU Archives Records

Alumni directory for the classes of 1950 through 1959 of WKU and the Bowling Green Business University. Contains segments on homecoming, athletics, arts and student life. Also included are selected graduate biographies.

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.

Ua37/21 Nina Hammer Interview, William Jenkins

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Transcript of oral history conducted by William Jenkins with Nina Hammer regarding her time as a student and Registrar at the Bowling Green Business University.

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.

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding the razing of the Bowling Green Business University.

Ua99/3 Commencement Program, Bgbu Registrar

WKU Archives Records

Commencement program listing graduates of the Bowling Green Business College Class of 1963.

Ua99/3 Commencement Program, Bgbu Registrar

WKU Archives Records

Commencement program listing Bowling Green Business University graduates in the Class of 1962.

Ua37/42 The General Journal, No. 4, Bgbu Veterans Club

WKU Archives Records

Fourth issue of the General Journal newspaper created by the Bowling Green Business University Veterans Club for veterans.

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. 14, Whas, Western Kentucky University, Earl Moore

WKU Archives Records

Script for weekly WKU broadcast on WHAS radio. This show included Earl Moore, B.S. Rutherford, J. Lewie Harmon, Garentte Stout, Bowling Green Women's Music Club, John Rodes,

Ua1a Students Weekly, News Publishing Company

WKU Archives Records

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

Ua1a Students Weekly, News Publishing Company

WKU Archives Records

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

Ua99/1 Scrapbook, Bgbu President's Office

WKU Archives Records

Scrapbook created by BGBU president J. Lewie Harman of newspaper clippings, correspondence, song lyrics, programs, postcards and poetry on a variety of topics. Many items are not dated. The earliest dated item is from 1874 and the latest is from 1933.

Ua99/1 Scrapbook 7, Bgbu President's Office

WKU Archives Records

Scrapbook created by BGBU president J. Lewie Harman of speeches, photographs, postcards, poetry, correspondence and political cartoons on a variety of topics. Many items are not dated. The earliest dated item is from 1923 and the latest is from 1933.

Ua3/1/4 Why?, Henry Cherry

WKU Archives Records

Speech by Henry Cherry wherein he recounts the history of the Southern Normal, Bowling Green Business University and the foundation of Western Kentucky University.

Ua99/1 Scrapbook, Bgbu President's Office

WKU Archives Records

Scrapbook created by BGBU president J. Lewie Harman of newspaper clippings, correspondence, song lyrics, programs and poetry on a variety of topics. Many items are not dated. The earliest dated item is from 1896 and the latest is from 1932.

Ua99/1 Scrapbook, Part 1, Bgbu President's Office

WKU Archives Records

Scrapbook created by BGBU president J. Lewie Harman of newspaper clippings, high school graduation programs, meeting programs, speech notes and personal items.

Ua99/1 Scrapbook, Part 2, Bgbu President's Office

WKU Archives Records

Scrapbook created by BGBU president J. Lewie Harman of newspaper clippings, high school graduation programs, meeting programs, speech notes and personal items.

Ua37/42 Banquet Program, Bowling Green Business University

WKU Archives Records

Program for Bowling Green Business University Class of 1926 banquet.

Ua37/42 Banquet Program, Bowling Green Business University

WKU Archives Records

Program for the Bowling Green Business University Class of 1924 banquet.

Ua99/9 Bowling Green Business University Student Body, Bowling Green Business University

WKU Archives Records

Panoramic photograph of the Bowling Green Business University student body standing in front of Van Meter Hall.

Ua99/9 Sns/Bgbu National School Of Telegraphy, Civil Service, Railroading & Express, Bowling Green Business University, Southern Normal School

WKU Archives Records

Newsletter created by the SNS/BGBU National School of Telegraphy, Civil Service, Railroading & Express to promote the school. Includes descriptions of courses, lists of students and alumni and photographs.

Ua99/9 Sns/Bgbu National School Of Telegraphy, Civil Service, Railroading & Express, Bowling Green Business University, Southern Normal School

WKU Archives Records

Newsletter created by the SNS/BGBU National School of Telegraphy, Civil Service, Railroading & Express to promote the school. Includes descriptions of courses, lists of students and alumni and photographs.