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Ua37/30/2 Wku Research Notecards - Y-Z Topics, Lowell Harrison Jan 1985

Ua37/30/2 Wku Research Notecards - Y-Z 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 18 topics beginning with Y & Z ranging from Yarbrough, Henry Marcus 1884-1982 to Zephyrus. There are no X topic cards.


Ua37/30/2 Wku Research Notecards - W Topics, Lowell Harrison Jan 1985

Ua37/30/2 Wku Research Notecards - W 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 56 topics beginning with W ranging from W Club to Wright, Henry 1878-1936.


Ua37/6 Gayle Carver & L.Y. Lancaster Interview, Sara Tyler, L. Y. Lancaster, Gayle Carver Jan 1973

Ua37/6 Gayle Carver & L.Y. Lancaster Interview, Sara Tyler, L. Y. Lancaster, Gayle Carver

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Interviews conducted by Sara Tyler with Gayle Carver and L.Y. Lancaster. The majority of the interviews are about the history of the Kentucky Building and Kentucky Museum collections. There is also information regarding WKU in the 1910s through 1950s, student activities, WKU Bookstore, faculty and staff members, Henry Cherry and other information about the early history of WKU.


Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson Jan 1970

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding E.A. Diddle.


Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson Dec 1969

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding student and teacher interactions.


Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson Oct 1969

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding the Vietnam Moratorium event on the WKU campus.


Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson Oct 1969

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding fraternities and student unrest.


Ua37/44 One Hundred Commencements, Gordon Wilson Aug 1969

Ua37/44 One Hundred Commencements, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding the 100th commencement and memories of other graduations at WKU.


Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson Apr 1969

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding Alpha Gamma Rho and student unrest.


Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson Oct 1968

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding professor Arndt Stickles.


Ua37/2 Carl Chelf - Henry Cherry Educator-Politician, Carl Chelf Jun 1968

Ua37/2 Carl Chelf - Henry Cherry Educator-Politician, Carl Chelf

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

This is a study of the role of polities in education-more specifically, the role of politics in the founding and development of a state college. It is not an exposé or an inside story of the sensational, "now it can ba toldB type. It is simply an analysis arid an attempted explanation of the interactions of the various elements in the policy-making process--public opinion, interest groups, individuals, legislators--in the founding and growth of a state college. The study will trace the evolution of an idea or public interest into public policy. This transformation of a public interest through periods of …


Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson Dec 1967

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding early student entertainment at WKU.


Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson Dec 1967

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding student entertainment at early WKU.


Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson Dec 1967

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding student morals at WKU.


Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson Dec 1967

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding original WKU dormitories Cherry Hall, Frisbie Hall and Bailey Hall.


Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson Dec 1967

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding chapel at WKU.


Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson Dec 1967

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding house mothers at WKU.


Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson Dec 1967

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding WKU students and professors.


Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson Oct 1967

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding school spirit.


Ua37 A Factbook Of Western Kentucky University, O. J. Wilson Oct 1967

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.


Ua37/35/3 Sociology At Western Kentucky University, Harold Hepler Jan 1967

Ua37/35/3 Sociology At Western Kentucky University, Harold Hepler

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Report on the history of the WKU Sociology Department for O.J. Wilson's History of WKU.


Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson Aug 1966

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding freedom of speech and communism.


Ua37/44 Student Government, Gordon Wilson May 1965

Ua37/44 Student Government, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding student government and student newspapers.


Ua37/44 Making Money For Schooling, Gordon Wilson May 1965

Ua37/44 Making Money For Schooling, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding jobs students worked to put themselves through college.


Ua37/44 The Ten Commandments & College, Gordon Wilson Apr 1965

Ua37/44 The Ten Commandments & College, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding students disregard for the ten commandments.


Ua37/2 Letter To Etta Runner, Ivan Wilson, Emma Wilson Mar 1963

Ua37/2 Letter To Etta Runner, Ivan Wilson, Emma Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Letter from Ivan & Emma Wilson to Etta Runner upon her retirement from WKU. It is an example of penmanship.


Ua37/21 Scrapbook, William Jenkins Jan 1943

Ua37/21 Scrapbook, William Jenkins

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Scrapbook created by William Jenkins commemorating his student days at Bowling Green Business University. Included are photographs, yearbook pages and commencement programs.


Ua37/20 Scrapbook, Margie Helm Jan 1932

Ua37/20 Scrapbook, Margie Helm

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Scrapbook dated 1889 to 1932 created by Margie Helm. Includes programs from a variety of events held at WKU for the period. Some items digitized and posted separately.


Ua3/1/7 Letter To George Cherry, Henry Cherry Dec 1931

Ua3/1/7 Letter To George Cherry, Henry Cherry

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Letter from Henry Cherry to his brother George Cherry regarding WKSNS and finances.


Ua37/42 The Taj, Vol. Ii, No. 10, Harrisonburg High School May 1917

Ua37/42 The Taj, Vol. Ii, No. 10, Harrisonburg High School

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

High school newspaper belonging to Nina Hammer. She wrote the Senior Class Prophecy which appears on page 3. A photo and brief biographical sketch of her appears on page 4.