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Western's New Deal: The Shaping Of College Heights During The Great Depression, Sean Jacobson

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

This thesis addresses the Great Depression's impact on public higher education by analyzing developments at Western Kentucky State Teachers College. It also seeks to understand factors leading to the enshrinement of Henry Hardin Cherry as a larger-than-life figure upon his death in 1937. An investigative study into primary materials found that the New Deal projects on campus provided a boost for Cherry's leadership and charisma in his community. The concurrence of his death with the construction of a classroom building funded by the Public Works Administration determined his memorialization for posterity. The building, Cherry Hall, emerged as an institutional symbol …

Ua3/1/2/2 President's Office-Cherry Correspondence - Special, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Special correspondence regarding Western Kentucky University. This series runs concurrently with the General Correspondence and there is no indication of what makes it special. Of special note is correspondence regarding the Student Army Training Corps, World War I veterans and construction of Cherry Hall. Incoming letters are mainly addressed to Henry Hardin Cherry. Responses are made by Cherry and occasionally by faculty and staff. The president's secretary Mattie McLean is the author of some of the letters signed by Cherry.

Ua30/1/2 Planning, Design & Construction Building File, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created during the construction and renovation of buildings at WKU.

Memories Kept In Cornerstone, Wku Student Affairs

2015: Cherry Statue Time Capsule

Article which appeared in the October 16, 1971 College Heights Herald commemorating Founders Day.

The New Classroom Building, Bill Bass, Western Kentucky University

2015: Cherry Statue Time Capsule

Postcard of the new classroom building which would be named Cherry Hall for Henry Cherry soon after his death. The rendering is by student Bill Bass. The back of the postcard is a description of the building. These were probably prepared to be given out as souvenirs at the dedication of the building.

Ua11/1 Teachers College Heights Vol. 16, No. 2, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

Teachers College Heights monthly magazine promoting WKU and documenting campus events and courses offered. Features included in this issue:

• Western Kentucky State Teachers College - Its Purpose
• Second Annual Dad's Day Program Given
• Legend of the Dogwood
• Henry Wright, 1878-1936 obituary
• The Training School of Western Teachers College
• A Brief Resume of the Graduate Work at Western Kentucky State Teachers College
• 1936 Homecoming Honored First Team
• Founders Day at Western Nov. 16
• Addresses Delivered at Corner Stone Laying, Cherry Hall by Henry Cherry, George Meuth, George Sager and H.W. Peters
• Seward, R.H. Thirteenth Annual Report of the College Heights Foundation …