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Ua1c4/5 Class Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of class groups from Western Kentucky University and its founding institutions.

Ua1c2/22 Southern Normal School Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of the Southern Normal School.

Ua3/1/5/2 President's Office-Cherry Campus Buildings, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by the President's Office during the Henry Hardin Cherry administration regarding the construction and maintenance of buildings.

Kirkland, Jesse C., 1866-1937 (Sc 1248), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1248. Letter written by Jesse Kirkland, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to his cousin John Milstead, Crossland, Kentucky, while attending school at Southern Normal School and Business College in Bowling Green. He describes a trip he took on the Green River and of seeing the landscape lit by electricity.

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 Much of the unpublished material is fiction but draws from Crabb's Plum Springs school days and his student experiences at Western Kentucky University.

Thompson, Harry Edgar, 1865-1964 (Sc 165), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 165. Materials related to education and teaching career of Harry Edgar Thompson. Includes commencement invitation and program of Southern Normal School, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1888; letters of recommendation, 1888-1893; Kentucky and Texas teaching certificates, 1885-1891; clippings; photographs; and autobiographical note, 1958, of Thompson, later a chiropractor in McPherson, Kansas.

Ua96/3 Southern Normal School Registrar, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about the Registrar of the Southern Normal School. The series is mainly comprised of class lists and registers. There are a few records relating to individual admissions and payment of tuition. Commencement programs and speeches by N.H. Gardner and Henry Cherry are included. See also Series 1 for course catalogs.

Ua96/2 Southern Normal School Board Of Directors, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about the Southern Normal School Board of Directors. Series includes certificates of incorporation, meeting minutes, financial records, construction records, contracts, correspondence and scrapbooks.

Ua96/4 Southern Normal School Departmental Records, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about individual departments of the Southern Normal School. The series contains brief information regarding athletics, business courses and music.

Ua52 Wku Genealogy Chart, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Records

Genealogical chart showing the evolution, name changes, splits and mergers that have occurred in WKU's history created for centennial.

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 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 Our Golden Wedding, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly, Addition to 1963 Supplement regarding Wilson's 50th wedding anniversary and the Southern Normal School.

Ua37/44 Our Early Crowded Conditions At The Normal, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly, Addition to 1963 Supplement regarding the Southern Normal School.

Ua11/1 Teachers College Heights Vol. 14, No. 4, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

Teachers College Heights magazine promoting WKU and documenting campus events and courses offered. This issue includes:

• Course Catalog 1934
• The Urania College & the Glasgow Normal
• The Alumni
• Life Certificate Class of 1909
• AB & BS Class of 1925
• Potter College
• College Paper Given to Students
• Amateur Radio
• Potter College Graduates
• Ogden College
• R.C.P. Thomas
• Alexander Witherspoon
• John Rodes
• Harold Helm
• Andrew Rose
• Max Nahm
• Walker Hines
• William Obenshain
• Crabb, Alfred. The Sixth of Nine Strong Sons, T.C. Cherry
• R.E Williams
• Editorial Glasgow Times
• New Commandant for ROTC, John Robinson
• Football Coaches from Western
• Victor Strahm
• J.R. Alexander
• Perry Snell …

Ua11/1 Teachers College Heights Vol. 14, No. 3, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

Teachers College Heights magazine promoting WKU and documenting campus events and courses offered.

• Fall Semester Courses, 1933
• Rifle Team Wins Honors
• County Superintendents Graduate from Western
• Faculty Entertains Graduates
• College Gives Specific Service to Rural Schools
• Breakfast for Dr. & Mrs. Lorado Taft
• Homecoming
• Potter College Reunion
• The Alumni Association
• Stickles, Arndt. New Book, Parlance of Kentucky Backwoods by Bess Cherry
• The Faculty
• AB & BS Class 1923-1924
• AB & BS Class of 1933
• Former Students Who Have Received the PhD Degree
• Class of 1908
• The Kentucky Building
• Southern Normal School Class of 1903
• Stickles, Arndt. WKU Occupies an Historic …

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.

Ua68/6/2 Chapel Program, Louis Yandell

Student Organizations

Early history of WKU's founding institutions presented at chapel. Louis Yandell was a member of the Class of 1931.

Ua12/2/1 Western Normal Letter, Vol. I, No. 12, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

Kentucky Educational Association issue promoting attendance at the meeting and the meeting of the Cherry Club for Southern Normal School alumni.

Ua45/2 Student / Alumni Register, Wku Registrar

WKU Archives Records

List of students/alumni created by Henry Cherry using index block of a ledger. The ledger does not exist. It is possible that this is a reconstituted list of students/alumni from the Southern Normal School.

Ua96/3 Commencement Program, Southern Normal School

WKU Archives Records

Commencement program for the Classic and Scientific Classes of 1907. Includes information regarding Baccalaureate services and several days of celebration. Classic Class graduates are listed with their home state.

Ua96/3 Commencement Program, Southern Normal School

WKU Archives Records

Invitation and commencement program for the Scientific Class of the Southern Normal School, Class of 1907, class list is included.

Ua96/3 Commencement Program, Southern Normal School

WKU Archives Records

Program for the Junior Recital portion of commencement exercises for the Southern Normal School Class of 1907. The class list is not included.

Ua45/1/1 State Normal Bulletin, Vol. I, No. 2, Wku Registrar

WKU Archives Records

Course catalog and newsletter:

• Board of Regents
• Calendar 1907
• Platform of the Western Kentucky State Normal School
• 510 Free Scholarships
• Courses of Study
• Conditions for Admission
• Condensed Information
• Summer School
• Moral & Religious Influences
• Faculty
• Educational Paragraphs
• The Opening – Western Kentucky State Normal School
• The Southern Normal School
• Outings
• Lecture Course
• The November Bulletin
• The May Issue of the Bulletin
• College Notes
• Personal Notes
• Dr. A.J. Kinnaman
• Guilliams, J.M. Pointed Paragraphs
• Free Tuition
• Scott, Sarah. Department of Method, Observation & Practice
• Vocal Music in the Public Schools
• Other News
• Calendar
• Expenses
• Board

Ua96/1 Southern Educator, Vol. Iii, No. 1, Southern Normal School

WKU Archives Records

Newspaper published by the Southern Normal School to advertise courses, publicize events on campus and keep alumni informed.

• Catalogue Information
• Literary Societies
• Important Suggestions
• Our Platform
• Library
• Our School May Not Suit You
• You Will Be Pleased
• Practical Information
• Teachers’ Department
• Some Advantages of the Teachers’ Course
• Course of Study in Southern Normal School
• Remarks on the Preparatory Course
• Scientific Course
• Classical Course
• Other Features Free
• J.S. Dickey
• Elocution & Oratory
• Conservatory of Music
• A Safe Place for Young Students at School Away from Home – Frisbie Hall
• Class of 1906 (SNS)
• Class of 1906 (BGBU)
• Editorial Notes – Western …

Ua96/2 Meeting Minutes, Southern Educational Building Company

WKU Archives Records

Extant 1906 meeting minutes of the Southern Educational Building Company. Discussion of possible placement of Normal School in Bowling Green and transfer of property to state of Kentucky.

Ua96/1 Southern Educator, Vol.2, No. 4, Southern Normal School

WKU Archives Records

Quarterly newspaper published by the Southern Normal School to advertise courses, publicize events on campus and keep alumni informed.

• School of Shorthand
• Another Record
• Civil Service Opportunities
• School of Telegraphy
• A Business College
• Can You Beat Them?
• Class of 1906 (BGBU)
• Alumni of Southern Normal School
• To Our Boys & Girls
• Rates of Tuition Bowling Green Business University
• A New & Valuable Feature – Lectures by Businessmen
• Points
• A Rare Opportunity
• The BGBU Man
• Board
• Can I Get a Position?
• Special
• A Strong Address – W.S. Ashby
• The Southern Normal School

Ua96/2 Meeting Minutes, Southern Educational Building Company

WKU Archives Records

Extant 1905 meeting minutes of the Southern Educational Building Company directors. Discussion of property dispute with Mrs. Thomas Wright, transfer of stock, and dissolution of Southern Educational Building Company.

Ua96/1 The Southern Educator, Vol. 2, No. 2, Southern Normal School

WKU Archives Records

Newsletter created by the Southern Normal School to promote the school. Includes descriptions of courses, lists of students and alumni and photographs.

• Found Every Term at Southern Normal
• Cramming for Examinations
• Basketball
• Calendar
• Summer School
• Editorial
• The Law School
• Scientific Notes
• The Classical Course
• Why Not?
• Hints to Teachers
• Our School for Shorthand
• Bowling Green Business University
• Our School of Telegraphy
• Are You Plastic?

Ua96/3 Commencement Program, Southern Normal School

WKU Archives Records

Commencement program for the Southern Normal School Class of 1905, includes class list.