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Ua1c4/6 Fraternities Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of fraternity groups.

Fuller, Mike (Fa 792), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full text paper (click Additional Files below) for Folklife Archives Project 792. This collection features a term paper about raccoon hunting in Clinton County, Kentucky. Included in the paper are personal experience narratives and details about how to go about the hunt. The project was completed by Western Kentucky University student Mike Fuller for credit in an "Introduction to Folk Studies" class.

Dainty Festival - Louisville, Kentucky (Fa 616), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 616. This collection includes information about the annual Dainty Festival of Louisville, Kentucky hosted by the Schnitzelburg German-American community.

Ua94/6/1 Scrapbook, Bryant Medley

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Scrapbook created by Bryant Medley during his freshman year at WKU. Includes event invitations and broadsides, awards, newspaper clippings regarding social life at WKU in 1983-1984.

Fandom Is A Way Of Life: A Folkloristic Ethnography Of Science Fiction Fandom, David Axler

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

A science fiction (“sf”) fan is an individual whose interest in this literary genre has extended past reading into involvement in such things as local science fiction clubs, fan magazines (“fanzines”), and sf conventions (“cons”). Science fiction fandom is the loosely-structured, geographically-dispersed organization of these fans. Drawing on both written sources and field interviews with eight informants, the history, composition and structure of sf fandom is examined from a folkloristic viewpoint. The forms of folklore which serve to bind the individual fan to the larger social entity of fandom are detailed.

Despite its literary orientation, fandom is primarily a social …

Ua94/5/1 Thirteeners Pledge Book, Richard Minton

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Pledge book for the Thirteeners fraternity belonging to Richard Minton. The book contains duties of the pledge, class schedule, notes from Thirteener members, addresses of members and other pledge notes. The members address section includes their major, class, office held, nicknames and girl pinned to as applicable.

Ua94/5/1 Roa's Communique, Vol. 3, No. 1, Rho Omega Alpha

Student Organizations

Newsletter created by the Rho Omega Alpha fraternity

Ua94/5/1 Beta Omega Chi Dance Card, Beta Omega Chi

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Beta Omega Chi dance program and card for the spring formal belonging to George Wells. Includes program, menu, list of members and officers, Beta Omega Chi song lyrics and dance card.

Ua94/5/1 Kappa Beta Pi Backward Dance, Kappa Beta Pi

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Kappa Beta Pi backward dance, dance card belonging to Leone Brewer. It includes a list of officers and members, ads from Bowling Green merchants and a dance card.

Ua94/5/1 Pi Tau Nu Autograph Card, Leone Brewer

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Pi Tau Nu autograph book belonging to Leone Brewer. It was possibly used as a dance card or party favor for an unidentified event.

Ua94/5/1 Fifteeners Dance Card, Fifteeners

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Fifteeners dance card belonging to Leone Brewer. Includes names for 21 dances.

Ua94/5/1 Barons Formal Of Forty-Two, Barons Fraternity

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Barons fraternity dance program and card belonging to member George Wells. Includes program, menu, list of members and officers, dance card and Barons song lyrics.