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Ua12/2/1 Fit 2020, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

Special edition of the College Heights Herald regarding fitness, includes articles:

• Dees, Marshall. Nostalgic Fun for the Child in You
• Rock Steady, Rock Strong – Boxing
• Dowell, Macie. Red Towel Workouts
• Bowling Green Course Welcomes New Golfers – Bowling Green Parks & Recreation
• Get Out, Get Fit – Parks
• Gym Jams

Ua12/2/61 Class Of 1958, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about the Class of 1958.

Ua1c4/6 Fraternities Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of fraternity groups.

Ua1c4/7 Student Groups & Association Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of student groups and associations not otherwise listed.

Ua1c2/31 Garrett Conference Center Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of Garrett Conference Center.

Ua1c11/98 Nina Hammer Photo Collection, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Photographs of and by Nina Hammer.

Phelps, Edwin Dolphus, 1948-2015 (Sc 2916), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2916. “My Friend—Mr. Diddle,” a reminiscence by Edwin D. Phelps of WKU basketball coach E. A. Diddle. Includes an autobiographical sketch by Phelps.

Ua12/12 Intramural & Recreational Sports, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about Intramural & Recreational Sports.

Ua12/2/1 Hillside, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

Special magazine edition of the College Heights Herald:

• Hobbs, Meghan. A Turning Point – Julie Heinze, Boy Scouts, Non-Traditional Students
• Broadbent, Stephanie. Free Falling – Sky Diving

Ua12/2/1 Breakin' Away, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

Special magazine edition of the College Heights Herald:

• Edwards, Don. Tanning: Despite the Risks, Students Take the Chance
• Hankins, Tammy. Some Students Plan to Have a Non-Traditional Spring Break
• Flener, Arnold. Religious Groups Plan to Help Others During the Break
• Osborne, Sherri. Pumping Iron: Some Students Shaping Up Before They Ship Out
• Kemp, Bill. Professors: Work & Fun Are On the Spring Break Syllabus
• Provano, Jennifer. Travelers Should Play It Safe On the Road While Driving
• Madison, Ann. Spring Break: It Only Happens in America
• Allen, Craig. Snowy Memories Keeping Some Students Home
• Grundy, Julie. There Are a Few …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 66, No. 13, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Phillips, Noelle. Students Seeking Regents’ Attention – Western XXI
• Bricking, Tanya. Climbs Peak His Interest – William Kummer aka Biff
• Hoover, Amy. Nurses’ Salaries Increasing
• Officers Have Lead in Killing of Co-ed – Kristi Hedden
• Survey Measures Students’ Concerns – Campus Crusade for Christ
• Homecoming Rally Gets New Location – Big Red’s Roar
• Humanities Fellowships to be Offered
• Meetings’ Legality Questioned - Regents
• Alpha Gamma Rho Charter Temporarily Suspended
• Board Shouldn’t Vote on Draft Monday – Western XXI
• Bradley, Jim. Editorial Cartoon Students Chasing Western …

Ua12/2/2 Talisman: Image In The Making, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

1989 Talisman yearbook.

• Image in the Making
• Student Life
• Black, Samuel. Do the Party a Favor – Ronald Reagan
• Carmack, Jody. One In a Million – Kentucky Lottery
• Adams, Jeanie. It’s An Uphill Battle – Cary White, Handicapped Persons
• Devaney, Mike & Jody Carmack. Coming to America – Mike Devaney, International Students, Soccer
• Hadley, Kim. Higher Education – Churches, Religion
• Black, Samuel. Better Late Than Never – Greg Frasier, Cycling
• Burton, Marsha. Geared for Speed – Lynn Ellison, Drag Racing
• Hadley, Kim. The Church Service – Concerts
• Black, Sam. Making Moo-La – Spring Female Sale, Cattle, Kentucky Charolais Association
• Image …

Ua64/10/5 Scrapbook, 1977-1989, Wku Recreation Majors' Club

Student Organizations

Scrapbook created by the WKU Recreation Majors' Club for 1977-1989. Book includes photographs of events and outings, invitations, correspondence and clippings.

Ua3/7/1 Outline Of Proposal For Indoor Recreation And Life Center, Wku President's Office

WKU Archives Records

Proposal for student recreation center which would become the Raymond B. Preston Health and Activities Center.

• Chapter I. Introduction to Proposal
• Chapter II. Need for Multi-purpose Center
• Chapter III. Educational Significance and Benefits of the Center
• Chapter IV. Facilities to be Included in the Center
• Chapter V. Design of the Center
• Chapter VI. Location of the Center
• Chapter VII. Funding Sources for Proposed Center
• Chapter VIII. Facility Space Needs

Behavior Of Retarded Clients As A Function Of Access To Leisure Activities Oriented Toward Task Completion, David R. Keltner

Home Economics and Family Living Theses

This thesis represents an investigation of the effects of increased access to task completion activities on the behavior of institutionalized retarded clients. The hypothesis was that increased access to task completion leisure activities (non-competitive free time activities requiring the subject to attend to a constructive task during at least five free time periods over the course of the study) would result in reduced frequency of unacceptable social behaviors in a group of institutionalized retarded clients. A hobby kit designed according to the experimental definition of leisure activity was made available to each subject in the experimental group. Target behaviors (social …

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.

Ua64/10/5 Scrapbook, 1979-1980, Kentucky Recreation & Park Society Student Section

Student Organizations

Scrapbook created by members of the Kentucky Recreation & Park Society Student Section for the 1979-1980 school year. Book includes photographs of events and program notices.

Ua12/2/1 September Magazine, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

Special magazine edition of the College Heights Herald includes these articles:

• Hancock, Catherin. Bored in Bowling Green: It’s Not Just the River that’s Barren
• Taylor, Susan. Still Cheering After All These Years – Cook Twins, Anna Cook Pickens, Betty Cook Gibson
• Fish, Tim. Carnival Knowledge – Beech Bend Park

A Comparison Of Traditional Grass-Twist Backstops To One Of Corrugated Cardboard Design Use On Indoor Ranges, Charles T. Crume Jr.

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This study presents the results of a comparison of traditional grass-twist backstops frequently used on indoor ranges with one of corrugated cardboard design. The findings indicate that the corrugated cardboard design is substantially superior.

The four factors selected for testing were:

1. Arrow pass-through levels and subsequent arrow repair costs
2. Arrow penetration levels, tested over several distances and using several bow weights
3. Arrow-stopping potential with beginning and inexperienced archers
4. Storage

Testing showed the first three factors supporting the corrugated cardboard design. The last factor, storage, was found to be about equally supportive of both designs.

Several recommendations are made. These recommendations …

Recreation Needs Of Pre-Adolescent Girls In Selected Public Schools, Michael Aune

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

There was a need to determine the recreation needs of girls in the pre-adolescent age range of nine through fourteen years old so that municipal recreation professionals may program activities to meet the desires of this specific population. In order to do this, a testing instrument was developed. The test, a recreation preference schedule, used closed questions exclusively, unlike many of the available checklist surveys. The recreation preference schedule was modeled after the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule that was used in counseling. The new test, containing one hundred questions, utilized ten recreation activity categories. It was checked for reliability and …

A Recent History Of Subject Philosophy And Pedagogical Style In Physical Education: A Case Study In Curriculum Change, Kenneth Atkins

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The Journal of Health, Physical Education and Recreation was subjected to a content analysis for the period 1963-1973 using subject philosophy, pedagogical style, and contributors as the content indicators. The study examines how curriculum change and subject content reflect change and ideology in the wider society. Justifications for teaching physical education have shifted from a traditional emphasis on fitness and character training to education for leisure and lifetime sports and the desirability of self-actualization via movement education. The study argues that those changes parallel a move in the requirements of the social and economic structure, from mass wage labor to …

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 …

Ua6 Lost River Cave: Old Developments, New Developments, Kenneth W. Smith

WKU Archives Records

Paper written by Kenneth Smith for Management 410 class in 1976 regarding the potential business development of Lost River Cave.

Ua94/5/1 Alpha Tau Omega Chapter Advisors Manual, Alpha Tau Omega

Student Organizations

Handbook for managing the Alpha Tau Omega chapter at Western Kentucky University.

Ua94/5/1 Ato Founder's Day Banquet, Alpha Tau Omega

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Program for the Alpha Tau Omega founder's day banquet.

Ua94/5/1 Founders Day Notes, John Perkins

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Notes for presentation given at the Alpha Tau Omega founders day festivities which includes the Barons fraternity.

Ua94/5/1 Founders Day Notes, John Perkins

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Notes for presentation given at the Alpha Tau Omega founders day festivities which includes the Barons fraternity.

A Survey Of Physical Education; Athletics; Health And Intra-Murals In The Ohio Valley Conference With A Suggested Program For Western Kentucky State College, Frank Griffin

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The writer of this thesis with the counsel of Dr. Lee F. Jones of the Education Department, and Dr. E. Kelly Thompson, President of Western, decided to make a survey of the status of physical education in the Ohio Valley Conference by means of a questionnaire and through personal interviews. With the materials obtained from the questionnaire and personal interviews with the Directors of Physical Education of the various colleges a proposed program of physical education was organized for Western Kentucky State College.