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The Colonelette (February 1970), Department Of Library Special Collections

The Colonelette

On September 22, 1949, Shirley Cupp, Irma Beisel, Frances Stuckey and Mr. Hilary Bufton Jr. met in a coffee shop in downtown Kansas City to incorporate the American Business Women’s Association (ABWA). Jean Fulkerson helped start The Kentucky Colonels Chapter on 3 June 1964 in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Twenty-six women met at Western Hills Restaurant and elected Linda Sidebottom as the first president. Besides providing professional development opportunities for local businesswomen, the Chapter gave scholarships to women furthering their education, and held social and recognition events throughout the year. Their newsletter, “The Colonelette,” was started in June 1964. Also included …

Ua35/1 Academic Newsletter, Vol. Iv, No. 5, Wku Provost

WKU Administration Documents

The publication of the Academic Newsletter by the staff of the Vice-President of Academic Affairs is an attempt to familiarize the faculty with campus-wide developments. It is the purpose of the newsletter to provide information of a professional and personal nature about the faculty and in addition a variety of general academic information and announcements.

Agenda & Meeting Minutes, Wku Council Of Academic Deans

Council of Academic Deans

Meeting regarding tenure and promotion.

Ua60/3/3 January Commissioning Exercises Program, Wku Military Science

WKU Administration Documents

Program for ROTC commissioning exercises.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Council Of Academic Deans

Council of Academic Deans

Meeting regarding exam schedules and faculty recruitment.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 49, No. 24, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU Campus Newspaper Reporting Campus, Athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky News. This issue contains articles:

• Neumayer, Rick. Associated Students Congress Joins Fight to Oppose Superboard
• Work Halts on Constitution
• Neumayer, Rick. Student Seeking Right to Vote on Board – Paul Gerard
• Symphony Season to Begin Tonight
• Seniors Reach Award Finals
• Programs Offer Foreign Travel – Modern Languages, Geography & Geology
• Gerald Else to Speak Here Tonight
• Try Outs for Play to Begin Feb. 4
• Independent Poll Needed for Teacher Evaluation
• Student Regent Deserves Vote
• Constitution Overdue
• Eldridge, Charles. E.A. Diddle
• Could Congress Do Better by Learning Facts First?
• McDaniel, Mike. …

Ua94/6/1 Russell Vertner - A Study & Comparison Of Attitudes In Relation To Black Students At Western, Russell Vertner

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Paper written by student Russell Vertner for Office Administration 461 Report Writing Class in January 1970.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Council Of Academic Deans

Council of Academic Deans

Meeting regarding faculty recruitment.

Black Student Enrollment At Kentucky Independent Colleges & Universities, Wku Council Of Academic Deans

Council of Academic Deans

Handout for the January 12, 1970 meeting regarding black student enrollment in Kentucky colleges.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 49, No. 23, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU Campus Newspaper Reporting Campus, Athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky News. This issue contains articles:

• Patterson, Tom. Western Says Goodbye to ‘Uncle Ed’ – E.A. Diddle
• Neumayer, Rick. Suggestions Sought on Student Power
• Wilkerson, Larry. $28.3 Million Proposed for WKU
• Top Scholar Dies in Crash – Margaret Woodall
• Students Honored at Awards Assembly
• Executive Club to Meet Tuesday – Third District Education Association
• Activity Almanac
• Alpha Omicron Pi Elects Officers
• He Captured the Love of Thousands – E.A. Diddle
• Bloodmobile Deserves Wide Student Support
• Martin, Bill. Advises Involvement
• Ferguson, Brent. Favors Curriculum Change
• Bowles, David. Defends ROTC
• McDaniel, Mike. Father …

Whop 30th Anniversary Special, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

1940:

- (00:01:45) Heck Lackey announced at 6:00pm on January 8^th, 1940, that WHOP would begin broadcasting on channel 1200. Eventually the station would be moved to channel 1230.

- (00:03:20) Until a flood emergency in 1937, local radio stations were not very common (or even seen as necessary) only large cities like Louisville or Paducah had stations. However, by 1939, Lackey’s vision for Hopkinsville to have a local radio station was growing.

- (00:06:20) A relative of Lackey who helped found WHOP claimed the two began the process without much prior knowledge on the subject. Despite having …

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

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

U.S. House Journal Of William H. Natcher, Vol. 27, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

U.S. House Journals of William H. Natcher

Journal, 19 January 1970 to 28 July 1970, of U.S. Congressman William Huston Natcher while he was representing Kentucky’s 2^nd District. The journal includes an almost daily account of Natcher’s reflections on current events and transactions with the U.S. House of Representatives. Many of the entries contain typescripted newspaper articles with some editorial comment provided by Natcher, others are more personal in nature.

U.S. House Journal Of William H. Natcher, Vol. 28, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

U.S. House Journals of William H. Natcher

Journal, 29 July 1970 to 28 December 1970, of U.S. Congressman William Huston Natcher while he was representing Kentucky’s 2^nd District. The journal includes an almost daily account of Natcher’s reflections on current events and transactions with the U.S. House of Representatives. Many of the entries contain typescripted newspaper articles with some editorial comment provided by Natcher, others are more personal in nature.

U.S. House Journal Of William H. Natcher, Vol. 29, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

U.S. House Journals of William H. Natcher

Journal, 29 December 1970 to 28 May 1971, of U.S. Congressman William Huston Natcher while he was representing Kentucky’s 2^nd District. The journal includes an almost daily account of Natcher’s reflections on current events and transactions with the U.S. House of Representatives. Many of the entries contain typescripted newspaper articles with some editorial comment provided by Natcher, others are more personal in nature.

Lucas, Nathaniel, 1755?-1807 (Sc 1419), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1419. Letters (pasted on inside backs of a Bible), 1781, 1786, written by soldier Nathaniel Lucas, Camp Surrey, Virginia, to his sweetheart Sarah Rivers, Brunswick County, Virginia, describing Revolutionary War events; 1786 letter to now wife Sarah containing family news. Later associated items relate to the weaving interests of Louisa Tate Bousman.

Ua12/2/36 Scrapbook, Gamma Sigma Sigma

Student Organizations

Scrapbook chronicling Gamma Sigma Sigma activities and events of 1970.

Ua19/17/1/1 Baseball Media Guide, Wku Athletic Media Relations

WKU Administration Documents

Baseball media guide for the 1970 season with recap of the 1969 season.

Ua19/17/1/4 Football Media Guide, Wku Athletic Media Relations

WKU Administration Documents

Media guide for the 1970 football season.

Ua1f Wku Archives Vertical File - E.A. Diddle, 1964-1970, Wku Archives

WKU Administration Documents

Digitized vertical file materials regarding E.A. Diddle's career between 1964 and 1970.

Ua68/6/1 Zephyrus, Western Kentucky University

Student Creative Writing

The fine arts magazine of Western Kentucky University at Bowling Green.

Ua61/1 Wku Nursing Class 1970, Wku Nursing

WKU Administration Documents

Members of the 1970 nursing class: Joyce Allen, Mary Belcher, Judy Booth, Kathy Bowling, Charleye Bruce, Donna Carroll, Marie Curry, Kathryn Davis, Carol Edwards, Sharon Embrey, Jennifer English, Marilyn Ferguson, Susan Flatt, Ruth Freels, Jane Frost, Sandy Fulkerson, Sharon Graham, Sherry Harper, Teresa Haskins, Donna Hayes, Judith Hayes, Donald Irwin, Bonnie Jackson, Patricia Keltner, Diana Laffoon, Ginger Lally, Anna Lewis, Benita Lynch, Linda Mason, David Morris, Joan Mudgett, Margot O'Brien, Sammy Oldham, Kathy Pike, Pat Pinder, Helen Powell, Mary Priddy, Mary Quinn, Marilyn Reever, Charlotte Reeves, Michael Rush, Pearl Satterfield, Donna Schupp, Annetta Shelton, Toni Thomas, Sandra Thompson, Barbara Wagoner, …

Ua3/9/4 Scrapbook I, Wku President's Office - Downing

WKU Administration Documents

Scrapbook regarding WKU administration, history, faculty, staff and students for period June 1969 through July 1970 compiled by the president's office. Of particular interest are obituaries of E.A. Diddle, Gordon Wilson, Gabrielle Robertson as well as Strike Western and the Vietnam Moratorium.

Ua62/7 Archaeological Survey & Testing Of Section 3, Interstate Highway 24, Kentucky, Jack Schock, James Wyss

WKU Administration Documents

Occasional Papers in Anthropology, No. 1 archaeological survey of I-24 by WKU Sociology & Anthropology

Ua94/6/3 Expatriate, Vol. 1, No. 2, Bruce Tucker

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Underground newspaper commenting on Western Kentucky University administration and current events. Articles include:

• Tucker, Bruce. Caution: The One on Your Right May be a Cop
• Neumayer, Rick. Campus Protest Escalating
• Tucker, Bruce. Washington: Exporting the 'Picnic'
• Wilkerson, Larry. The Writing on the Wall - Graffiti
• Potter, Jackson. Henry Jackson Heads for Last Hurrah
• Neumayer, Rick. Judgment Day - Instructor Evaluations
• Patterson, Tom. Those Magnificent Men . . . - Dee Gibson, John Oldham, Jimmy Feix, Jim Pickens & Ted Hornback
• Harris, Mike. Black Students Unite
• Neumayer, Rick. Student Rights: Void Where Prohibited
• Hundley, Smith. Wants More
• Briney, John. Former Journalist …

Ua94/6/3 Expatriate, Vol. 1, No. 1, Bruce Tucker

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Underground newspaper published by Bruce Tucker. Articles included:

• Neumayer, Rick. The Making of a President - Dero Downing
• Wilkerson, Larry. Campus Station to "Bluhm"?
• Todd, Tom. Do You Mean They Want to Use Models Who are Completely . . . Nekkid?
• Harris, Mike. Worry-Plagued Western Towers Limps Under the Wire
• Harris, Mike. Blacks Move to Form Student Union
• Tucker, Bruce. Blood, Sweat & Tears Concert: The Exodus
• Patterson, Tom. Where Have All the Flowers Gone? - Jerry Walsh, Hector Cordero
• Potter, Jerry. William Solley Resigns as Department Head
• White, Alana. Good-by Old Dry - Veterans Village
• Time to Bury the …

Ua3/3/1 Urban Renewal Commission, Wku President's Office

WKU Administration Documents

Documents housed in Folder 24 of President Kelly Thompson's Subject/Correspondence File regarding the Urban Renewal Commission. Includes correspondence and lists of property purchased.

• Downing, Dero
• Largen, Harry
• Memo to Kelly Thompson from Dero Downing outlining paperwork needed to add properties to the Jonesville Renewal Project with exhibits:
• Exhibit 1: letter from Arch Daniels to Kelly Thompson
• Exhibit 2: letter from Kelly Thompson to Charles Cherches
• Exhibit 3: letter from Charles Cherches to Kelly Thompson
• Exhibit 4: list of WKU purchases along Russellville Road prior to Jonesville Project. List is in lot number order and lists date purchased, grantee, property description …

1970-1972 Catalog, Wku Graduate School

Graduate School

Graduate School catalog regarding admissions, curriculum and policies.

Ua94/6/3 Expatriate - Letter, Bruce Tucker

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Letter from editors of the Expatriate to readers describing their new newspaper.

Industrial Resources: Hickman County - Clinton, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Hickman County

"Industrial Resources: Clinton, Kentucky" prepared by the Kentucky Department of Commerce in cooperation with the Clinton Chamber of Commerce, 1970. The report includes, but is not limited to, information about: population, labor market, local manufacturing, transportation, utilities, fuels, water, sewage,industrial sites, local government and service, taxes, education and health facilities, housing, communication, recreation, natural resources, markets, and climate.