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Ua3/2/4 Confederate Memorial Day, Paul Garrett

WKU Administration Documents

Address given by Paul Garrett in the Bowling Green cemetery on Confederate Memorial Day, 1940

Ua99/9 Southern Exponent Of Business Education, June 1940, Bowling Green Business University

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by the Bowling Green Business University to promote the school. Includes descriptions of courses, lists of students and alumni and photographs.

Ua99/6/2 1940 Towers, None

WKU Administration Documents

1940 Towers yearbook.

Ua12/2/2 1940 Talisman, None

WKU Administration Documents

1940 Talisman yearbook.

• Dedication – Franz Strahm
• In Memoriam – Marion Conner Ford
• Campus Views
• President – Paul Garrett
• Administration / Faculty / Staff
• Classes
• Clubs / Organizations
• Music
• Red & Grey Orchestra
• Roy Holmes Orchestra
• Western Players
• National Youth Administration Resident Project
• Features / Beauty Queens
• Football Season
• Toppers Trounce Ohio U. in Opener – Football
• Western Slides to 2-0 Victory – Football
• Tennessee Polytechnic Institute Tops Terrymen 10-0 – Football
• Memphis Teachers Next to Fall – Football
• Last Quarter Drive Stuns Louisiana Tech – Football
• Middle Tennessee Smothered 26-2 – Football
• Toppers Spoil Bronco’s Homecoming – Football
• East …

Ua99/3 Commencement Program, Bgbu Registrar

WKU Administration Documents

Commencement program listing graduates.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Xvi, No. 15, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Regular features include:

• Alumni Flashes
• Athletics
• Blow Blarney Bluff
• College High Times
• Faculty Notes
• Personals
• Society
• Student Organizations
• Tower Light
• Vox Studentium

This issue contains articles:

• Summer School to Open June10
• Unusual Musical Program Given
• Virginia Helm, Hugh Johnson Pupils Heard
• Over 300 to Be Included in Graduating Classes for 1940
• Two Geography Trips Taken
• W.J. Edens, H.L. Stevens Head Depts.
• Talisman Being Distributed Today
• Third Monthly Recital Presented May 16
• Student Wins National Honor – Polly McClure
• Weldon, Robert. Application for Peace
• Don’t Lose Your Balance
• Last Class …

Meeting, Wku Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Documents

Minutes of WKU Board of Regents meeting. Agenda: approval of executive committee decisions, salary list, death of M.C. Ford, teachers retirement program and Ogden Department of Science.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Xvi, No. 14, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Regular features include:

• Alumni Flashes
• Athletics
• Blow Blarney Bluff
• College High Times
• Faculty Notes
• Personals
• Society
• Student Organizations
• Tower Light
• Vox Studentium

This issue contains articles:

• Western Honors Students’ Mothers Today with Varied Programs
• Modern Choir Sings at Chapel
• New York Tour Leaves June 2 – World’s Fair
• Berea Defeats Western, Eastern
• Stow the Pans! – Cedar House
• Miss Lena Logan Honored
• Remember Those Snakes?
• Speech Contest Coming Soon
• In Memoriam – Joint Club Banquet
• Million-Dollar Brain Storm – Adolf Hitler
• Snapshots
• A Capella Chorus Performs Twice
• Agriculture Alumnus …

Ua94/5/1 The Barons Formal, 1940, Barons Fraternity

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Dance card from the seventh annual dinner dance held by the Barons.

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

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Regular features include:

• Alumni Flashes
• Athletics
• Blow Blarney Bluff
• College High Times
• Faculty Notes
• Personals
• Society
• Student Organizations
• Tower Light
• Vox Studentium

This issue contains articles:

• Six Seniors Included in 1940 College “Who’s Who”
• Life Magazine May Photograph Textile Display – Kentucky Museum
• Peace Syndicate Formed at Kentucky Intercollegiate Press Association
• Music Contest Attracts 3,500
• Governor Appoints New Regents
• Senators to try Constable Searcy, Alleged Murderer – Congress Debating Club
• College Heights Herald Receives Three Awards
• Barbed Wire and Trenches
• We Can’t Live Without ‘Em
• Court Trouble – Tennis …

Executive Committee Meeting, Wku Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Documents

Minutes of executive committee meeting of WKU Board of Regents to approve personnel changes and lease of fairground property.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Xvi, No. 12, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Regular features include:

• Alumni Flashes
• Athletics
• Blow Blarney Bluff
• College High Times
• Faculty Notes
• Personals
• Society
• Student Organizations
• Tower Light
• Vox Studentium

This issue contains articles:

• Pay, Robert. 4,400 High School Seniors Visited Hill Last Friday
• Spring Term Opened Monday, April 1
• Kentucky Education Association to Hear Faculty Members
• Talisman Feature Section Unveiled
• Kentucky Intercollegiate Press Association Meeting Starts Tomorrow
• Music Festival to Begin Tomorrow, Ends Saturday
• Hughes, Harold. Clean-up Spirit Abroad on Hill
• Nineteen Receive Craig Penmanship Certificates
• Winners of Poster Contest Announced
• Snapshots
• Welcome Change
• Carver, Gayle. …

Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 16, No. 2), Kentucky Library Research Collections

The Kentucky Warbler

No abstract provided.

Ua3/2/4 Talisman Foreword, Paul Garrett

WKU Administration Documents

Foreword for the 1940 Talisman by Paul Garrett.

Ua3/2/4 Ford Memorial Service, Paul Garrett

WKU Administration Documents

Eulogy delivered by Paul Garrett in honor of M.C. Ford, agriculture professor at WKU from 1913 through 1940.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Xvi, No. 11, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Regular features include:

• Alumni Flashes
• Athletics
• Blow Blarney Bluff
• College High Times
• Faculty Notes
• Music Morsels
• Payoff with the Pay
• Personals
• Society
• Student Organizations
• Tower Light
• Vox Studentium

This issue contains articles:

• Marion Conner Ford – Dynamic Leader
• Seventeenth High School Senior Day to Be Held April 5
• Motor Accident Takes Life of M. C. Ford; Two Students Hurt
• April 4 Brings Spring Show – Western Players
• Once Upon a Time
• Blame It On Us
• A Good Idea
• Pershing Rifles to Hold Benefit
• Arndt Stickles-T.C.Cherry History Released
• Robertson, Dennis. …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Xvi, No. 10, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Regular features include:

• Alumni Flashes
• Athletics
• Blow Blarney Bluff
• College High Times
• Faculty Notes
• Music Morsels
• Payoff with the Pay
• Personals
• Society
• Student Organizations
• Tower Light
• Vox Studentium

This issue contains articles:

• Hughes, Harold. Art Exhibit Will Run Two Weeks
• E.B. Crabill Appoints ROTC Officers
• SIAA Basketball Crown Stays on Hill for Fourth Straight Time
• Money in Snapshooting
• Strange Skeleton Finally Identified – Saltpeter Cave
• Music Contest to Be Held Here
• Professor Franz Strahm Ill
• Paul Rutledge Places Second in State
• Our Bit
• Weakness from Strength
• Chapel Manners
• We …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Xvi, No. 9, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Regular features include:

• Alumni Flashes
• Athletics
• Blow Blarney Bluff
• College High Times
• Faculty Notes
• Music Morsels
• Payoff with the Pay
• Society
• Student Organizations
• Tower Light
• Vox Studentium

This issue contains articles:

• Honor Roll for Fall Term Released; 10 Make All “A’s”
• John Lewis Delights Students
• Seniors Discuss U. S. Neutrality
• Rachel Lowrey-Mitchell Crabtree
• Dr. Arndt Stickles’ Book to Be Released Tomorrow
• Cherry Country Life Club Meets
• Social Affairs Get Spotlight
• Our Own Fault
• Let’s Try It
• Scarlett O’Hara Passes as Spring(?) Zephyrs Blow
• Baylor, Robert. Desk Set Is Given …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Xvi, No. 8, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Regular features include:

• Alumni Flashes
• Athletics
• Blow Blarney Bluff
• College High Times
• Payoff with the Pay
• Society
• Student Organizations
• Tower Light
• Vox Studentium

This issue contains articles:

• English Teachers to Meet on Hill February 16, 17
• Vanderbilt Takes Three Pre-Meds
• Four ROTC Boys Get Commissions
• Toppers Top Mountaineers
• Second Semester Enrollment Shows Substantial Increase
• Football Field again Being “Hogbacked”
• Talisman Silence Is Ominous
• Recorded Music Library Opened
• Training School Boy Hurt Sledding on Hill – James Brooks
• 63 Get Craig Penmanship Certificates
• A.W. Gottshall, John Lewis Highlight Chapel
• Editor. …

Executive Committee Meeting, Wku Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Documents

Minutes of executive committee meeting of WKU Board of Regents to approve contract with bond syndicate, affidavits regarding the destruction of bonds, lease of fairground property and personnel changes.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Xvi, No. 7, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Regular features include:

• Alumni Flashes
• Athletics
• Blow Blarney Bluff
• College High Times
• Payoff with the Pay
• Society
• Student Organizations
• Tower Light

This issue contains articles:

• National Youth Administration Working on Former Music Hall
• Rifle Range Moved
• College Orchestra Performs Jan. 17
• Western Alumnus Killed in Crash – James Howard
• Summer School Term Cut to Eight Weeks
• Colley, Ed. 183,798 Stamps Licked in 1939
• Christmas Seals Sale Successful
• Silas Bent Speaks Here January 3
• Gory Story Attached to Recently Acquired Mirror – Kentucky Museum
• Fed up
• Resolved
• Borrone, Bert. A …

Ua97/1 Ogden Trustees Meeting Minutes, Ogden College Trustees

WKU Administration Documents

Meeting minutes of the Ogden College trustees regarding the death of regent R.C.P. Thomas, appointment of Cooper Smith as regent and secretary, improvements to 446 Main Street and investments.

1940 Ray Family Papers, Department Of Library Special Collections

Ray Family Papers

No abstract provided.

Ua1c11/29 Franklin Studio Photograph Collection, Franklin Studio, Wku Archives

WKU Administration Documents

Photographs of WKU campus created by Franklin Studios between 1930 and 1940 arranged in numerical order. Images are generally numbered and duplicates are found throughout the WKU Archives Photograph Collections, especially for individual buildings.

Ua45/2 Student Register, Wku Registrar

WKU Administration Documents

Student register for 1940-1941.

Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 16, No. 1), Kentucky Library Research Collections

The Kentucky Warbler

No abstract provided.

Ua99/3 Bgbu Class Of 1940, Bgbu Registrar

WKU Administration Documents

List of 1940 graduates.

Ua12/2/38 In Congress Club, Sam Steger

Student Organizations

Poem written by Sam Steger regarding the Congress Debating Club. The poem borrows heavily from Judge James Hillary Mulligan's In Kentucky which was written in 1902.

Ua1f Wku Archives Vertical File - National Youth Administration, Wku Archives

WKU Administration Documents

Digitized vertical file materials regarding the National Youth Administration program.

Ua11/1 Teachers College Heights Vol. 17, No. 5, Western Kentucky University

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Founders Day Program, Nov. 16, 1939
• Kentucky Building Campaign
• Rodes, John. Conception of College Heights Foundation and the Kentucky Building
• Stickles, Arndt. Significance and Future Service of the Kentucky Building
• Moore, Mary. The Kentucky Library and Museum
• Seward, R.H. The Individual and His Ideal
• Alexander, J.R. Presentation Address
• Garrett, Paul. Speech of Acceptance
• The Building of the Kentucky Building
• The College Heights Foundation
• Plan of the Kentucky Building
• The Pioneer Log Cabin
• The McGregor Fund
• Kentucky Library has Many Rare Books
• The Colonial Garden
• Letters, …