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Ua3/2/1 Prayer For World War Ii, Sindar Gokhale

WKU Administration Documents

Letter from Sindar Gokhale of Poona City, India to the mayor of Bowling Green transmitting 3 copies of a prayer for the return of the 1918 victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. Prayers were to be distributed to the public library, Ogden College and Western Kentucky University.

Ua94/7/2 Mildred Fox Scrapbook, Mildred Fox

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Scrapbook created by Mildred Kerr Fox during her senior year at College High and her freshman year at Western Kentucky University. Includes recital programs, Bowling Green Junior Music Club programs, clippings, photographs, College High reunion materials, ticket stubs, dance cards, party programs and mementos.

Ua45/1/1 Teachers College Heights, Vol. 18, No. I, Wku Registrar

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Course catalog and informational booklet regarding Western Kentucky University.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 17, No. 6, Wku Student Affairs

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

• Alumni Flashes
• Athletics
• Club - Notes
• Engagements – Weddings
• Faculty Notes
• Hilltopics
• Looking Backward
• Society – Personals
• Sports Spotlight

This issue contains articles:

• College Heights Herald Selected as Best College Paper in State
• William Terry Gives 27 Varsity Letters
• Lane, Chester. Largest Audience in History Attends Christmas Oratorio
• Louisville Alumni Banquet Tonight
• Need Seen for Student Chapels
• Backer, Don. Diddlemen Face First Crucial Test Tonight
• Attention – 31-W Open
• Debating Is to Return to Hill
• Sunday Musicals Are Not Planned
• Dougherty, Russ. Kentucky Intercollegiate Press Association …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 17, No. 5, Wku Student Affairs

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

• Alumni Flashes
• Athletics
• Club - Notes
• Engagements – Weddings
• Faculty Notes
• Hilltopics
• Looking Backward
• Society – Personals
• Sports Spotlight

This issue contains articles:

• Westerners Are Selected for “Who’s Who”
• Work to Start on $35,000 Building – National Youth Administration, Western Trade School
• Dougherty, Russ. It’s a Good Thing Western Won, for If Murray Had …
• Jane Larkey, Jean Keith Star in Cantata
• Paul Rutledge Wins State Oratorical
• Toppers Chalk up Initial Win
• Steger, Sam. Toppers and Bowling Green Business University to Get Together in Smell Tonight …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 17, No. 4, Wku Student Affairs

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

• Alumni Flashes
• Athletics
• Club - Notes
• Engagements – Weddings
• Faculty Notes
• Hilltopics
• Looking Backward
• Society – Personals
• Sports Spotlight

This issue contains articles:

• Skeeter Vance Elected Frosh President
• Ivan Wilson Exhibit now on Display
• Searcy, John. Top Toppers Don Moleskins for Last Time Tomorrow
• Joe Venuti Booked for Military Ball
• Capacity House Sees Fall Play – Outward Bound
• Toppers Roll for Murray This Morning
• Western Club of Louisville Plans Rally December 20
• Oratorical Test Set for Monday
• Founder’s Day Is Observed
• Steger, Sam. All-American Picker Selects …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 17, No. 3, Wku Student Affairs

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

• Alumni Flashes
• Athletics
• Blow Blarney Bluff
• Club - Notes
• Engagements – Weddings
• Faculty Notes
• Hilltopics
• Looking Backward
• Society – Personals
• Sports Spotlight

This issue contains articles:

• Rally, Chapel, Dances, Game Tell Homecoming
• ‘Best Sellers’ Attract Students
• Kentucky Building Visitors Number 30,000 for Year
• Ann Lamb Selected – Pershing Rifles
• Frosh Picture Deadline Today
• Toppers Face First State Foe in Morehead
• Western Players’ “Outward Bound” Slated for Friday, November 15
• R.H. Richardson and Thomas Adkins Improved
• College Heights Herald in New Office
• President Fixes Thanksgiving Date
• Amphibians …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 17, No. 2, Wku Student Affairs

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

• Alumni Flashes
• Athletics
• Club - Notes
• Engagements – Weddings
• Faculty Notes
• Hilltopics
• Society – Personals
• Sports Spotlight

This issue contains articles:

• Uncle Sam to Start Drawing at Noon Tuesday – Draft Registration
• 3 Bowling Green Business University Students Die in Wrecks – Johnnie Wiygul, Imogene Sandlin, Thomas Moore
• Ewing, Galloway, Donor of Visual Library, Visits Hill
• Group Plans M.C. Ford Portrait
• Fourteenth Annual Homecoming Scheduled for Next Week-end
• Fall Production May Be “Tops” – Western Players
• Garrett, Paul. A Word from the President
• Attendance at Dad’s …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 17, No. 1, Wku Student Affairs

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

• Alumni Flashes
• Club - Notes
• Engagements – Weddings
• Faculty Notes
• Hilltopics
• Society – Personals
• Sports Spotlight

This issue contains articles:

• Campus to Be Scene of Registration
• Irvin Cobb Donates Five Manuscripts
• Change in Management of College Heights Herald Announced by Officials
• J. Murray Hill
• Graduate Work is Restored to Western
• Reid Sterrett Casts Outward Bound – Theatre & Dance
• Three Added to Faculty – Hugh Gunderson, W.H. Saunders, Gladys Guy
• Nearly 3,000 Register at Kentucky Building
• Enrollment
• College Heights Foundation Names Two New Directors
• The Draft …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 16, No. 16, Wku Student Affairs

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

• Blackboards or Bombs
• Superintendents to Meet Here Next Thursday, Friday
• Student Cooperative Lyceum Series Opens
• 313 Have Average of B or Above; 11 Are Straight A’s
• Ensign John Clagett Bound for Honolulu
• Emmett Betts Conducts Reading Clinic
• Cooley, Ed. Vox Studentium – Civil Aeronautics Authority
• Historian to Appear Here – Harry Barnes
• English Teachers Confer on Hill
• Grapes of Wrath Leads in Popularity at Library
• Western Grads Get Degrees – Vanderbilt University
• The Tower Light – Van Meter Hall
• Gleanings – World War II
• Blow …

Ua12/2/2 1940 Talisman, None

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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 …

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

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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 …

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

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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 …

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

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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 …

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

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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. …

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

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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

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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

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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

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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. …

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

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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 …

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

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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.

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

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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, …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Xvi, No. 6, Wku Student Affairs

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

• Alumni News
• Athletics
• Club Notes
• Personals
• Society
• Tower Light

This issue contains articles:

• Board of Regents Refunds Cherry Hall Bonds at Lower Interest
• Three Students Judge Contest
• Gleanings – Students are Pacifists
• Two Classes Make Trips
• Seal Sales Drive Opens at Chapel – Congress Debating Club
• Herald Joins Peace Group – College Front fro Peace
• More about the ’39ers
• Dates Library to Be Open Are Given
• Gordon Wilson Tours Daviess County Schools
• Facts about ‘Hallelujah Chorus’ Pointed Out
• Classes Have Speeches, Music
• Editorializing – College Front …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Xvi, No. 5, Wku Student Affairs

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

• Alumni News
• Athletics
• Club Notes
• College High Times
• Music Morsels
• Payoff with Pay
• Personals
• Society
• Tower Light

This issue contains articles:

• Faculty Notes – Mathematics, Horace McMurtry, Roy Seward, Latin, Miss Johnson
• 11 Students Are Heard in Voice Recital
• Doing of the ’’39ers
• Frank Bechtel Wins State Peace Oratorical Contest
• Football Banquet Held
• Pre-Murray Pep Preps
• Kentucky Museum Written Up
• Prints Arrive
• Campbell, Virginia. Bands Via for Honors as Western, Murray Clash
• Scientists Remove Name from Walk – Graffiti
• Congress Debating Club Sponsors Sale
• ‘Messiah’ to …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Xvi, No. 4, Wku Student Affairs

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

• Alumni News
• Athletics
• Club Notes
• College High Times
• Music Morsels
• Payoff with Pay
• Personals
• Society
• Tower Light

This issue contains articles:

• Alumnus, Student and Teacher in Bowling Green Players Guild Play
• Robertson, Charley. Pilgrimage
• Snapshots of Western’s History
• College Heights Herald Wins One First, Two Thirds at Press Meeting
• Alumni Hold Meetings in Northern Kentucky
• Fifteen Enter Art Contest
• Congratulations – Ann Denman Born
• Interpreter of Indian Lore Heard – Te Ata Fisher, Mary Thompson
• Barrone, Bert. College Heights Herald Forces History on Reporter
• Robert Cochran …

Ua1a Students Weekly, News Publishing Company

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Weekly newspaper which catered to students at WKU, Bowling Green Business University and College High.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Xvi, No. 3, Wku Student Affairs

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

• Alumni News
• Athletics
• Club Notes
• College High Times
• Music Morsels
• Payoff with Pay
• Personals
• Society
• Tower Light

This issue contains articles:

• Faculty Notes – Arndt Stickles, Ercell Egbert, History, Bert Smith, Gordon Wilson, T.S. Marks, Horace McMurtry, Mary Gear
• Distinguished Persons to Appear Here – American Association of University Women
• Borrone, Bert. Dr. Arndt Stickles’ Book Grew out of Long Interest
• Miss Ellen Jeffries Sponsors Field Study Trip
• International Affairs Are Discussed
• Two Unusual Squirrels Are Discovered – White Squirrels
• Walter Wright Selected Head of High …

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

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

• Alumni News
• Athletics
• Club Notes
• College High Times
• Music Morsels
• Payoff with Pay
• Personals
• Society
• Tower Light

This issue contains articles:

• Muscles Shoals to Be Visited by Students
• Thirteenth Homecoming Outstanding Event
• Members of Talisman Staff Announced for 1939-40
• Baby Rattlers Mourn Death of Mother
• Village Elect Council to Guide Athletes for Coming Year – Cherryton
• Skeletons of Unknown Men Being Examined – Saltpeter Cave
• Daughter of Dr. Henry Cherry Lectures in Louisville – Josephine Lowman
• String Ensemble under Weldon Hart Makes Appearances
• November 9 Is …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Xv, No. 18 [Vol. Xvi, No. 1], Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Alumni News
• Club Notes
• College High Times
• Music Morsels
• Payoff with Pay
• Personals
• Society
• Tower Light

This issue contains articles:

• Homecoming Schedule
• Faculty Notes – Ruth Lemons, Horace McMurtry, Civilian Conservation Corps, Bert Smith, Marvin Baker, M.L. Billings
• Sixty Try out for Dramatic Production
• White, Pollard. Kentucky Building Occupation Progressing
• In the Beginning
• Meeting Held of College Heights Foundation Directors
• Barrone, Bert. Homecoming Significant for Globe Trotting Faculty Members
• Enrollment Larger Than Last Year
• 7 Members Are Added to Faculty
• New Student Physics Instructors Named
• Garrett, …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Xv, No. 18, Wku Student Affairs

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

• Alumni News
• Club Notes
• Music Morsels
• Payoff with Pay
• Personals
• Society
• Tower Light
• Training School

This issue contains articles:

• Prof. Franz Strahm Gives Recital in Chapel
• Eighteen Students Receive Penmanship Certificates
• Howard Robey receives Honor at University of Kentucky
• Haywood Brown Initiated into Phi Delta
• Alumni Association Officers – Carl Cheyney, R.I. Glover
• Western Grad to Practice Surgery in Texas – Buell Lawrence
• Graduate Employed on Tour of West – Houston Gardner
• Music Building Foreman Attended Western – E.R. Baucum
• Harry Spilman Speaks for Manufacturers
• Arndt …