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Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 89, No. 28, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Rogers, Shelby. WKU Facing $1.8 Million Budget Cut
• Rogers, Shelby. Regents Tackle Jeff Brohm Contract & Budget Cuts in Friday Meeting
• Parker, Jacob. Ordinance Allows Purchase of Alcohol on Sunday
• Crumbie, Trey. DSU Renovation Reaches Final Phase, Opening in August – Downing University Center
• Mudd, Aaron. WKU Offers Scholarships at Study Abroad Fair
• Vogt, Darren. Editorial Cartoon Big Red Can’t Reach Higher Education
• Not So Accessible: State Education Should Be Accessible to Potential Students
• Hunton, Ryan. Caring for Our Health Is a Challenge That Connects Us
• Crumbie, Trey. North …

Matthews, Albert Millard, 1931-2017 (Sc 1272), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1272. Post-1996 reminiscences of Albert M. Matthews about growing up in the Hays community of Warren County, Kentucky, in the 1930s and 1940s. He explains his lyrics and a poem written about this period in his life.

Turney, Michael (Lg 92), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 92. Copy of land grant, 3 February 1818, by which Gabriel Slaughter, Lt. Governor and Acting Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Michael Turney, 25 acres in Warren County, Kentucky. Signed by Gabriel Slaughter.

Temple, Benjamin (Lg 66), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 66. Original land grant, 31 March 1813, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Benjamin Temple, assignee of Edward Rumsey, who was assignee of William Matthews, 400 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.

Owen, Colvin Jacob (Sc 1270), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1270. Research project done by WKU student Colvin Owen, Lexington, Kentucky, relating to the restoration needs of a Bowling Green, Kentucky house at 6487 Louisville Road known as “Rose Villa.”

Diddle, John A., 1863-1942 (Sc 1271), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection. General store account book, 1891, kept by John A. Diddle, Gradyville, Adair County, Kentucky. Also loose receipts, 1898-1903 of Diddle and J.J. Hunter, and photos of store, which was also a post office.

Report On My Fall 2013 Sabbatical Leave, Haiwang Yuan

DLPS Faculty Publications

Haiwang Yuan, Professor of Department of Library Public Services of WKU, received his 2012-2013 Research & Creative Activities Program (RCAP) grant from WKU Research Office and a book contract from a U.S. publisher ABC-CLIO to write a book on Tibetan folktales. He then applied for and was awarded the fall 2013 sabbatical leave. With the grant and the leave, he made his research field trip to Tibet and some other Tibetan communities in China. This is the report he has given to his dean and WKU Academic Affairs Office as required. He has now submitted the manuscripts of his book.

Interview Sue Williams Spurlock: Collegiate Oral History Interview, Christy L. Spurlock

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Interview with Sue Williams Spurlock about her college experience at Western Kentucky University in the late 1950s early 1960s.

Hendricks, John (Lg 57), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 57. Original land grant, 28 September 1814, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to the heirs of John Hendricks 400 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.

Perkins, William (Lg 60), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 60. Original land grant, 7 October 1812, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to William Perkins, assignee of Adam Douglass, 50 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.

Mccombs, Jesse (Lg 59), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 59. Original land grant, 11 December 1812, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Jesse McCombs, assignee of Michael Finley, 200 acres in Warren County, Kentucky

Mitchell, Asa T. (Lg 58), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 58. Original land grant, 17 October 1814, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Asa T. Mitchell, assignee of John King, 400 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.

Good, Robert (Lg 56), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 56. Original land grant, 24 December 1814, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Robert Good, assignee of James Ligget, 400 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.

Revivals - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1232), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1232. Instructional letter sent to crusade choir members that planned to participate in Celebration ’97, a Ralph Bell/Billy Graham Crusade in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 (Sc 1231), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1231. Certificate, 28 May 1902, appointing W. Lawrence Hazard to be notary public for the District of Columbia. Signed by President Theodore Roosevelt.

Bowling Green Academy - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1233), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1233. Letters written to Elizabeth Coombs, of the Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University, answering her inquiries about the Bowling Green Academy, a school for African Americans sponsored by the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

French, Heather Renee, B. 1974 (Sc 2804), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2804. Letter of Heather R. French, Miss America 2000, to a Mr. Leeds, expressing concern for his son Danny and responding to his request to send something to the boy. The letter was written after French had completed her term as Miss America.

Hughes, George Henry, 1843-1916 (Sc 1220), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1220. Civil War letters written to his future wife Sarah Catherine Prose by George Henry Hughes, while he was serving with an Ohio infantry regiment. He describes military life and battles, particularly in Tennessee and Alabama.

Roberts, Edwin T., 1920-1998 (Sc 1229), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1229. Legal papers removed from genealogy notebooks compiled by Edwin T. Roberts, including a Mississippi deed, 1867, and documents relating to Richardella Ragland’s estate, partially in Warren County, Kentucky.

Myers, Jacob (Lg 54), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 54. Original land grant, 2 February 1785, by which Patrick Henry, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted to Jacob Myers, 3,000 acres in Jefferson County, Virginia.

Vertrees, John (Lg 53), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 53. Original land grant, 2 December 1785, by which Patrick Henry, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted to John Vertrees, 400 acres in Jefferson County on Cave Creek.

Moody, Guy Chester, 1881-1898 (Sc 1310), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1310. Condolence letter to Guy Moody’s parents and manuscript memorial certificate with photograph of Moody, Logan County, Kentucky. Includes photocopies of carved inscriptions on wooden pointer (or cane) that were done by Guy in 1897, and of other memorials written about Moody.

Crittenden, John Jordan, 1787-1863 (Sc 1302), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and typescript for Manuscripts Small Collection 1302. Letter written by John Jordan Crittenden, U.S. Senate, to Hon. A. Beatty, evidently of Rhode Island, in response to Beatty's concern about the impeding tariff legislation.

Cron, Robert D., B. 1940 (Sc 1309), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1309. Writings by Robert Cron, Roundhill, Kentucky, about the Honaker family and the Warren County, Kentucky community of Naker. Includes a copy of a published article about the family and community, 2001; a Naker postmaster’s certificate, 1936; and photocopy of photograph.

Gerard, John Claude, 1816-1899 (Sc 1305), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1305. Business papers, 1832-1895, of John Claude Gerard, Bowling Green, Kentucky, including a document written in French, 1832; naturalization certificate, 1861; receipts, 1865, 1873; and promissory note, 1895.

Harling, Silas (Lg 55), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 55. Original land grant, 20 September 1786, by which Patrick Henry, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted to Silas Harding, 400 acres in Jefferson County, Virginia.

Wilson, Ivan, 1889-1981 (Sc 1308), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1308. Letters, 26 August and 21 December 1969, written by Ivan Wilson, Bowling Green and Hazel, Kentucky, to the J. Crawford Crowes, Bowling Green, Kentucky, concerning the move of Wilson and his wife to Hazel.

Covington, Wickliffe (Cooper), 1867-1938 (Sc 2803), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2803. Letter to “Daisy,” written by Bowling Green, Kentucky artist Wickliffe (Cooper) Covington, making arrangements for Daisy to fire a chocolate pot, plate and other china.

Bartel, Jean, 1923-2011 (Sc 2802), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2802. Page from an autograph book, inscribed "Best wishes, Jean Bartel, Miss America 1943."

Jackson, Marjorie L., 1919-1998 (Sc 2801), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2801. Letter of Marjorie L. Jackson, serving with the Women’s Army Corps at Bowman Field, Louisville, Kentucky, to her fiance Henry J. Heusinkveld, serving on the U.S.S. Tuscaloosa. She comments on the world political situation, hopes for Japan’s surrender, and expresses her love for him. She also encloses an article about Louisiana marshlands located near her home.