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Covington-Reynolds Family Papers (Mss 677), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 677. Chiefly courtship letters written by Edward Daniel Covington while teaching high school industrial arts classes at St. Petersburg High School in Florida to his girlfriend and future wife, Evelyn Reynolds, Cave City, Kentucky. The 1933 letters mention the financial effects of the Great Depression and the difficulty of paying teachers.

Cherry, Laura B. (Render), 1881-1942 (Sc 3480), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3480. Letter, 8 January 1915, written by Laura B. Cherry, Indianapolis, Indiana, to John Marion Stahl, Jr., Bowling Green, Kentucky, in which she states her desire “to make your life happy and sweet.” It includes a facsimile of a $7 postal money order from Cherry to Stahl. In April 1915, Cherry sent a promissory note for thirty dollars to be drawn on Bowling Green’s American National Bank. She did not sign the note, so also included is a short letter to Stahl from J. Whit Potter, President …

2019 Denominational Survey Results, Calvin University

CRCNA Denominational Survey Results

As part of the denominational ministry plan, Our Journey 2020, the CRCNA has contracted with Calvin College’s Social Research Center to administer a denominational survey every year. The results from the 2019 survey have now been compiled.

All CRC-affiliated adults and older youth are welcome to respond to this survey every year as they are led. In order to ensure a healthy number of responses to the survey every year, however, CRC leaders have randomly assigned every CRC church to one of five “cohorts.” Each cohort includes about 20 percent of all active congregations, and each congregation will be asked …

Little Shop Of Horrors (October 9-12, 2019), Howard Ashman

Student Theatre Programs

Program for Little Shop of Horrors (October 9-12, 2019).

To view the photos from this production of Little Shop of Horrors, please click here.

"Suggestive," "Suspected," Or "Suspicious"?, Kathryn Hale

Word for Word 2019

No abstract provided.

Healing The Encounter Between People And Place In Southern Appalachia, Caroline Merritt

Expressive Therapies Capstone Theses

In southern Appalachia, we fail to make visible the roots. Existing not as a geographical location but as a socially constructed culture and a concentrated source of exploited energy, the region reflects a necessary element of the postcolonial American imagination. For nationally lucrative resources such as coal, oil, lumber, and natural gas to be extracted without consideration or consciousness for the people and the place of its origin, the otherized Appalachian stereotype must prevail. Further crystalizing this false construction, white Appalachian scholars traditionally address current health disparities via the victimization of poor white Appalachia. The capitalist initiative to concentrate power …

Guest Artist Recital Series: Jacqueline Wilson, Bassoon; Yuko Kato, Piano; October 9, 2019, Jacqueline Wilson, Yuko Kato

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
October 9, 2019
Wednesday Evening
7:30 p.m.

Horn Campaign For Kettering City Council Leaflet

Charles F. Horn Selected Materials

A political campaign brochure urging Kettering, Ohio voters to elect Charles Horn to the Kettering city council. Horn was elected to the council in 1963, and he remained a councilman until he became Kettering mayor in 1969. Circa 1962-1967.

"Camp For Kids Who Can't" History, Charles F. Horn

Charles F. Horn Selected Materials

A history of the "Camp for Kids Who Can't," program established by Charles Horn. This program raised money for marginalized children in the greater Miami Valley area to attend summer camp. Circa 1969-1980

Horn Mayoral Re-Election Campaign Brochure

Charles F. Horn Selected Materials

A political brochure for Charles Horn's re-election campaign for mayor of Kettering, Ohio. Horn served as mayor of Kettering from 1969-1980. Circa 1969-1980.

Horn Campaign For County Commissioner Brochure

Charles F. Horn Selected Materials

A political brochure for Charles Horn's campaign for a seat on the Montgomery County Commission. Horn served as a commissioner for Montgomery County from 1980-1984. Circa 1979-1980.

"Thank You, Senator Horn" Campaign Document

Charles F. Horn Selected Materials

A political brochure describing Charles Horn's various achievements during his term as an Ohio senator. From 1985 to 2000, Horn served in the Ohio Senate, representing the sixth district, which encompasses most of Montgomery County, including Dayton. Circa 1984-1999.

Dayton Regional Issues Notes, Charles F. Horn

Charles F. Horn Selected Materials

Notes from Charles Horn detailing future plans to improve the Dayton, Ohio region. Throughout his political career, Horn was involved in many initiatives that aimed to boost Dayton's economy. Circa 1984-2000

Instructions For Planting Marigolds, Kettering Garden City Beautification Committee

Charles F. Horn Selected Materials

Instructions explaining how to properly plant marigolds for city of Kettering, Ohio residents. These instructions were created and distributed by the Kettering Garden City Beautification Committee, a group created and led by mayor, Charles Horn.

Does Spotify Really Hurt Artists?, Daniel Witt

Marriott Student Review

For years, members of the music industry have debated whether music streaming services like Spotify help or hurt artists. This article explores the pros and cons of music streaming and argues that overall, Spotify and services like it are helping artists to achieve their career goals.

Strive To Survive: The Redbox Example, Jake N. Conlin

Marriott Student Review

As technology continues to progress, companies can either adapt with technology or die. Advancements in technology should be used to better satisfy consumers. Companies that refuse to update their technology will not be able to survive in the future. Each company must make the most of its current technology, utilize new technology, and notify its customers of changes in its use of technology. Redbox finds itself at the crossroads of adapting or dying. Redbox can apply these three steps by milking its existing disc rental market, making the move to streaming, and marketing the new streaming service to consumers.

Vocal Pedagogy Mus 445, Jim Kinnie

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.

Prosperity Club (Sc 3479), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3479. “Prosperity Club” chain letter with a list of six addressees in Tennessee and Oklahoma and instructions to the recipient to send ten cents to the person at the top of the list, replace the name with his or hers at the bottom, and send copies of the letter to five friends. The letter promises eventual receipt of $1,562.50.

Swiss-American Missionaries For The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints In The Nineteenth Century, Cindy Brightenburg

Swiss American Historical Society Review

In the fa ll of 1888, Gottfried Buehler left his home, wife and small children in Utah for a two-year return to Switzerland. He had been ass igned by his church to serve a miss ion in the land of his birth with the goal to preach the tenets of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as the Mormon church, and hereafter referred to as "the church") to the people of Switzerland, baptize them into membership , and encourage them to emigrate to the land of Zion, or the Utah Territory. From the mid- to late-nineteenth …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 95, No. 7, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Deppen, Laurel. Another Video with Racial Slur Emerges – Chi Omega
• Bertucci, Leo. Students React to New Bus Routes
• Dobbs, Jack. Student Government Association Members Plan Protest Against Alpha Xi Delta
• Lamb, Cassidy. Kelly Thompson Hall Renovations Provide New Learning Opportunities
• Chisenhall, Jeremy. Why We Cover Racial Slur Usage on Campus
• Stack, Madelyn. Editorial Cartoon re: Racial Slurs
• Intolerable – Racial Slurs
• Heath, Esther. Heavy Metal – Blacksmiths, Hammer-In
• Holland, Kelley. Prideful Protest – Fairness Ordinance
• Metcalf, Taylor. Abundance of Abes Highlights Small-town Festival – …

Tuesday Morning Recital, October 8th, Arkansas State University Department Of Music

Performance Programs

No abstract provided.

Parker, Elizabeth (Elwell), 1809-1848 (Sc 3478), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3478. Letter, 18 August 1837, to Samuel Elwell and his wife in care of Henry Elwell, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from Samuel’s sister E. E. Parker, Louisville, Kentucky. She expresses hope for the education and success of Samuel’s newborn son and advises that she and her husband are doing well at “the best business place on the river.” She notes amenities in Louisville such as “large handsome stores,” an abundance of berries and other foodstuffs, steam and flatboats on the river, and good blacksmithing, despite a shortage of …

Fundamentalism Turns 100, A Landmark For The Christian Right, William Vance Trollinger

History Faculty Publications

These days, the term “fundamentalism” is often associated with a militant form of Islam.

But the original fundamentalist movement was actually Christian. And it was born in the United States a century ago this year.

Protestant fundamentalism is still very much alive. And, as Susan Trollinger and I discuss in our 2016 book, it has fueled today’s culture war over gender, sexual orientation, science and American religious identity.

On The Reactionary Treatment Of American Radicals By J. Edgar Hoover's Fbi, Sonia Potter

Student Projects from the Archives

African Americans, who had been systematically oppressed from the very beginning of their time in the United States, were calling more and more loudly for freedom and equality in the mid-twentieth century. Compounded with the fear and hatred of communism was also a fear of black Americans ascending to the same societal plane as white Americans, especially among individuals and groups of people who held racist views and had reservations about equality between blacks and whites.

One of the groups of people who seemed to have reservations about such a concept was the United States’ own Federal Bureau of Investigation …

Tuberculosis Patient Number 296 In The Daniel Harris Papers, Margaret Stehura, Cristopher Shell, Zachary Piette

Student Projects from the Archives

This essay examines Susan Sontag's _Illness as Metaphor_ alongside Daniel Harris's studies of those admitted for tuberculosis care at the Saranac Lake Sanitarium. While both Sontag’s perceptions and Patient 296’s tubercular reality may not be 100% aligned with one another (i.e., lived experience of someone with tuberculosis versus historical perceptions of the disease itself), by combining both aspects we are able to develop a fairly crystalline image of what it was like to actually have tuberculosis at this point in time. In doing so, it becomes clear that while some perceptions of tuberculosis may have been fairly misguided, it was …

“Failure Of Will”?: Tb Patient Narratives And Susan Sontag’S Illness As Metaphor, Bryon Dickon, Ashley Gonzalez

Student Projects from the Archives

Susan Sontag outlines in Illness as Metaphor the romantic narratives of what she called a “tubercular personality.” Sontag writes the following in doing so, describing one key aspect of romantic tuberculosis: “TB was understood, like insanity, to a kind of one-sidedness; a failure of will or an overintensity…the tubercular was considered to be someone quintessentially vulnerable, and full of self-destructive whims” (63-64). “A failure of will” and “quintessential vulnerability” form a set of characteristics through which a narrative of the “tubercular personality” is constructed. The tubercular narrative Sontag describes is based on a wide variety of stereotypes. This creates a …

“Ships, Vol. 2” Beyond Transport, Combat And Tourism: A Study Into Ships On Postcards, Janos Jalics

Student Projects from the Archives

Over several millennia, ships have been displayed in all sorts of media ranging from commercials to diaries and newspapers. When the postcard was invented in 1869, various ships began appearing on them. Postcards with ships became far more than a way to message. They became advertisements, showcases of paintings, and repositories of information. Postcards gave ships a new purpose and unique audiences in the name of advertisement, art, and knowledge, as this essay will show by examining “Ships, Vol. 2”of the David P. Campbell Postcard Collection at The University of Akron.

Replicating Nontraditional Postcards From The Archive, Cristopher Shell

Student Projects from the Archives

The purpose of this project is to digitize and replicate nontraditional postcards from the David P. Campbell Postcard Collection from Drs. Nicholas and Dorothy Cummings Center for the History of Psychology.I set out to find the easiest way to replicate a few postcards that are nontraditional in one way or another. The method I came to involves using a Cricut Printer and the Cricut Design Space to scan and upload the complex shapes. The result was that I could very easily replicate any of the three chosen postcards with little to no trouble. I concluded that, even though Cricut Printers …

Postcards And Psychograms: The Science Of Handwriting Analysis, Aubrey Baldwin

Student Projects from the Archives

One psychogram, or means of testing personality, is handwriting analysis or graphology. Handwriting analysis can be used to look at personality traits or it can be used to determine emotions that a person is feeling when they are writing things like a postcard or a letter. This essay will look at the history of handwriting analysis and then will analyze four postcards from the 1920’s using Paul D. Hugon's handwriting analysis test.

Thanks to the Drs. Nicholas and Dorothy Cumming Center for the History of Psychology, Hugon's Psychograms test has been saved and it will be used to do the …

“Here Is Where Al Capone And A Few Others Are Spending Their Vacations?” : Tracing How Alcatraz Was Portrayed In Postcards, 1924-1971, Franchesica Kidd

Student Projects from the Archives

Between the 1920s and the 1970s and as Alcatraz was decommissioned as a federal prison and bloomed into a booming tourist industry, the Rock saw a change in the way that the postcard industry portrayed it via photos on the back of postcards. As time went on, Alcatraz was depicted more as a tourist hotspot than a warning place to stay out of. Photo postcards of Alcatraz shifted from black and white photos and printed photos toward lively colored photos that had the message “Wish You Were Here!” printed on them, suggesting a cultural shift in attitude toward this notorious …