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Myrtle Conyers' Scrapbook 1915-1916, Myrtle Conyers

Scrapbooks

Myrtle Conyers attended Ward-Belmont for two years, 1914-1916.

The Blue And The Bronze, Belmont College For Young Women

Miscellaneous

The Blue and the Bronze literary magazine of Belmont College for Young Women.

Ua94/6/2/14 Domestic Science Notebook, Annie Reis

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Domestic Science notebook kept by student Annie Reis regarding crocheting and embroidery. Includes samples of work created by Reis and patterns for underwear and sleeves.

Belmont School Of Music Prospectus, Belmont College For Young Women

Miscellaneous

No abstract provided.

Letter From George W. Caldwell To Eartha White, George W. Caldwell

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

No abstract provided.

A Book Of Dorcas Dishes: Family Recipes Contributed By The Dorcas Society Of Hollis And Buxton, Kate Douglas Wiggin

To Keep A Home: Advice To Women On The Domestic Arts, 1870-1960 (Multi-Page Items)

Pages 4-9 of A Book of Dorcas Dishes: Family Recipes Contributed by the Dorcas Society of Hollis and Buxton. Inlcudes The Praise and Properties of a Good Wife and part of the Introduction.

Ua3/1/2/1 Correspondence - Eastern Kentucky University, Wku President's Office

WKU Administration Documents

Documents housed in Box 1 Folder 7 of President Henry Cherry’s Correspondence, General File regarding the relationship between WKU and Eastern Kentucky University. This file is comprised entirely of letters, the majority from EKU’s president Ruric Roark.

• Roark, Ruric N. to Henry Cherry 1/25/1907 – congratulations on creation of WKU, questions about curriculum and faculty
• Roark, Ruric N. to Henry Cherry 6/3/1907 – Kentucky Education Association resolution re: diplomas
• Roark, Ruric N. to Henry Cherry 6/7/1907 – appropriations for EKU
• Roark, Ruric N. to Henry Cherry 6/24/1907 – curriculum and faculty
• Roark, Ruric N. to Henry Cherry 7/25/1907 – diplomas …

Ethel Steven's Scrapbook 1910-1911, Ethel Steven

Scrapbooks

Ethel Steven went to Belmont College for Young Women from 1910 to 1911. She received a certificate of second year completion from Belmont College’s School of Music.

Elva M. Rowe Scrapbook, Elva M. Rowe

Scrapbooks

Elva M. Rowe was born in McLean County, Illinois in 1890.  She attended Belmont College for Young Women from 1909-1911. In 1912 she married Roscoe Redmon and they had two children, William and Martha.  Elva died in 1932.

Ua98/1 Green & Gold, Vol. Vii, No. 3, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Administration Documents

Magazine created by and about the students of Potter College. The Green & Gold contains articles, short stories, poetry and news regarding events of the college, students and alumni.

• Toast to Potter
• Redmond, Ethel. A Negro Sermon
• McCurdy, B.O. Never Seem to Be What You Are Not
• Eastland, May. A New “Brer Rabbit & Brer Possum” Story
• The Universal Sovereign
• Postlewaite, Delphia. Pat’s Joke
• Description of the Azores
• Sanders, Norah. Ghosts
• Barr, Corrine. Interpretation of Prometheus Unbound
• Mitchell, Katherine. The Misfortunes of Rastus
• Earth’s Pain
• The Passing of Pleasant Potter College
• Wilford, John. The Passing of Pleasant J. Potter College …

Ua98/1 Green & Gold, Vol. Vii, No. 2, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Administration Documents

Magazine created by and about the students of Potter College. The Green & Gold contains articles, short stories, poetry and news regarding events of the college, students and alumni.

• Baker, Louise. Dear Old Potter ‘Way Up on the Hill
• Givens, Kathryn. Won’t You? Will You? You Are
• Twashtri – A Tale of India
• Bartered Birthrights
• Mitchell, Katherine. Mumps! Mumps! Mumps!
• Rosser, Elma. Fate’s Sister
• Mitchell, Katherine. Luigi Cornaro
• Rats
• A Day in January
• Editorial
• Sigma Iota Chi
• Beta Sigma Omicron
• Eta Upsilon Gamma
• Phi Mu Gamma
• Lewis, Lena. Ossolian Society
• Sleadd, Gertrude. Hypatian Society
• Rosser, Elma. Entertainment
• Keith, Katherine. YWCA …

Ua98 1909 Talisman, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Administration Documents

1909 Talisman yearbook produced by the Potter College for Young Ladies.

• Faculty
• Talisman Staff
• Brief History of Potter College
• Teachers & Officers
• Departments
• Class of 1909
• Senior Class History
• Falter, Elizabeth. Incarnation
• Ballard, Trudie. WIll of Class of 1909
• Junior Class
• Hogin, Inamay. Junior Class History
• Sophomore Class
• Keith, Katherine. Nineteen Hundred & Eleven
• Freshman Class
• Mitchell, Katherine. Freshman Class History
• Specials & Irregulars
• Beta Sigma Omicron
• Sigma Iota Chi
• Eta Upsilon Gamma
• Phi Mu Gamma
• Cabell, Benjamin. Compensation
• Young Women's Christian Association
• Hypatian Literary Society
• Ossolian Society
• Green & Gold Staff
• Tennis Club
• Basketball
• Bowling Club
• Departments
• To the …

Ua98/3 Potter College Graduates, Wku Archives

WKU Administration Documents

List of confirmed Potter College graduates. Information compiled from Potter College records and yearbooks.

Ua98/1 Green & Gold, Vol. Vii, No. 1, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Administration Documents

Magazine created by and about the students of Potter College. The Green & Gold contains articles, short stories, poetry and news regarding events of the college, students and alumni.

• Editorial
• The Girl in Brown
• Keith, Katherine. The Asheville Conference – YWCA
• Falter, Emma. Report of the Delegate to State Convention of YWCA
• YWCA Notes
• The Old Girls Entertain the New
• New Girls Entertain the Old
• Reception for Miss Sinclair
• Givens, Kathryn. Just Like a Girl
• The Girl Who Laughs
• The Mammoth Cave Trip
• Jordan, Katherine. The Boat Trip
• A Petition
• To Potter College
• Thanksgiving Day
• Ossolian Society
• Hypatian Society
• Sigma …

Ua45/1/1 First Life Certificate Graduate, Wku Registrar

WKU Administration Documents

Broadside about Flora Stallard, the first life certificate graduate.

Ua98/1 Green & Gold, Vol. Vi, No. 3, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Administration Documents

Magazine created by and about the students of Potter College. The Green & Gold contains articles, short stories, poetry and news regarding events of the college, students and alumni.

• Editorial
• Camak, Gerster. The State at Present
• Burnside, Blanche. Interpretation of Ancient Mariner
• Falter, Elizabeth. A Nebraska Wooing
• Booth, Blanche. When Greek Meets Greek
• Buchanan, Pauline. Why Uncle Josh Unjined
• What I Would Do If I Were Left Upon My Own Resources – Class of 1911 (PC)
• The Snow Image – Class of 1912 (PC)
• Courage
• YWCA Notes
• Mitchell, Katherine. The Great Stone Face
• Commencement Calendar
• Programmes
• Senior Class Day Program …

Ua98/1 Green & Gold, Vol. Vi, No. 2, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Administration Documents

Magazine created by and about the students of Potter College. The Green & Gold contains articles, short stories, poetry and news regarding events of the college, students and alumni.

• Editorial
• Norse Mythology
• The Origin of the Persian Emblems
• To You
• Amos, Lutie. Character Study in Mother Goose
• Mother Goose
• Keith, Katherine. A Narrow Escape
• A Puzzle Valentine
• Postlewaite, Delphia. The Shattering of an Ideal
• Thanksgiving
• The Bazaar
• Hypatian Society
• YWCA Notes
• Beta Sigma Omicron
• Sigma Iota Chi
• Delta Pi Kappa
• General Recital
• In Memoriam – Martha Poynter
• Personals
• Baby Party
• Juniors Entertain – Class of 1909 (PC)
• Bell, Kathleen. All’s …

Ua98 1908 Potter College Talisman, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Administration Documents

1908 Talisman yearbook produced by the Potter College for Young Ladies.

• Talisman Staff
• Teachers & Officers
• Class of 1908
• Senior Class History
• Class Poem – Class of 1908 (PC)
• Stevens, India. Senior Class Prophecy
• Parting Song
• And Some Fell by the Wayside
• Junior Class – Class of 1909 (PC)
• Buchanan, Pauline. Junior Class History
• Sophomore Class – Class of 1910 (PC)
• Sophomore Class History
• Freshman Class – Class of 1911 (PC)
• Freshman Class History
• Second Academic Class
• Specials & Irregulars
• Delta Pi Kappa Sorority
• Beta Sigma Omicron
• Pan-Hellenic Council
• Kentucky Club
• Girls of the Sunny South
• Girls of the Golden …

Helen Marx's Scrapbook 1908-1911, Helen Marx

Scrapbooks

Helen Marx was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana on May 13, 1894. She attended Belmont College for Young Women from 1908-1911 and received a special degree in English. After school, she returned to Lake Charles and eventually married Richard Joseph Zander on June 18, 1919. The couple moved to Pennsylvania where he worked as a partner in a men’s clothing manufacturing business and Helen was a homemaker. They had four children: Judith, Richard Jr., Julia, and Simone. Richard Zander Sr. died on December 17, 1954, and Helen passed on March 5, 1982.

Ua98/1 Green & Gold, Vol. Vi, No. 1, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Administration Documents

Magazine created by and about the students of Potter College. The Green & Gold contains articles, short stories, poetry and news regarding events of the college, students and alumni.

• Editorial
• Some Phases of Modern Education
• McCurdy, Bess. A Flight of Fancy
• Langley, Ramona. Harry’s Tombstone
• Simms, Edna. Cynewulf’s Elene
• Ikard, Don. The Cave Trip – Mammoth Cave
• Banning, Esther. In School Days
• Gardner, Jessie. Untitled Poem
• Falter, Emma. A Geographical Description of Hell, As Found in Paradise Lost
• Anderson, Gertrude. The World’s Desert
• Gardner, Jessie. The Close of School
• Ossolian Society
• Hypatian Society
• Delta Pi Kappa
• Enochs, Laura. Beta Sigma …

July 23, 1907, Usm Special Collections

Batchelder-Haley Letters

Cora writes to Mrs. Tibbets about her vacation trip from where she was staying in Tokyo to several different places around Japan. She writes of her stay in a Japanese style hotel. She also writes about the scenery around her, and about how long it takes her by rail to get to her travel destinations. She also writes of a traveling companion named George, and how she has invited Abbie to come and visit her and meet George.

Ua98/1 Green & Gold, Vol. V. No. 3, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Administration Documents

Magazine created by and about the students of Potter College. The Green & Gold contains articles, short stories, poetry and news regarding events of the college, students and alumni.

• Pillsbury, Agatha. Art & Life
• Smith, Mary. Mandy’s Wedding
• Stevens, India. Home Sweet Home
• Buchanan, Pauline. The Mammoth Cave Trip
• YWCA Notes
• Ossolian Society
• Hypatian Society
• Delta Pi Kappa
• Mu Phi Psi
• Beta Sigma Omicron
• Serenades
• Irregular Entertainment
• Lost River
• Senior Banquet – Class of 1907 (PC)
• Senior Day
• Flag Rush – From the Junior Point of View
• Jokes
• Mrs. Amy Henschel’s Home-Coming
• Personals
• Exchanges
• Teachers’ Recital
• Thanksgiving Program
• Recital Potter …

April 11, 1907, Usm Special Collections

Batchelder-Haley Letters

In this letter, Cora writes to Mrs. Tibbets about life in Japan. She writes about the climate, and how she finds she cannot do as much due to the "enervating" nature of the climate there. She describes a "sword walking" ceremony, in which one climbs a ladder made of swords. She then writes of the beginnings of spring in Japan and how there is a fair coming to Japan, "the largest ever held in Japan."

Ua98/1 Green & Gold, Vol. V, No. 2, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Administration Documents

Magazine created by and about the students of Potter College. The Green & Gold contains articles, short stories, poetry and news regarding events of the college, students and alumni.

• McKinney, Luna. The Nineteenth Century Modification of the Epic: The Ring & the Book
• Compensation
• Stevens, India. A Pleasant Prescription
• Gay Motes that People the Sunbeams
• Epler, Clara. A Realized Ideal
• Lewis, Lena. January Nineteenth
• Bryan, Helen. A Year in the Philippines
• Patterson, Maggie. Aunt Hannah’s Experience
• Mu Phi Psi
• Sigma Theta Phi
• Beta Sigma Omicron
• Delta Pi Kappa
• New Year Reception
• Presbyterian Reception
• YWCA Notes
• In Memoriam – Alice Moore …

January 18, 1907, Usm Special Collections

Batchelder-Haley Letters

In this letter, Abbie writes to Mrs. Tibbets about the "glorious" scenery where she is staying. She writes of the mountains, streams, tall oak trees, and blossoms as the season changes from winter to spring.

Ua98/2 Grade Book, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Administration Documents

Ledger book arranged alphabetically by student. Indicates year in school, class and examination grades, attendance, deportment and housekeeping of room.

• Amos, Lutie
• Andrews, Kate
• Arnold, Les
• Barr, Corinne
• Blake, Cliftine
• Bolton, Elizabeth
• Bottom, Sarah
• Brite, Frances
• Bryan, Helen
• Buchanan, Clara
• Buchanan, Pauline
• Buckberry, Edith
• Bunker, Lydia
• Camak, Gerster
• Carr, Blanche
• Cherry, Eunice
• Cole, Nellie
• Coover, Janie
• Coover, Kate
• Crosson, Hazel
• Crowe, Lucile
• Dickerson, Clyde
• Dorsey, Josie
• Dulaney, Lena
• Duncan, Elizabeth
• Eastland, May
• Ederington, May Eva
• Epler, Clara
• Falcenor, Mary
• Foster, Willia
• Gaberon(?), Marie
• Gardner, Jessie
• Gatling, Elizabeth
• George, Betty
• Hagan, Alice
• Hagan, Burris
• Hagan, Nell
• Hall, Bertha
• Hancock, Elizabeth
• Hanes, …

Ua98 1907 Potter College Talisman, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Administration Documents

1907 Talisman yearbook produced by Potter College for Young Women.

• Biography – Benjamin Cabell
• Talisman Staff
• Teachers & Officers
• Class of 1907
• History of the Senior Class – Class of 1907 (PC)
• Senior Class Poem
• Junior Class - Class of 1908 (PC)
• Junior Class History
• Sophomore Class – Class of 1909 (PC)
• Sophomore Class History
• Freshman Class – Class of 1910 (PC)
• Freshman Class History
• The Specials
• Irregulars
• Sigma Theta Phi
• Delta Chapter of Mu Phi Psi Sorority
• Delta Pi Kappa Sorority
• Delta Sigma Omicron
• Lectures & Entertainments
• Young Women’s Christian Association
• Ossolian Literary Society
• Hypatian Literary Society
• Athletics – …

Announcement And Prospectus Of Belmont College, Belmont College For Young Women

Miscellaneous

The prospectus describes the classes and offerings for young women at Belmont College.

December 26, 1906, Usm Special Collections

Batchelder-Haley Letters

In this letter, Cora writes to Mrs. Tibbets to thank her for the Christmas gifts. She describes the table that they set for a traditional western-style Christmas. They invited a Japanese couple, who were described by Cora to be very fascinated with the Christmas decor. She also tells Mrs. Tibetts about her coming vacation with George to Oshima, as there is a volcano there that they are intending to climb.

Ua98/1 Green & Gold, Vol. V, No. 1, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Administration Documents

Magazine created by and about the students of Potter College. The Green & Gold contains articles, short stories, poetry and news regarding events of the college, students and alumni.

• Teddy Bears
• Byrd, Nettie. Old Foes with New Faces
• Galceran, Marie. Physics
• Gardner, Jessie. Unfinished Business
• Gorin, Rebecca. The Song of a Bard
• Edrington, May. A Boarding School Tragedy
• Senior Class – Class of 1907 (PC)
• Junior Class – Class of 1908 (PC)
• Sophomore Class – Class of 1909 (PC)
• Freshman Class – Class of 1910 (PC)
• Hypatian Society
• Ossolian Society
• YWCA Notes
• Methodist Reception
• New Girls’ Reception to the Old …