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Gemini 75 Memories, Bobbi Clark

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Bobbi (Battle) Clark's answers to questionnaire regarding WKU's Gemini jazz bands. See Gemini Jazz Bands online exhibit for more information.

Carter, Tim Lee, 1910-1987 - Relating To (Sc 2931), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2931. Materials relating to Tim Lee Carter, a Tompkinsville, Kentucky physician and member of the U.S. Congress from 1965-1981. Includes clippings, biographical data, correspondence relating to medical malpractice legislation, and programs, memoranda and publicity relating to the opening of the Carter Congressional Collection at Western Kentucky University. Also includes a pencil sketch of Carter.

Ua68/8 History Alumni Newsletter, Wku History

WKU Archives Records

WKU History Department alumni newsletter reporting activities of the department, faculty, staff and students.

Downing, Joseph Dudley, 1925-2007 (Sc 2917), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2917. Letters of artist Joseph Dudley Downing to Riley Handy, Kentucky Museum, WKU, regarding an exhibition of his work that opened at the museum on 28 March 1993. Downing discusses the content of the exhibition, associated printed matter and the return of unsold items, and provides background on the works “Isidore’s Door,” “Michael’s Door,” “The Window of Arthemise Fougerousse” and “The Chicken Bones.” Includes an unidentifed commentary on some of his paintings, and a list of 11 works to be exhibited.

Phelps, Edwin Dolphus, 1948-2015 (Sc 2916), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2916. “My Friend—Mr. Diddle,” a reminiscence by Edwin D. Phelps of WKU basketball coach E. A. Diddle. Includes an autobiographical sketch by Phelps.

Hochstrasser, Maud Adelaide, 1900-1994 (Mss 555), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 555. Correspondence, clippings, photographs and other papers of WKU English instructor “Addie” Hochstrasser, relating almost exclusively to her friendship with and interest in author Jesse Stuart. Includes letters, cards and a holographic poem by Stuart, as well as photographs of Stuart and his home in Greenup, Kentucky.

Stuart, Jesse Hilton, 1907-1984 (Sc 2910), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2910. Correspondence of author Jesse Stuart and Western Kentucky University administrators and librarians, mostly regarding speaking engagements on campus and the acquisition of his books for the University’s collection. Includes some Stuart family Christmas cards, data regarding foreign language reprints of his books, and Stuart’s letter to WKU President Paul Garrett describing his farm work in the wake of the World War II manpower shortage.

Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 535), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 535. Administrative papers, agendas and minutes for board meetings, correspondence, and planning documents for SKYPAC, an agency of Warren County, Kentucky government responsible for building (completed in 2012) and now managing a large arts facility built in downtown Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Ua68/18/1 Potter College Of Arts & Letters Gender & Women's Studies Events, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Events sponsored by Gender & Women's Studies.

Introduction To Innovative Approaches To Teaching Chaucer, Alison (Ganze) Langdon, David Sprunger

English Faculty Publications

Many a medievalist has been seduced by Chaucer. Perhaps it’s the totality of Chaucer’s enduring characters, memorable tales, elusive narrator, and fragmented whole that keeps us coming back. We are fascinated and delighted, too, by his linguistic play and the lyrical cadence of Middle English. Chaucer may have led us to graduate study in the first place and remains a treat that organizes our pedagogical lives. For some who teach in smaller programs or two-year colleges, Chaucer’s canonical status may provide the only guaranteed place for medieval texts in the curriculum and thus represents one small chance to share our …

Ua68/18/2 Potter College Of Arts & Letters Gender & Women's Studies Awards, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Awards and certificates presented to the Women's Studies & Support Program.

Copper Box, Wku Cherry Statue Committee

2015: Cherry Statue Time Capsule

Photo of the copper box used to store duplicate items in the Kentucky Museum. The box measures 15 1/4 inches in length, 10 inches in width and is 4 3/4 inches high.

The Disappearing Mestizo, Book Review, Andrew Rosa

History Faculty Publications

The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Grenada. Joanne Rappaport. Duke University Press, 2014, 368 pp., $25.99, paper. By probing “when and how” an individual was considered a mestizo (a person of mixed heritage) in the early colonial New Kingdom of Grenada (modern-day Columbia), Joanne Rappaport’s Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada (Duke University Press, 2014) adds to the growing scholarship on racial difference in colonial Spanish America.

Ua68/18/3 Potter College Of Arts & Letters Gender & Women's Studies Administration, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about the administration of Gender & Women's Studies.

Ua3/4/7 President's Office-Downing Personal Papers, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Personal papers of Dero Downing.

Ua12/2/62 Delta Sigma Theta, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about Delta Sigma Theta sorority.

Ua19/16/1 2015-16 Wku Track & Field Cross Country Record Book, Wku Athletic Media Relations

WKU Archives Records

WKU track and field media guide for 2015-16 season.

Ua1f Wku Archives Vertical File - Gary Ransdell, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Records

Digitized vertical file materials regarding WKU President Gary Ransdell and his tenure as president.

Ua94/6/14 Student / Alumni Personal Papers Wku Herbert Cary, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by Herbert Cary regarding the history of the Agriculture Department. These research materials resulted in the publication of Cary's book, Road to Excellence: Agriculture at Western Kentucky University, 1998.

Ua3/5/3 President's Office-Minton Publications, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Publications created by and about the president's office during John Minton's administration.

Ua3/2/1 President's Office-Garrett Correspondence/Subject File, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

General correspondence and subject files regarding Western Kentucky University.

Ua37/37 Faculty Personal Papers Arndt Stickles, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Personal papers of Arndt Stickles, WKU History professor from 1908-1954. The collection includes articles, speeches, lecture notes and correspondence.

Ua12/2/2 2015 Talisman: Resurgence, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

2015 Talisman yearbook.

• Osborne Sam. Into the Woods – Big To-Do Music & Arts Festival
• Spalding, Shelley. The Outliers – Greeks
• Badjie, Haddy. The Right to Live – Racism
• Gibson, Helen. Net Worth – Soccer
• Greer, John. Sustaining Seasons – Sustainability
• Wegert, Sally. Bloom – Eva Ross
• Cislo, Everett. Harvest – Hemp
• Kolb, William. Preserve – John All
• Voorhees, Jessica. Making Strides – Track & Field
• Greer, John. The Science Guy – Bill Nye
• Cole, Tanner. Lip Service – Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Belknap, Abby. Race to the Senate
• Gibson, Helen. Game of Loans – Student Financial Aid
• Belknap, Abby. …

Copper Box, Wku Cherry Statue Committee

2015: Cherry Statue Time Capsule

Copper box and some of the duplicate items stored in it. These artifacts are housed in the Kentucky Museum.

Copper Box, Wku Cherry Statue Committee

2015: Cherry Statue Time Capsule

Copper box and some of the items stored in it, duplicates of items in the time capsule in the base of the Cherry Statue. These items and box are stored in the Kentucky Museum.