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Ua94/6/4 Wku Veterans - L Surnames, Elizabeth Coombs

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Information cards, clippings of service reports, marriages, births and some photographs for WKU veterans.

Ua94/6/4 Wku Veterans - H Surnames, Elizabeth Coombs

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Information cards, clippings of service reports, marriages, births and some photographs for WKU veterans.

Ua94/6/4 Wku Veterans - D Surnames, Elizabeth Coombs

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Information cards, clippings of service reports, marriages, births and some photographs for WKU veterans.

Ua94/6/4 Wku Veterans - E Surnames, Elizabeth Coombs

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Information cards, clippings of service reports, marriages, births and some photographs for WKU veterans.

Ua94/6/4 Wku Veterans - Q-R Surnames, Elizabeth Coombs

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Information cards, clippings of service reports, marriages, births and some photographs for WKU veterans.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 21, No. 5, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Hilltopics
• Looking Backward
• The Chapel Hour
• Weddings – Engagements
• Society - Personals
• Sharps & Flats
• Daily Doings
• The Service Column
• Spikes, Cleats & Sneakers
• Faculty Notes
• Here and There
• Quotable Quotes
• Library Notes

This issue contains articles:

• Christmas Seals Now on Sale
• Ten Seniors to be Graduated
• Rev. Monroe Schuster Addresses Western Students
• Rifle Team to be Organized
• Ward Sumpter is Chairman
• Lieut. Joseph Taylor Returns From Overseas
• College Chorus to Give Christmas Program
• Large Audience Hears Mary Van Kirk
• Students Say “Yes” for 1945 Talisman …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 21, No. 4, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Hilltopics
• Looking Backward
• The Chapel Hour
• Weddings – Engagements
• Society - Personals
• Sharps & Flats
• Daily Doings
• The Service Column
• Spikes, Cleats & Sneakers
• Faculty Notes
• Here and There
• Quotable Quotes
• Library Notes

This issue contains articles:

• Ivan Wilson to Exhibit Work at Nelson Institute
• Students Enrolled for Graduate Work
• Mary Van Kirk, Contralto, to Present Concert
• Robert Fries Gives Recital
• Elizabeth Coombs Compiles Church History
• Staff Selection is Completed
• Nelle Travelstead Named Temporary Chairman
• E.B. Crabill Directs German Surrender
• Student’s Poetry Accepted by National Poetry …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 21, No. 3, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Hilltopics
• Looking Backward
• The Chapel Hour
• Weddings – Engagements
• Personals
• Sharps & Flats
• Daily Doings
• The Service Column
• Spikes, Cleats & Sneakers
• Faculty Notes
• Here and There
• Quotable Quotes
• Library Notes

This issue contains articles:

• Twelve Seniors Elected for “Who’s Who”
• Rebecca Hughes, Mary Hendrick Names Co-Editors
• Program Planned for Founder’s Day
• Capt. William Mazlack Dies
• Cheer Leaders Named at Rally
• Miss Sibyl Stonecipher is Honored
• December Graduate Enlists in WAVES – Mary Magan
• C.P. Denman Improving
• Capt. Preston T. Payne Killed in Action
• H.B. Gray …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 21, No. 2, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Hilltopics
• Looking Backward
• The Chapel Hour
• Weddings – Engagements
• Personals
• Sharps & Flats
• Daily Doings
• The Service Column
• Spikes, Cleats & Sneakers
• Faculty Notes
• Here and There
• Quotable Quotes
• Library Notes

This issue contains articles:

• Class Officers for Year Elected
• Militia Leads Army Life
• Margaret Smith Speaks to Western Girls
• Representatives for “Who’s Who” Selected
• Officers Chosen for Third District Education Association
• Girls Chapel is Success
• North Kentucky Alumni Meet
• National Poetry Association Sponsors Poetry Contest
• Diennes, Joan. It’s Corporal Arthur Anderson Now, With New Ambitions …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 21, No. 1, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Hilltopics
• Looking Backward
• The Chapel Hour
• Weddings – Engagements
• Personals
• Sharps & Flats
• Daily Doings
• The Service Column
• Spikes, Cleats & Sneakers
• Faculty Notes
• Here and There
• Quotable Quotes
• Library Notes

This issue contains articles:

• Third District Education Association Meets on Campus Today
• Training Under G.I. Bill to Begin at Western
• Thomas Hines is Named Treasurer; Faculty Changes
• General Increase in Enrollment
• Western Aids in State Program
• Sanatoria Site Commission Visits Western; Governor Simeon Willis Speaks
• Britt, Juanita. Plans Made for Series of Community Concerts
• R.O.T.C. …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 20, No. 16, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Hilltopics
• Looking Backward
• The Chapel Hour
• Weddings – Engagements
• Personals
• Music Notes
• Daily Doings
• The Service Column
• Spikes, Cleats & Sneakers
• Faculty Notes
• Here and There
• Quotable Quotes

This issue contains articles:

• Training School Seniors to Hear W.L. Matthews
• Alva Matherly, Marjorie Rickman, Marion Miller are Named as 1994-45 College Heights Herald Staff Heads
• Rev. W.B. Myll to Speak at Baccalaureate
• Former Student Plans Lounge for Air Force – Robert Mustard
• Rural School Sponsors First Homecoming
• Bennewitz, Joe. Poet Laureate Pictures Kentucky, “Vacation Stop”
• Former Students …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 20, No. 15, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Hilltopics
• Looking Backward
• The Chapel Hour
• Alumni Flashes
• Weddings – Engagements
• Personals
• Music Notes
• Daily Doings
• The Service Column
• Spikes, Cleats & Sneakers
• Faculty Notes
• Here and There
• Quotable Quotes

This issue contains articles:

• Mark Ethridge, Dr. S.S. Hill to Speak to Seniors
• 15 Schools Represented at Music Festival
• Senior Propose New Plan Class Memorial
• College Chorus Presents Program
• Classes Hold Their Regular Meetings
• ‘Every Since Eve’ to be Presented Next Friday
• “Uncle Harry” to be Presented by Western College Players Tonight
• Lieut. Charles Holbrook Recuperating …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 20, No. 14, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Hilltopics
• Looking Backward
• The Chapel Hour
• Alumni Flashes
• Weddings – Engagements
• Personals
• Music Notes
• Daily Doings
• The Service Column
• Spikes, Cleats & Sneakers
• Faculty Notes
• Here and There
• Quotable Quotes

This issue contains articles:

• Annual Speech Contests to be Held May 24 – Robinson, Ogden Contest
• Air Medal, Distinguished Flying Cross. Given Sgt. Reid Renick
• Wood Sculpture of John Rood on Display
• Training School Seniors Present “Ever Since Eve”
• Miss Helen Gwin Returns
• Seniors to March
• Sterret Cuthbertson – Public Relations Office
• Western Grad to be …

James Lapp

World War II Casualties

James Edwin Lapp, Jr. was from Kearney. He was a PFC in the Army Air Corps, 831st Bomber Squadron, 485th Bomber Group. He died when his transport ship, the SS Paul Hamilton, was sunk by German bombers on April 20, 1944.

Lapp is a Purple Heart recipient.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 20, No. 13, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Hilltopics
• Looking Backward
• The Chapel Hour
• Alumni Flashes
• Weddings – Engagements
• Personals
• Music Notes
• Daily Doings
• The Service Column
• Spikes, Cleats & Sneakers
• Faculty Notes
• Here and There
• Quotable Quotes

This issue contains articles:

• Registrar E.H. Canon Announces Honor Roll
• Talisman to be Ready by May 20
• After Long Illness Mrs. Franz Strahm Regaining Health
• ‘Uncle Harry’ to be Presented by Western Players
• Western Grad is With Red Cross in Australia – Hallie Baumberger
• Kentucky Education Assocation Convention to be April 13-14 in Lexington
• Uncle Billy …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 20, No. 12, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Hilltopics
• Looking Backward
• The Chapel Hour
• Alumni Flashes
• Weddings – Engagements
• Personals
• Music Notes
• Daily Doings
• The Service Column
• Spikes, Cleats & Sneakers
• Faculty Notes
• Here and There

This issue contains articles:

• Nila Magidoff of Russia to Speak at Chapel
• Book Drive of World Student Service Fund Continues
• Gwen Billings, Bob Holdsworth Do Graduate Work
• April Fool’s Day to be Theme of Senior Dinner
• Deacon Jones Named on Memorial Team
• College Chorus Presents Program
• Dorothy Lester Leaves for Nurses Training
• Chemistry Physics Club Has Spaghetti Supper …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 20, No. 11, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Hilltopics
• Looking Backward
• The Chapel Hour
• Alumni Flashes
• Weddings – Engagements
• Personals
• Music Notes
• Daily Doings
• The Service Column
• Spikes, Cleats & Sneakers
• Faculty Notes
• Here and There

This issue contains articles:

• Financial Success of Talisman Now Assured
• Western Grad to be Instructor at Vassar College – Doris Hutchinson
• Soldier of the Week Announced Regularly – Douglas Clarke
• William Bassett Killed in Crash
• Buildings on Campus Receive Coat of Point
• Gwen Billings and Bebe Binzel Crowned Queens
• It’s Patriotic to Make-over Clothes
• Dr. H.A. Morgan is …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 20, No. 10, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Hilltopics
• Looking Backward
• The Chapel Hour
• Alumni Flashes
• Weddings – Engagements
• Personals
• Music Notes
• Daily Doings
• The Service Column
• Spikes, Cleats & Sneakers
• Faculty Notes
• Here and There

This issue contains articles:

• Mr. T.C. Cannon Resigns After Serving 23 Years at Russellville
• Edwin Flood Killed in Action
• Feature Section to be Announced at Talisman Ball on March 4
• President Paul Garrett, Dean Finley Grise Attend Annual Meeting
• Mr, G.T. Carmichael to Direct Survey
• Plans Made for Memorial Chapel – J.R. Alexander
• “In Gay Havana Given Last …

Caswell, Samuel Lee, 1907-1991 (Sc 2503), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2503. V-mail letter from S. Lee Caswell, serving in Italy during World War II, to Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Jones, Upton, Kentucky, in which he inquires about his family.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 20, No. 9, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Hilltopics
• Looking Backward
• The Chapel Hour
• Alumni Flashes
• Weddings – Engagements
• Personals
• Music Notes
• Daily Doings
• The Service Column
• Spikes, Cleats & Sneakers
• Faculty Notes
• Here and There

This issue contains articles:

• WAC Elizabeth Strayhorn is Second Wac to be Lieutenant Colonel
• State Superintendent Scores Hit With Schoolmasters Club Address – John Williams
• Noted Hindu Editor to Speak at Chapel Hour – Pasupuleti Kirshnayya
• Distinguished Flying Cross Presented to Father of Sgt. Joseph Panepinto
• Former Student Killed in Action – Buford Lynch
• Mrs. M.C. Ford Made …

Ua64/25/5/3 Open Post, Vol. 1, No. 15, 321st Detachment

Student Organizations

Newsletter created by the cadets of the 321st AAFCTD stationed at WKU. This issue includes:

• Canine Jezebel is Queen of Hill in Her Own Right
• Miss Geraldine Smith is Queen of Hill by Popular Choice of 321st Votes
• State Procedure Modified to Aid Soldier Vote
• Talisman to Feature New Military Motif
• Lt. Hubert D. Osteen Joins 321st Staff
• Solider of the Week
• Just a Reminder
• Interview with Lt. Allan E. Hadley Gives Vital Statistics of Adjutant
• Life in a Dorm Described by Popular Coed
• Douglass, George. At Ease, Rest, Peel Off
• No Sales Talk
• The People of Bowling Green
• Have …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 20, No. 9, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Hilltopics
• Looking Backward
• The Chapel Hour
• Alumni Flashes
• Weddings – Engagements
• Personals
• Music Notes
• Daily Doings
• The Service Column
• Spikes, Cleats & Sneakers

This issue contains articles:

• Turkey Releases Charles Holbrook From Internment
• State Superintendent John Williams to Address Schoolmasters Club Here
• Ensign Frank Dowlen Former Student Missing at Sea
• President Paul Garrett Called to Washington for American Legion Conference
• Son of Former Western Student Perishes as Fire Destroys Home – Donald Pardue
• Major Elizabeth Strayhorn Appointed Assistant Commandant of Fort Oglethorpe Center
• Lieut. Thomas Blackwell …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 20, No. 7, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Hilltopics
• Campus Chips of the Cadet Corps
• Looking Backward
• Society – Personals
• Faculty Notes
• Music Morsels
• Service Column
• Weddings - Engagements
• Spikes, Cleats & Sneakers
• Daily Doings
• On Our Western Front
• At the Capitol
• Alumni Flashes

This issue contains articles:

• Former Student Safe After Jap Internment - Ray Teborek
• Henry, Helen. “The Fort” is Unequaled as to Historical Interest
• Don’t Make Resolutions and Then Not Stick to Them
• Sixteen Seniors Receive Degrees
• Alva Matherly, Helen Henry Made Managers – College Heights Herald
• Toppers Face Tough Schedule …

Ua64/25/5/3 Open Post, Vol. 1, No. 14, 321st Detachment

Student Organizations

Newsletter created by the cadets of the 321st AAFCTD stationed at WKU. This issue includes:

• No Shipments to Nashville as Rumors Fly
• Queen of Hill to be Chosen Thursday as Open Post Contest Ends
• New Staff Headed by W.J. Tichachek
• P & M Club News
• ASTP Leaves for OCS
• Sergeant Baker Leaves 321st to Begin Flight Training at Jefferson Barracks
• Lt. Collins Leaves for Maxwell Field
• C.O. Presents Air Medal
• Interview with Lt. George S. Updegraff Tells Personal History of Liked and Respected C.O.
• Pass in Review
• Browsing Through an Old Copy
• Quite a Bombshell
• In the Mail
• Do You …

Ua64/25/5/3 Open Post, Vol. 1, No. 13, 321st Detachment

Student Organizations

Newsletter created by the cadets of the 321st AAFCTD stationed at WKU. This issue includes:

• Moving Day Sees Laughter, Tears, Busy Chaplains
• Open Post Seeks Queen of Hill in Contest This Week
• 321st Graduate Selected as Outstanding, Danford Josey
• New Year Reverie
• Newest Squadron on Hill Contains Men of Long Service in Many Army Branches
• New Name for Band Results from Contest
• Introducing a New Series about 321st Officers Open Post Presents Lt. Alfred M. Collins
• Say Ah-h-h!
• In the Mail
• Until Just Recently
• Our Wet Christmas
• One General Statement
• It's Only a Suggestion Gentelemen
• The Proverbial Ball
• Let's Take …

Ua64/25/5/3 Open Post, Vol. 1, No. 12, 321st Detachment

Student Organizations

Newsletter created by the cadets of the 321st AAFCTD stationed at WKU. This issue includes:

• Barney Sutton Gets Air Medal for European Combat Duty
• A.S. Carpenter Heads Complete New Staff
• Soldier of the Week, Claude Dierolf
• Something to Think About
• Beauty Queen of Hill to be Chosen in Contest
• Xmas Eve Marks Debut of Detachment Carollers
• Instructor of the Week, Warner Willey
• Popular Coed Gives Advice -- For Men Only
• Student Majors Come and Go
• And Speaking of Student Majors
• Communique from Plan & Training
• Those Gargantuan Trees
• Western Production of "Claudia" is Pleasant Surprise to Critic
• We'll Always Be …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 20, No. 6, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Hilltopics
• Looking Backward
• Society – Personals
• Faculty Notes
• Alumni Flashes
• Music Notes
• At the Capitol - Movies
• Weddings - Engagements
• Spikes, Cleats & Sneakers
• Daily Doings
• Quotable Quotes

This issue contains articles:

• Baptists Give Literature to Kentucky Library
• Western Students Prepare for Medicine and Dentistry
• Lieut. David Wilhite Recommended for Silver Star
• Aviation Student Given Air Medal – Burney Sutton
• New Magazines Are of War Time Interest
• “Passing Institutions” by Dr. Gordon Wilson to be Put on Sale Today Or Tomorrow
• Chorus Presents Program of Carols …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 20, No. 5, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Hilltopics
• Looking Backward
• Society – Personals
• Faculty Notes
• Alumni Flashes
• Music Notes
• At the Capitol - Movies
• Weddings - Engagements
• Spikes, Cleats & Sneakers
• Daily Doings
• Quotable Quotes
• On the Western Front
• The Service Column

This issue contains articles:

• 1944 Talisman Staff Members Are Chosen
• Oak Leaf Medal to be Awarded – Larry Pace
• “Claudia”, 18^th Production of Western Players, to be Presented December 10
• Dr. A.L. Crabb Gives Manuscript to Kentucky Library
• Senior Committees for Year are Selected
• Convention of Music Clubs Held Tomorrow …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 20, No. 4, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Hilltopics
• Looking Backward
• Society – Personals
• Faculty Notes
• Alumni Flashes
• Music Notes
• At the Capitol - Movies
• Weddings - Engagements
• Spikes, Cleats & Sneakers
• Daily Doings
• Quotable Quotes
• On the Western Front
• The Service Column

This issue contains articles:

• Tentative Plans Are Completed for Annual
• Athletic Director E.A. Diddle Annouces 23 Games on Hilltopper Schedule
• Silver Star Presented Mother of Western Grad Killed in Action – Claude Rayburn
• Dean Finley Grise, Horace McMurty Attend Meeting
• “Mae West” Belt Added to Display
• Mrs. H.H. Cherry Much Improved …

Ua64/25/5/3 Open Post, Vol. 1, No. 9, 321st Detachment

Student Organizations

Newsletter created by the cadets of the 321st AAFCTD stationed at WKU. This issue includes:

• A-S Mauries is Appointed Student Major
• Open Post Staff States Policy
• Lt. Alfred Collins Returns to Detachment Full of Ideas
• Caydets Play for Friday Night Dance
• Soldier of the Week
• ATSP Men Take Courses at Western
• Saturday Reviews are Now Colorful
• A Salute to Our Comrades of the Merchant Marines
• Daffynitions
• Disabled G.J's to Get Post War Employment Aid
• Welcome Squadrons A, B and C
• A Boy Died Last Night
• Fly Safely, E Classmen!
• Sports Shorts
• Former Bombardier and Crew Chief Tells His Experiences
• Fitzwilliam, …