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Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding house mothers at WKU.

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding chapel at WKU.

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding Henry Cherry.

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding the beginnings of WKU.

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding WKU students and professors.

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding school spirit.

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding parking on WKU campus.

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding the growth of WKU.

Ua37/44 From The Sidelines, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpts from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly. A look at WKU from an outsider's point of view on 18 points:

1. Non-attendance of Juniors & Seniors
2. Voting of Students
3. Student Self-Government
4. Fraternities & Sororities
5. Image of Western
6. Faculty Conduct
7. Religious Atmosphere
8. Integration of Western
9. The Tail & the Dog
10. Recognition
11. Provincialism
12. Age 65
13. University High School
14. McNeill School
15. Thompson Science Complex
16. Tenure
17. Retired Teachers
18. Duplication of Effort

Ua37/35/3/1 Arndt Stickles Interview, O. J. Wilson, Arndt Stickles

WKU Administration Documents

Transcription of oral history interview of Arndt Stickles by O.J. Wilson.

Andrew Jackson - Charles Dickinson Duel, Proctor Lynching And Jesse James Gang, Department Of Library Special Collections

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

No abstract provided.

Ora Porter And The George Washington Carver Center, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Adult activities and meetings

Arts and music programs

Beckett, Mrs.

Boyd, Mrs. James

Building renovation and repairs

Children’s health and hygiene

Children’s recreation (games, table tennis, checkers)

Civic clubs and church programs

Community center incorporation (1955)

Community fundraising and donations

Denning, Mrs.

George Washington Carver Club (founders)

George Washington Carver Community Center

Griffin, Helen

Helm, Margie

Hinkle, Alice

Home economics background (Mrs. Boyd)

Hutcheson, Mrs.

Library dedication event

Library services (children’s books, periodicals)

Monthly birthday cake donations (Riley’s Bakery)

Moses, Mrs.

Peele, Emily

Porter, Ora

Recreational needs of youth

Registered nurse oversight (health guidance)

Riley, Mr.

Staff and board members …

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding the early years of WKU.

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding the razing of the Bowling Green Business University.

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly reminiscing about the early days of WKU.

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding commencement and the Class of 1914.

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding freedom of speech and communism.

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding the English department and the organization of WKU in the early days.

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity.

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding moving day 1911.

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding university status and WKU becoming a 4 year college.

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Diaries written by former English professor Gordon Wilson to WKU president Kelly Thompson reminiscing over old times at Western Kentucky University.

• 4:30 PM, 3/22/1964
• A Common Cultural Background, 3/12/1964
• A Widening Influence, 3/4/1964
• Again & Again, 3/19/1964
• An Unending Process, 3/12/1964
• Curriculum, Curricula, 3/1/1964
• If?, 3/9/1964
• Learning in the One-Roomed Country School, 3/2/1964
• Loses & Gains, 3/11/1964
• Our Big, Big Group, 3/18/1964
• Our Small World, 3/2/1964
• Preparation of Our Faculty, 3/24/1964
• Programs, 3/19/1964
• Recognition of Research, 3/6/1964
• Second Wind, 3/1/1964
• Simplicity & Sophistication, 3/28/1964
• So Young & Yet So Old, 3/3/1964
• Some Evidences of Culture, 3/4/1964
• Some Lost History, 3/28/1964 …

Ua37/44 Western Big Events In Late 1963, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly, Addition to 1963 Supplement regarding events of late 1963.

Ua37/44 My Speech To The English Majors & Teachers, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly, Addition to 1963 Supplement regarding a speech he delivered to the WKU English Department.

Ua37/44 Memories Of The Old Chestnut Hunt, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly, Addition to 1963 Supplement regarding chestnut hunts, boat excursions and other student entertainment in the Southern Normal School.

Ua37/44 Further Ranges, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly, Addition to 1963 Supplement regarding the Southern Normal School.

Ua37/44 Our Golden Wedding, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly, Addition to 1963 Supplement regarding Wilson's 50th wedding anniversary and the Southern Normal School.

Ua37/44 Our Early Crowded Conditions At The Normal, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly, Addition to 1963 Supplement regarding the Southern Normal School.

Ua3/3/1 Ode To A Half Century, A. L. Crabb

WKU Administration Documents

Reminisces of A.L. Crabb sent to Kelly Thompson. Includes memories of Finley Grise, E.H. Canon and Gordon Wilson.

Ua3/3/1 Herman Donovan Correspondence, Herman Donavan, Wku President's Office - Thompson

WKU Administration Documents

Letter from Herman Donovan to Kelly Thompson regarding Donovan's speech and presentation of cane to Captain Charles Vanmeter in 1908.