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Ua3/1/2/1 Letter Nettie Depp To Henry Cherry, Nettie Depp

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Letter from Nettie Depp to Henry Cherry from Glasgow, Kentucky, August 20, 1910. Transcript of letter:

Pres. H.H. Cherry, Bowling Green, Ky.

My dear Mr. Cherry,

I have been wating [sic] to know for certain just what I was to do. I go to Scottsville next week. I have charge of the 7th and 8th grades and two higher classes at $65.00 per month. This is not the work I wanted to do nor is it the price I wanted to work for, still I think it the best I can do this year and I shall go and do …

Ua3/1/2/1 Letter Nettie Depp To Henry Cherry, Nettie Depp

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Letter from Nettie Depp to Henry Cherry dated July 28, 1910 from Glasgow, Ky. Transcript of letter:

Pres. H.H. Cherry, Bowling Green, Ky.

My dear sir:

Your letter to hand and I have made the application for the school. I sincerely thank you for all you have done for me and only hope that I may be able in some way to repay you.

I have not been at home long enough to visit any schools but hope to do so soon.

Yours for success

Nettie B. Depp

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

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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 …

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

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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

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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

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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 …

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

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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

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Broadside about Flora Stallard, the first life certificate graduate.

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

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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

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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

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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 …

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

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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 …

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

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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 …

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

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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 …

Ua98/2 Grade Book, Potter College For Young Ladies

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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

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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 – …

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

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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 …

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

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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.

• Gorin, Rebecca. The Forts of Bowling Green
• Metamorphosis
• Gray, Nell. The Club
• Coombs, Mary. Charity
• Cobb, Pearl. The Garden
• Miller, Lula. The Widow’s Home Coming
• Porter, Jessie. The Widow Shows Her Treasures
• Dorsey, Josey. The Widow’s Grief
• Hinton, Kate. The Love Making of the Widow’s Maid & Sir Roger’s Man
• Washburn, Mary. The Delayed Letter
• Redmond, Ethel. The Effect of Sir Roger’s Death on the Widow
• Voorhees, Pansy. The Widow’s Funeral …

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

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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.

• The Evolution of Personality
• Hurt, Lillian. The Evolution of Personality in Nineteenth Century Poetry
• Alcestis – Dramatic Monologue Based on Euripides’ Play
• Coombs, Belle. Sir Roger Falls in Love
• Hobson, Margaret. The Dinner at the Inn
• Washburn, Mary. Sir David Dundrum & the Widow
• Sanders, Nora. The Poodle
• Crandell, Pearl. After the Dinner at the Inn
• Washburn, Mary. Sir David Dundrum Becomes Infatuated with the Widow
• Drake, Elizabeth. The Dinner at …

Ua98 1906 Potter College Talisman, Potter College For Young Ladies

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1906 Talisman yearbook produced by Potter College for Young Ladies.

• A Bit of History Concerning Potter College
• Faculty & Officers
• Senior Class - Class of 1906 (PC)
• Steph, Mamie. Ode to the Seniors
• Senior Prophecy
• Kirby, Clara. History of the Senior Class
• Steph, Mamie. Senior Rest!
• Senior Specials
• Junior Class - Class of 1907 (PC)
• Sophomore Class – Class of 1908 (PC)
• Faucett, Ethel. Class Prophecy 1908
• Freshmen Class – Class of 1909 (PC)
• The Creed of the Freshmen
• Lost Pony
• The Specials
• Kentucky Club
• Tennessee Club
• Mississippi Club
• Arkansas Club
• Louisiana Club
• Texas Club
• North-South-Western Club
• Mu Phi Psi …

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

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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.

• Kirby, Clara. The Course of Love
• Hill, Louise. Comparison of Prometheus Unbound (Shelley) & Manfred (Byron)
• Gilbert, Sarah. With Margaret & Jackie
• How the Cow Jumped Over the Moon
• Signs of Fine Frenzy
• Liquid Air – Chautauqua Lecture
• Radium – Chautauqua Lecture
• Mr. Pearson’s Lecture – Chautauqua Lecture
• Richard Hobson – Chautauqua Lecture
• Flag Rush
• Old Girls’ Reception to the New
• Reception by the New Girls
• Junior Feast – Class of …

Ua98/2 Commencement Invitation, Potter College For Young Ladies

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Commencement invitation, program and list of class of 1905.

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

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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
• Santo Domingo & the United States
• Kirby, Clara. A Dead Letter
• Willis, Effie. Milton’s Minor Poems
• Baker, Louise. Uncle Reuben’s Baptism
• Myers, Willie. Was Godfrey Cass a Victim of Circumstances?
• Gorin, Rebecca. The Expression of the Emotions in Cats
• Faculty & Students’ Reception
• Mr. Walter Spry’s Recital
• The YWCA Reception
• Reception for Seniors & Sophomores
• YWCA Notes
• Exchange

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

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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
• Obenchain, Margery. Milton’s Angels
• Potter, Reed. The Song of Roland
• Elmore, Cynthinia. Robin Hood
• Brownell, Estelle. Sir Roger de Coverley
• Deane, Everett. A Dream in the Tenses
• A Study of Three Plays of Shakespeare – Richard III, Richard II & King John
• To Psychology
• Senior Notes – Class of 1905 (PC)
• Junior Notes – Class of 1906 (PC)
• Sophomore Notes – Class of 1907 (PC)
• Freshman Notes – Class of …

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

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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.

• The Degeneracy of the Modern Novel
• A Plea for the New Novel
• The Home Makers
• Faculty of Potter College
• Aunt Charlotte
• Our Next Presidential Campaign
• Memories
• Societies
• Dead Sea Fruit
• Why I Disliked the Last Book I Read
• The Last Book I Read
• Exchange
• Mrs. Smith’s Forget-Me-Not Party
• The Senior Reception – Class of 1904 (PC)
• Alumnae Notes
• College Notes

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

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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.

• Cave Mill & Its Associations
• A Psalm of Potter’s Girl’s Life
• Massey’s Springs
• In the Evening
• Twilight in the Country
• Incidents of My Life
• Magee, Louis. A Spring Lament
• Mary’s Change of Opinion
• Adventures of an Apple
• Garlic
• Burr, Lehigh. Applied Mathematics
• Exchange
• Starr, A.E. The Grind
• YWCA Notes
• Athletics
• College Notes

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

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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.

• Some Scenes in Kentucky
• College Yells
• Less – Leslie Jenkins
• Kuntz, Eugene. The Voiceless Melody
• Senior Class – Class of 1904 (PC)
• Place & Function of a College Magazine
• The Potter Mouse
• Senior Notes – Class of 1904 (PC)
• Junior Class – Class of 1905 (PC)
• Sophomore Class – Class of 1906 (PC)
• Freshmen – Class of 1907 (PC)
• Ossolian Society
• Hypatian Society
• Exchange
• Alumnae Notes
• YWCA Notes
• Grinds
• College Notes …

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

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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.

• Drake, Sallie. History of Bowling Green Part III, 1870-1903
• Payne, Llewellyn. History of Bowling Green
• Payne, Llewellyn. Pleasant J. Potter
• Kuntz, Eugene. I Dreamed of You
• Chronicles of the Class of 1903
• Senior Prophecies – Class of 1903 (PC)
• Class Poem
• Editorial
• YWCA
• Societies
• Exchanges
• College Notes

Ua98/2 Commencement Invitation, Potter College For Young Ladies

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Commencement invitation, program and list of class of 1903.

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

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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.

• Claypool, Cary & Celeste Cuthbertson. History of Bowling Green, Part II 1860-1870
• Starr, Aljean. Ode to April
• McNeal, Ethel. Rev. Benjamin Francis Cabell
• Obenchain, Jeanette. Ellen Douglas Cabell
• Warwick, Margaret. Mother Mine
• Editorials
• Exchanges
• College Notes
• Mrs. Benjamin Cabell’s Reception for Mrs. M.E. Shelburne
• Alumnae Notes