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Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 19, No. 3, Wku Student Affairs

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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
• Alumni Flashes
• Music Morsels
• Service Column
• Weddings - Engagements
• Spikes, Cleats & Sneakers
• Daily Doings
• On Our Western Front
• The Service Column

This issue contains articles:

• Plans Made for Wartime Homecoming
• Twenty One Seniors Named for Who’s Who
• Western Basketball Team to Play DePaul University at Chicago Stadium
• Charles Taylor is Acting Head – Agriculture (WKU)
• Lieutenant Carlton Clark, Former Grid Star at Western, Missing in Action
• Service Board to be Here …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 18, No. 17, Wku Student Affairs

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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
• Alumni Flashes
• Music Notes
• At the Capitol - Movies
• Weddings - Engagements
• Spikes, Cleats & Sneakers

This issue contains articles:

• Western Offers Work in 20 Departments
• Hold Memorial Chapel Services for Prof. Franz Strahm
• David Morton to Address Graduates Tonight Charles Welch Delivered Baccalaureate Speech
• Boys State Meets on Hill June 7-13
• ROTC Offered in Summer School
• Open Shop Held by Industrial Arts
• Western Approved for V-1 Program
• Special Issue of College …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 18, No. 16, Wku Student Affairs

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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
• Alumni Flashes
• Music Notes
• At the Capitol - Movies
• Weddings - Engagements
• Spikes, Cleats & Sneakers

This issue contains articles:

• Military Schedule Ends With Field Day Excercises
• David Morton, Dr. Charles Welch to Address June Graduating Class
• Candidates for Degrees Listed by the Registrar
• Twilight Band Concert Will be Monday Night
• Open Shop is to be Held June 4-5
• ROTC Offered in Summer School
• Lecture Presented by Violet Eckhoff Here Recently
• Boys …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 18, No. 15, Wku Student Affairs

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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
• Alumni Flashes
• Music Notes
• At the Capitol - Movies
• Weddings - Engagements
• Spikes, Cleats & Sneakers

This issue contains articles:

• Col. E.B. Crabil May be at Western Until June 5^th
• Western Chosen Key Center for Civilian Morale
• John Vincent’s Jack Suite Recorded
• Dr. J.P. Cornette to Deliver Annual Mothers Day Address This Morning
• Senior Dinner Dance, May 15
• Ogden-Robinson Contest, May 28
• Sesquicentennial Program Given
• Art of Janet Turner is Now …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 18, No. 14, Wku Student Affairs

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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
• Alumni Flashes
• Music Notes
• At the Capitol - Movies
• Weddings - Engagements
• Spikes, Cleats & Sneakers
• Quotable Quotes
• Daily Doings
• This is Just A Reminder
• Campus Chips of the Cadet Corps

This issue contains articles:

• State Music Festival Open on Campus
• Colonel Gordon Rives Catts Relieves E.B. Crabill
• 32 High School to Participate in Varied Activities
• Spring Battalion Parades Started
• Chapel Not in Session Today
• All-Kentucky Chorus Sings Tomorrow
• Education Council Banquet …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 18, No. 13, Wku Student Affairs

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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
• Alumni Flashes
• Music Notes
• At the Capitol - Movies
• Weddings - Engagements
• Spikes, Cleats & Sneakers
• Quotable Quotes
• Daily Doings
• Campus Chips of the Cadet Corps

This issue contains articles:

• 5,000 Fan Greet Toppers on Return
• 16 Winners of Kiwanis Medals Attend Western
• Quality in Quantity Depicted in Scholarship Group
• Music Festival Here Tomorrow
• Annual Spring Band Concert Will be Given in Van Meter, Sunday Afternoon
• Tournament Films to be Reshown at …

Ua37/23 Whas Broadcast No. 24, Whas, Western Kentucky University, Earl Moore

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Script for weekly WKU broadcast on WHAS radio. This particular show is a play written using letters owned by Lenora Lindley of Livermore, Kentucky written by a freed slave in Liberia to her former owner in Ohio County, Kentucky.

Ua1a Students Weekly, News Publishing Company

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Weekly Bowling Green newspaper which catered to students at WKU, Bowling Green Business University and College High.

Ua1a Students Weekly, News Publishing Company

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Weekly Bowling Green newspaper which catered to students at WKU, Bowling Green Business University and College High.

Ua94/6/1 Scrapbook, Dorothy Topmiller

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Scrapbook created by Dorothy Topmiller from 1932 to 1934 regarding her senior year at Bowling Green High School and her freshman year at Western Kentucky University. Contains many autographs, obituaries, photographs, clippings, programs and mementos.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Viii, No. 19, Wku Student Affairs

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

• Alumni News
• Athletics
• Class News
• Club News
• Graduates’ Directory is Conducted by W.J. Craig
• Editorials
• Library Notes – Kentucky Library
• Lines & Spaces
• Personals
• Society
• The Long & the Short of It by Pete & Repeat
• The Stumbling Block by Charlene Nunn
• Training School Notes

This issue contains articles:

• Local Quartet Receive Ovation at Chapel Hour
• Concluding Issue of Year Published
• Date of Second Commencement Set for Aug. 25
• Sherry Sisters Established Record
• City Health Nurse Lectures to First Aid Class on Hill
• Farm Students Vie …

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

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

• Alumni News
• Athletics
• Chapel
• Class News
• Club News
• Editorials
• Kempusology Inside Out by Kelly Thompson
• Kollege Kampus Ravings by A. Shavings
• Personals
• Rambling ‘Round by Leon Cook
• Training School Notes

This issue contains articles:

• Rev. Edwin H. Hughes Gives Sermon Here
• Gives Series of Lectures Here – Edward Griggs
• Managing Editor Weds – William Lytle
• New Museum at Teachers College Open to Public
• W.J. Cameron is Heard by B.U. Class
• ROTC Unit National Champs, Awarded Trophies at Chapel Hour by Colonel Bassett; Team Also Winner of …

Ua12/2/2 1928 Talisman, Western Kentucky University

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1928 Talisman yearbook.

• Foreword
• Dedication – Arndt Stickles
• Talisman Staff
• Western Kentucky Teachers’ College
• The College
• Faculty
• Classes
• Normal / High School Department
• Organizations / Clubs
• Features
• Athletics
• WKTC Calendar 1927-1928
• Owsley, Roy. A Word of Thanks
• Advertisements

Ua94/6/1 Mildred Mcgaw Scrapbook, Mildred Willett Mcgaw

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Portions of a scrapbook compiled by Mildred (Willett) McGaw during her time at WKU as a student. Includes images of campus buildings, an autograph of Henry Cherry, yell cards, cheer sheets and calling cards.

People mentioned in the book:

• Billings, ?
• Bishop, Eveline
• Bishop, Madeline
• Bondurant, Winifred
• Bullock, Elizabeth
• Cherry, Henry
• Clarke, Jimmie
• Clements, Virginia
• Craig, G.G.
• Davis, Edna
• Day, Lottie
• Du Call, Odessa
• Egbert, Ercell
• Els, Virginia
• Glass, Virginia
• Hall, James
• Hammond, Bill
• Henry, Mary
• Hill, Ruby
• Johnson, Elsie
• King, Bertie
• Lancaster, L.Y.
• Lindow, C.W.
• Loyd, Arthur
• Lynn, Bertha
• Markwell, Martha
• Miller, Leora
• Minter, Elizabeth
• Newby, Alma
• Nicholas, Lelia …

Ua94/6/1 Mildred Mcgaw Autograph Book, Mildred Willett Mcgaw

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Autograph book owned by Mildred (Willett) McGaw with items dated between June 29 to July 17, 1926 includes a list of teachers and courses.

People mentioned in the book:

• Adkins, Valinda
• Barton, Emma
• Barttger, Beulah
• Beall, William
• Billings, ?
• Bondurant, Winnie aka Bill
• Braden, J.W.
• Brooks, Mattye
• Clark, Ethel
• Constance, Clyde
• Cox, Forda
• Craig, G.G.
• Day, Lottie
• Dean, Ruby
• Denton, Dollie
• Durrett, Ellis
• Els, Virginia
• Farris, Cecil
• Griffey, J.D.
• Hall, Margaret
• Harper, Gertrude
• Harper, Letha
• Hayes, Ruby
• Hillyard, Elisabeth
• Jackson, Larena
• King, Bertie
• Lancaster, L.Y.
• Lee, ?
• Lindow, C.W.
• Mann, Gertrude
• Masters, Stella
• McClure, Alma
• McClure, Mary
• Nichols, Lelia
• Patterson, …

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

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

• Alumni News
• Athletics
• Campus Opinion
• Editorials
• Exchanges
• Personals
• Society
• Student Council
• Under the Church Spires

This issue contains articles:

• The College Heights Herald Makes Debut
• Helm, Margie. The College Library Has Large Growth
• Hart County Reporter is on the Job
• Rural Life Conference Opens on College Heights Friday February 20
• Study English Work in High Schools of Ky.
• Commencement Spearks Furnished from Faculty
• Newspaper is to be Issued by Students
• College Postoffice Addition to Hill Tea-Room Girls Work on Project Developed by the Home Economics Students …

Ua12/2/2 Vista, Western Kentucky University

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1915 Vista yearbook.

• Greeting
• Dedication – Henry Cherry
• The Fort
• C.S. Brown – Dormitory Manager
• Faculty & Board of Regents
• Dreams
• Class of 1915
• Senior Editorial
• Midsummer Nights Dream – Senior Play
• Privileged? Hardly
• Alice in Seniorland
• Class Poem
• Annual Debate of the Senior Girls
• Know Em?
• Owed to Senior Note Books
• Senior Class Song – We’re a Jolly Band of Seniors
• Concerning a Senior and Geometry I
• Ex Parte
• Class Song
• Class Will
• Juniors – Class of 1916
• Sophomores – Class of 1917
• Freshmen – Class of 1918
• Class Editorials, Poems, Prophecies, Songs
• White Butterfly
• Effects of the Son …

The Sororian, 1915, Estherian Literary Society

Yearbooks

Second print publication of The Sororian, the Anderson College yearbook. Printed in 1915 by the Estherian Literary Society.

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

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Letter from Nettie Depp to Henry Cherry written April 13, 1914 when Depp was Superintendent of Barren County Schools. She was the first woman elected to any office in Barren County, seven years before woman's suffrage in the United States. She was also the first WKU alum to be elected superintendent of schools. Transcription of letter:

[Note at top] Look on alumni list and change address.

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

My dear Mr. Cherry;

Your letter sent to Scottsville has reached me. My prospects for the following year are possibly not as flattering as you would like, but …

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.

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

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Letter written to Henry Cherry by Nettie Depp from Scottsville, Kentucky, Dec. 11, 1910. Transcript:

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

My dear Mr. Cherry;

As a matter of course I am egotistical enough to think that you would like to hear from me occasionally.

School here is progressing nicely though the school board is financially embarressed [sic] at present. You know they began the school with only a twenty cent tax and now they begin to realize that they will have to do something in order to meet the growing demands of the school.

They have called a meeting …

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

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. 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 …

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. 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 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. 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