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Ua99/2 Bowling Green Business University Business Manager, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by the business manager of Bowling Green Business University.

Ua1c4/7 Student Groups & Association Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of student groups and associations not otherwise listed.

Ua99/5 Bowling Green Business University Departments, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about the departments of Bowling Green Business University.

Ua99/6/1 Bowling Green Business University Student Affairs Student Organizations, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by student organizations.

Ua37/42 Faculty Personal Papers Nina Hammer, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Personal papers of Nina Hammer, Bowling Green Business University Registrar 1938-1963; WKU Registrar 1963-1969.

Ua1c11/76 Bowling Green Business University Photograph Collection, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Photographs removed from UA99 Bowling Green Business University Records.

Jeffrey, Jonathan David, B. 1960 (Fa 574), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 574. Oral history interview by Jonathan Jeffrey of Jerry Ellis Baker, conducted at his home in Bowling Green, Kentucky, regarding Baker’s life and accomplishments.

Ua94/5/4 Student/Alumni Personal Papers Bowling Green Business University W.A. Whitlow, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Accounting books created by W.A. Whitlow for courses taken at the Bowling Green Business University.

Ua94/5/2 Student/Alumni Personal Papers Bowling Green Business University O.B. Carter Student Papers, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Business course homework materials of O.B. Carter, includes practice ledgers, journals, checks and bank statements for a General Mercantile practice company. Also included are a typewriting manual and penmanship letter.

Ua37/21 Faculty Personal Papers William Jenkins, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Documents relating to the life and achievements of William Jenkins. The series contains biographical and professional data.

Ua99/7 Good Ol' Bu, Vol. 3, No. 4, Bgbu Alumni Association

WKU Archives Records

Newsletter created for Bowling Green Business University alumni. Articles regarding gifts and donations by members, reunions and the Gordon Ford Business College.

Ua99/7 Gool Ol' Bu, Vol. 2, No. 3, Bgbu Alumni Association

WKU Archives Records

Newsletter created for Bowling Green Business University alumni. Articles regarding gifts and donations by members, reunions and the Gordon Ford Business College.

Ua99/7 Good Ol' Bu, Vol. 2, No. 1, Bgbu Alumni Association

WKU Archives Records

Newsletter created for Bowling Green Business University alumni. Articles regarding gifts and donations by members, reunions and the Gordon Ford Business College.

Ua99/7 Good Ol' Bu Vol. 1, No. 3, Bgbu Alumni Association

WKU Archives Records

Newsletter created for Bowling Green Business University alumni. Articles regarding gifts and donations by members, reunions and the Gordon Ford Business College.

Ua99/7 Good Ol' Bu Vol. 1, No. 2, Bgbu Alumni Association

WKU Archives Records

Newsletter created for Bowling Green Business University alumni. Articles regarding gifts and donations by members, reunions and the Gordon Ford Business College.

Ua99/7 Good Ol' Bu Vol. 1, No. 1, Bgbu Alumni Association

WKU Archives Records

Newsletter created for Bowling Green Business University alumni. Articles regarding gifts and donations by members, reunions and the Gordon Ford Business College.

Ua37/30/2 Wku Research Notecards - A Topics, Lowell Harrison

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Notecards created by Lowell Harrison while researching his book Western Kentucky University. The cards transcribed below are for 170 topics beginning with A ranging from AAUP to Awards.

Ua99/3 Bgbu 1 & 2 Year Graduates, Bgbu Registrar

WKU Archives Records

Bowling Green Business University 1 and 2 year graduates not listed elsewhere.

Ua94/5/6 Lucian Flora Scrapbook - Part 1, Lucian Flora

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

First half of World War II scrapbook compiled by Lucian Flora of Smiths Grove, Kentucky. He attended Bowling Green Business University from 1938 to 1940. This scrapbook contains materials regarding the campaigns through North Africa and Italy. Also included are items related to his life in Affinity, WV prior to the war. There are post cards and photographs of Columbus, Ohio; Washington, DC; Baltimore, Maryland; Alexandria, Virginia; and Ireland.

See second half of the scrapbook here.

Ua99/5 Accounting Award, Bowling Green Business University

WKU Archives Records

Rules for accounting award established at Bowling Green Business University by Yeager & White. The award changed names as the accounting firm changed partners and titles:

• Yeager & White - 1940-1942
• Yeager & Ford - 1942-1947
• Yeager, Ford & Warren - 1947-1954

Ua94/5/1 Registration & Schedule Cards, Bgbu Registrar

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Registration and schedule cards belonging to Clifton Rhodes, a veteran enrolled at Bowling Green Business University between 1949 and 1951.

Ua94/5/1 Sadie Hawkins Dance Card, Pi Tau Nu

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Pi Tau Nu fraternity Sadie Hawkins Dance card belonging to Julian Harper. It includes a list of Pi Tau Nu members and ads for many Bowling Green businesses.

Ua94/5/6 Lucian Flora Scrapbook - Part 2, Lucian Flora

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Second half of World War II scrapbook compiled by Lucian Flora of Smiths Grove, Kentucky. He attended Bowling Green Business University from 1938 to 1940. This scrapbook contains materials regarding the campaigns through North Africa and Italy. Included are a set of postcards from an Italian soldier to his girlfirend. There are also post cards or Ireland, cities in North Africa and Italy, as well as Cincinnati, Ohio and Houston, Texas.

The first half of the scrapbook can be seen here.

Ua94/5/1 Kappa Beta Pi Backward Dance, Kappa Beta Pi

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Kappa Beta Pi backward dance, dance card belonging to Leone Brewer. It includes a list of officers and members, ads from Bowling Green merchants and a dance card.

A Follow Up Study Of The Four-Year Teacher-Training Graduates Of The Bowling Green Of Commerce, 1937-1941, Mary Elizabeth Cornette

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The Bowling Green College of Commerce is a division of the Bowling Green Business University, a privately owned and controlled institution which has been located in Bowling Green, Kentucky, since its removal there in 1884 from Glasgow, Kentucky. Until 1906 the Southern Normal School was associated with the Business University under the same management, but in that year the Normal School was made a state institution, the Western Kentucky State Normal School, and the Business University continued under private management.

In 1922 the Bowling Green College of Commerce was organized with an independent state charter as a division of the …

Ua99/6/2 1942 Towers, Bowling Green Business University

WKU Archives Records

1942 Towers yearbook.

• J.L. Harman, president
• J. Murray Hill, first vice-president
• W.L. Matthews, second vice-president
• Nina Hammer, registrar
• Faculty
• Office Force
• Student Instructors
• Seniors – Class of 1942 – degree, hometown, activities
• Juniors – Class of 1943 – major, hometown
• Sophomores – Class of 1944 – major, hometown
• Freshman – Class of 1945 – major, hometown
• College Secretarial – hometown
• Commercial – major, hometown
• Thurman, William. Ode to Finney I
• The Features – Beauty Queens & Favorites
• Who’s Who at B.U.
• Fraternities – Alpha Sigma, Beta Pi, Pi Tau Nu, Toppers
• Sororities – Delta Theta, Kappa Beta Pi
• Council of …

Ua99/9 The Southern Exponent Of Business Education, Bowling Green Business University

WKU Archives Records

Magazine created by the Bowling Green Business University to promote the school. Includes descriptions of courses, lists of students and alumni and photographs.

Ua99/9 The Southern Exponent Of Business, Bowling Green Business University

WKU Archives Records

Magazine created by the Bowling Green Business University to promote the school. Includes descriptions of courses, lists of students and alumni and photographs.

Ua99/9 Southern Exponent Of Business Education, June 1940, Bowling Green Business University

WKU Archives Records

Newsletter created by the Bowling Green Business University to promote the school. Includes descriptions of courses, lists of students and alumni and photographs.

Ua99/9 Southern Exponent Of Business Education, December 1939, Bowling Green Business University

WKU Archives Records

Newsletter created by the Bowling Green Business University to promote the school. Includes descriptions of courses, lists of students and alumni and photographs.