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Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding early classes at WKU and bookstores in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

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

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

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

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

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

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

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

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

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

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

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

Ua37 A Factbook Of Western Kentucky University, O. J. Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

A factbook compiled by O.J. Wilson regarding the pre-history of WKU and the history of the university from 1907 through 1967. It includes chapters:

• Genealogical Background
• The Presidents
• Academic Expansion at Western
• The Physical Plant
• Traditions at WKU
• Intercollegiate Athletics at Western
• Sixty Years of Vital Statistics
• Chronology of Historical Events
• Western's Faculty & Staff

An appendix is listed, but was not included with the factbook.

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 A Brief History Of The History Department, J. Crawford Crowe

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

A brief history of the WKU History Department prepared by J. Crawford Crowe for O.J. Wilson's WKU History Project.

Ua37/35/3 Sociology At Western Kentucky University, Harold Hepler

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Report on the history of the WKU Sociology Department for O.J. Wilson's History of WKU.

Ua37/35/3 Department Of Philosophy & Religion, O. J. Wilson

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History of the WKU department of Philosophy & Religion written for O.J. Wilson's history of WKU project.

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

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

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

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

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

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

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

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

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

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

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

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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

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

Ua37/44 Diary To Kelly, Gordon Wilson

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

Ua37/44 What Was It Like?, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding the early days of Western Kentucky University.

Ua37/44 Bowling Green Business University, Gordon Wilson

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

Ua37/44 Student Government, Gordon Wilson

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Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding student government and student newspapers.

Ua37/44 Across My Street, Gordon Wilson

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Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding the Ogden College campus at Western Kentucky University and early colleges of Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Ua37/44 Succession, Gordon Wilson

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Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding succession of WKU's administration in the future.

Ua37/44 Assimilation, Gordon Wilson

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Excerpt from Gordon Wilson's Diary to Kelly regarding the assimilation of new faculty into Western Kentucky University.

Ua37/37 The Ruins Of A Confederate Fort On The Campus Of Western Kentucky State College, Arndt Stickles

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Article regarding the preservation of Ft. Albert Sidney Johnston on the grounds of Western Kentucky University.

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

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