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Ua64/10 Point System, Wku Physical Education & Recreation

WKU Administration Documents

Point system for earning an athletic letter and/or sweater from the WKU Physical Education & Recreation department circa 1937.

Ua30/1/1 A New Rotc Building, Wku Planning, Design & Construction, J. M. Ingram

WKU Administration Documents

A New ROTC Building for Western Kentucky State Teachers College, J.M. Ingram, no #, no date, 4 sheets, 23 ½ x 18, Scale 1/8”=1”. Set includes a front elevation and floor plans for ground floor, first and second floors.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Xiii, No. 5, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Alumni News
• Athletics
• Class & Club
• Personals
• Society
• Sport-Shots

This issue contains articles:

• Presidents of County Delegations Are Elected
• Olga Randolph in Cast of “Holiday”
• President Henry Cherry Reveals Calendar of Summer School
• Social Studies Council Holds Meet Recently
• Peace Menaced, Organizer Says – William Ackerman, Emergency Peace Campaign
• Cantata to Be Presented by Choir Dec. 13
• Sterrett Cuthbertson Made N.Y.A. Supervisor
• Clarence Denman Lists “Boners” Given as Quiz Answer
• Dave Kerr Conducts Net Clinic Friday on Local Floor
• Books Borrowed from Library for Dorm Girls …

Ua97/1 Ogden Trustees Meeting Minutes, Ogden College Trustees

WKU Administration Documents

Meeting minutes of the Ogden College trustees regarding heating and ventilation system improvements to unidentified building(s), plumbing, payments to contractors and Cooper Smith appointed secretary.

Ua37/23 Whas Broadcast No. 46, Whas, Western Kentucky University, Earl Moore

WKU Administration Documents

Script for weekly WKU broadcast on WHAS radio. This show included Earl Moore, William Spriegel and Chester Channon.

Meeting, Wku Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Documents

Minutes of WKU Board of Regents meeting.

Analysis Of Public School Music Curricula Of The State Teachers Colleges In The United States, Louise Jackson Funk

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

There is very little literature pertaining to the Public School Music curriculas of the state teachers colleges in the United States.

Various questions, however, have arisen in each institution relative to the required music courses and to the number of hours that should be required of a public school music major. Music teachers disagree as to the text to be used in music courses. Of all the various public school music texts available it is difficult to find any one text that is most worthy of recognition as there seem to be many of equal value. Not only is there …

Ua11/1 Teachers College Heights Vol. 16, No. 2, Western Kentucky University

WKU Administration Documents

Teachers College Heights monthly magazine promoting WKU and documenting campus events and courses offered. Features included in this issue:

• Western Kentucky State Teachers College - Its Purpose
• Second Annual Dad's Day Program Given
• Legend of the Dogwood
• Henry Wright, 1878-1936 obituary
• The Training School of Western Teachers College
• A Brief Resume of the Graduate Work at Western Kentucky State Teachers College
• 1936 Homecoming Honored First Team
• Founders Day at Western Nov. 16
• Addresses Delivered at Corner Stone Laying, Cherry Hall by Henry Cherry, George Meuth, George Sager and H.W. Peters
• Seward, R.H. Thirteenth Annual Report of the College Heights Foundation …

Ua37/23 Whas Broadcast No. 45, Whas, Western Kentucky University, Earl Moore

WKU Administration Documents

Script for weekly WKU broadcast on WHAS radio. This show included Earl Moore, W.M. Pearce, L.L. Hudson, ? Trigg and James Arnold.

A Study Of The Attitudes & Contributions Of Organized Labor To Education Prior To 1860, H. B. Mcalister

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This study presents a somewhat connected narrative of the attitudes and contributions of organized labor to education prior to 1860. It has a twofold purpose: first, it is concerned with a consideration of the psychological, economic, social and political background which provided and shaped the determining factors of organized labor's earlier educational attitudes and contributions; and second, with an investigation for evidences as to the nature, extent and significance of these attitudes and contributions in evaluating labor's part in establishing our system of free public school education.

Present Practices & Methods Of Supervising Student Teachers In Industrial Arts, Walter Nalbach

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The problem is threefold:

1. To determine the present practices of the programs in which student teaching is done.
2. To analyze significant variations and to show important central tendencies in the technique of supervision of student teachers.
3. To ascertain a means of evaluating student teaching in industrial arts.

Ua37/23 Whas Broadcast No. 44, Whas, Western Kentucky University, Earl Moore

WKU Administration Documents

Script for weekly WKU broadcast on WHAS radio. This show included Earl Moore, Nell Travelstead, ? Clark, Earline Manning, Ed Diddle Jr., James Brownfield, Annie Reeves, Don Harris and Doris Blewett.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Xiii, No. 4, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Alumni News
• Athletics
• Class & Club
• Personals
• Society
• Sport-Shots

This issue contains articles:

• Third District Educational Association Meets on Hill
• College Chorus to Present Oratorio “Prince of Peace”
• Murray Head to Speak to College Press – James Richmond
• Dorm Girls Give Leap Year Dance in Gymnasium
• Dr. Gordon Wilson Speaks at Alvaton High
• State College Heads Convene Here Nov. 8-9
• New Press Box to Be Erected
• L. T. Smith Is to Attend Conference at Chicago
• Western Has for Guests 1914 Gridmen
• Kerns, Hazel. Louis Salomon Is …

Ua1b3/5 Meeting Minutes, Wku Cherry Statue Committee

WKU Administration Documents

Meeting minutes of the WKU Cherry Statue Committee regarding fund raising to pay for the Henry Cherry Statue.

Ua37/23 Whas Broadcast No. 42, Whas, Western Kentucky University, Earl Moore

WKU Administration Documents

Script for weekly WKU broadcast on WHAS radio. This show included Earl Moore and Louis Salomon talking about Guatemala.

Meeting, Wku Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Documents

Minutes of WKU Board of Regents meeting regarding construction of Cherry Hall. Includes executive committee meeting minutes for October 16, 1936.

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

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Alumni News
• Athletics
• Class & Club
• Personals
• Society

This issue contains articles:

• Cornerstone Program Slated for 4 PM – Cherry Hall
• Western Prepares for Annual Homecoing
• Lillian Johnson at Work at University of Chicago
• Shelton, Marjorie. Herald Reporter Finds Fall Play “Colossal”
• Third District Education Association to Convene Here
• M.L. Billings Addresses Training School at Chapel Exercises
• McNally, Perkerson Slated to Speak at Lexington
• Librarians to Attend Southeastern Library Association
• Edgar Stansbury Paid Visit by Thief; Watch Missing
• Pep Rally Is Recent Radio Presentation
• Congress Club …

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

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Alumni News
• Athletics
• Campus Copy
• Class News
• Club News
• Hill Topics
• Personals
• Society
• Sport-Shots

This issue contains articles:

• Middle Tennessee Favored to Win Over Hilltoppers
• Reid Sterrett Gets Cast for New Melodrama
• Arndt Stickles Speaks at Maysville
• Class Officers Are Elected
• Lady Luck Plays Star Role in Xavier Triumph
• County Pupils to See Game
• Tennis Hopes Soar as Veterans Report for Fall Practice
• Social Study Council to Meet on Hill
• Plans Made for Big Homecoming
• Robert Francis Joins Faculty at University of Wisconsin
• Tennessee Polytechnic Institute …

Ua1b3/5 Meeting Minutes, Wku Cherry Statue Committee

WKU Administration Documents

Meeting minutes of the WKU Cherry Statue Committee regarding organization for soliciting funds from alumni.

Ua37/23 Whas Broadcast No. 37, Whas, Western Kentucky University, Earl Moore

WKU Administration Documents

Script for weekly WKU broadcast on WHAS radio. This show included Earl Moore, Henry Cherry, ? McChesney, Finley Grise, ? Richards, Frank Baird and Mrs. C.O. Evans.

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

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Alumni News
• Athletics
• Class News
• Club News
• Hill Topics
• Personals
• Society
• Sport-Shots

This issue contains articles:

• Plans for Dads’ Day Are Complete
• Radio Program Tuesday Opens New Fall Series
• Class Officers Are Nominated
• Military Club Holds First Fall Meeting
• Over Two Hundred Students Get National Youth Administration
• Post Office Has Hours Changed
• Social Study Council Will Meet on Hill
• Western Musicians Entertain Rotarians
• Congress Club Plans Homecoming Fete
• R.D. Perry Builds Concert Band
• Kentucky Library Is Given Many Books
• Western Grads Win Awards in Story Contest …

Meeting, Wku Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Documents

Minutes of WKU Board of Regents meeting includes minutes of executive committee meetings as well all regarding the construction of Cherry Hall.

Ua3/1/2/1 Memo To Professors Re: Freshman Orientation, Wku President's Office

WKU Administration Documents

Memo from president Henry Cherry to professors tasked with orienting freshmen at WKU. The memo outlines talking points and announcements regarding chapel attendance, homesickness, contacting their parents, athletics and National Youth Administration job opportunities.

Implications Of School Board Membership: A Handbook For School Board Members, W. B. Owen

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The problem – A great number of pertinent and valuable contributions on the work of boards of education have been made emphasizing more particularly those aspects of establishment and organization, that are subject, more or less, to legislative action, and are consequently beyond control of the immediate board or its members. This study is concerned primarily with those phases of school board activity and relations that may be improved by the collective or individual efforts of the members constituting any board of education. They include the following:

1. Relations with the community.
2. Attitudes toward school administration and control.
3. Cooperation with the …

The Status Of The County Superintendent Of Schools In Kentucky, James Depp

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

It is the purpose of this study to present some of the leading facts concerning the present status of the county superintendents of schools in Kentucky, and also to compare the status of the county superintendent with that of the city superintendent as found by R.E. Stevenson's study of 1934. The same method of procedure is used in this study as was used in the study of the city superintendents in order that a reliable and worth while comparison could be made between the two groups of educational leadrs.

A Study Of The Frequency With Which The Small & Capital Letters Are Used, Vivian Gillespie

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Because of the fact that so little has been done to create a scientific, objective basis for a sound course of study in penmanship, it has long been the desire of the writer to develop some ideas that presented themselves several years ago. It has occurred that there is a real need for a basis of fact, rather than mere personal opinion, in the teaching of penmanship.

While the great pen artists and the great penmanship teachers of the past and present have wrought exceedingly well and have made a wonderful contribution to the improvement of handwriting pedagogy, there still …

School Transportation In Kentucky 1935-36, Thomas Reynolds

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The major purpose of this study is to determine the status of school transportation in Kentucky, with the hope that many of the local problems, conditions, and needs may be discovered, and if not solved, show the need for their solution. The State Department of Education of Kentucky, with Assistant Superintendent of Public Instruction, Gordie Young, as chairman of the committee on transportation, has set up a standard program of transportation for Kentucky. The writer believes the control and regulation of school transportation by the State Department of Education is very desirable from an economical standpoint. This is shown by …

A Comparison Of The Certification Standards For Commercial Teachers In The Different States Of The Union, Lee Rothrock

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

In the present study, the writer has attempted to make an investigation of the problem of the certification of commercial teachers in the secondary school level of the several states in the Union. The study has three purposes:

1. To tabulate the requirements made by the various states for secondary school certification of commercial teachers.
2. To set forth, by the method of comparison and contrast, the central tendencies and the differences that exist in these requirements.
3. To suggest principles and standards to serve as a basis for a general plan for the certification of high school commercial teachers in the United …

A Plan Of Supervision For Paducah Public Schools, Hazel Rigg

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The problem involves the following divisions:

1. To present a study of the present plan of supervision in the Paducah Public Schools.
2. To present a proposed plan of supervision.
3. To suggest means of evaluation of the supervisory program.

Absence, Its Causes, As Found In A Study Of The City Schools Of Biloxi, Mississippi, William Pearson

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This study of non-attendance of the pupils in the city schools of Biloxi, Mississippi, was undertaken to ascertain the reasons for their absence and to determine, if possible, the remedies to be applied.