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Ua45/2 Student / Alumni Register, Wku Registrar

WKU Administration Documents

List of students/alumni created by Henry Cherry using index block of a ledger. The ledger does not exist. It is possible that this is a reconstituted list of students/alumni from the Southern Normal School.

Ua45/1 Wksnc Catalog, Rural School Number, Wku Registrar

WKU Administration Documents

Course catalog which includes:

• Faculty
• Announcement
• History of WKU
• How to Secure Free Tuition
• Site for Model Rural School Secured
• Courses of Study
• Rural Teachers' Course
• Advanced Certificate Course
• Regular Normal Course
• Courses in Agriculture
• School of Music
• Lyceum Course 1911-1912
• Educational Items
• Literary Societies and the Moot House of Representatives
• The Summer School
• Expense
• List and Price of Text-Books Used in the Normal

Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. Ii, No. 8, Western Kentucky University

WKU Administration Documents

The Elevator was published by the Western Kentucky State Normal School student body, monthly during the school year between 1909-1916.

Table of Contents:

• Back to Manhood by Gordon Wilson, Opal Taylor and Eva Becker
• Ebon Eyes
• Wanted
• Dead Languages
• The Doctrine of Rest
• Graduates
• Senior Class of 1912
• Jokes
• XchanG
• Clippings
• Athletics
• News
• Oratorical Contest
• Chapel Program

Letter, Wku Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Documents

Letter from Henry Barker to H.H. Cherry regarding death of Cherry's father.

Letter, Wku Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Documents

Letter from Henry Barker to H.H. Cherry regarding honorary degree.

Special Meeting, Wku Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Documents

Minutes of special meeting of WKU Board of Regents regarding construction of Van Meter Hall.

Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. Ii, No. 7, Western Kentucky University

WKU Administration Documents

The Elevator was published by the Western Kentucky State Normal School student body, monthly during the school year between 1909-1916.

Table of Contents:

• Back to Manhood by Gordon Wilson, Opal Taylor and Eva Becker
• Delights of the Simple Life
• Music by Bessie Beck
• Normal Heights
• A Flower Garden by L.F. Carwile
• Western Normal Yells
• Student Loyalty
• The Infinitesimal
• The Dedication
• The Convocation and Dedication by Maude Hurt
• Greetings Given by Students on the Evening of the Dedication, May 5th
• XchanG
• Jokes
• Normal News
• Reception to Citizens
• Music Festival

Meeting, Wku Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Documents

Minutes of WKU Board of Regents meeting.

Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. Ii, No. 6, Western Kentucky University

WKU Administration Documents

The Elevator was published by the Western Kentucky State Normal School student body, monthly during the school year between 1909-1916.

Table of Contents:

• Normal School News
• Alumni by Mattie Reid
• Letter to Glasgow and Southern Normal Alumni by J.R. Alexander
• Literary Notes
• Cleaning-Up Day
• As the Editor Seeth, the Dedication
• The Out-of-Doors
• Spring Fever
• The Rusher vs. the Plodder
• May Issue
• Normal Doings
• The First Spring Outing
• Chapel Echoes
• Exchanges
• A Part Payment on an Owed to Examinations
• What It Means for Some People to Complete a Course in the Normal by P.G. Smith
• Laugh If You Want To

Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. Ii, No. 6, Western Kentucky University

WKU Administration Documents

The Elevator was published by the Western Kentucky State Normal School student body, monthly during the school year between 1909-1916.

Table of Contents:

• The First Chapel by Eva Becker
• A Fairy Story
• The Odor of the Soil
• The Other Fellows
• Musings of Ye Editor
• Have We Gone Up?
• Normal Events Here and There
• Athletics
• Laugh If You Want To

Ua45/1/1 State Normal Bulletin, Vol. 5, No. 2, Wku Registrar

WKU Administration Documents

Course catalog & newsletter:

• Cherry, Henry. Letter to Readers
• The Catalog Number
• The Students’ Edition of the Bulletin
• School of Music
• Course of Study
• School of Music
• Expenses – Tuition, Board, Frisbie Hall
• Editorials
• The Elevator

Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. Ii, No. 5, Western Kentucky University

WKU Administration Documents

The Elevator was published by the Western Kentucky State Normal School student body, monthly during the school year between 1909-1916.

Table of Contents:

• The Mid-Winter Opening by Mary Crutcher
• The Call Answered by Ella Judd
• Thoughts at the Tomb of Washington by Mattie Morgan
• Patriotism by Finley Grise
• Exchanges
• Editorials
• Seniors and Juniors
• Marriages
• Oddities
• Personals
• Athletics
• Letter to the Editor from R.W. Everett

Contract, Wku Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Documents

Agreement Relative to Department Domestic Science and Arts between WKU Board of Regents and the Peabody Fund.

Herman Donovan's Registration & Transcript, Wku Registrar

2015: Cherry Statue Time Capsule

Registration form and transcript of Herman Donovan the first student to register at WKU. He went on to be president of Eastern Kentucky University and the University of Kentucky.

Ua97/3 Admissions / Student Rolls Register, Ogden College Registrar

WKU Administration Documents

Admissions / student rolls register created by the Ogden College Registrar for the years 1894-1911.

Includes name, parent/guardian, residence, boarding place, entrance examination scores, remarks, some entries have class, room, schedule instead of entrance exam scores.

• Candidates for Admission 1894-1906
• Declamation Grades 1894-1906
• Enrollment Statistics 1883-1906 p. 96
• Honor Roll 1894-1906
• Reports to Commission of Education
• 1897-1898 pp. 52-53
• 1899 p. 68
• 1900 p. 86
• 1901 p. 112
• 1902 p. 128
• 1903 p. 137
• Student Rolls 1894-1907; 1910-1911

Ua3/1/5/3 Will You Help? / Catechism, Western Kentucky University, Henry Cherry

WKU Administration Documents

Broadside printed to raise funds for construction of Western Kentucky University. Obverse is the Plan for the Campus of the State Normal School in the Western District of Kentucky at Bowling Green by Henry Wright. Reverse is "Catechism" by Henry Cherry which was read at the first chapel exercises February 6, 1911.

Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. Ii, No. 4, Western Kentucky University

WKU Administration Documents

The Elevator was published by the Western Kentucky State Normal School student body, monthly during the school year between 1909-1916.

Table of Contents:

• Sonnet to President H.H. Cherry on Moving WKSNS to Normal Heights
• Moving Day
• Lady Macbeth's Confession by Maud Hurt
• Resolution in honor of G.C. Morris
• The Vision on the Hill by Nellie Smith
• Editorials
• Exchanges
• Red Letter Days
• Pleasantries
• In and About the Normal
• Literary Society Notes
• Personals

Ua1b3/7 Meeting Minutes, Wku Faculty

WKU Administration Documents

Minutes of WKU faculty meetings for 1911 from Books 1 and 2. The books have slight variations. See also Book 1 Index.

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

WKU Administration Documents

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 …

Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. Ii, No. 3, Western Kentucky University

WKU Administration Documents

The Elevator was published by the Western Kentucky State Normal School student body, monthly during the school year between 1909-1916.

Table of Contents:

• The Memory of the Violets by Della Langston
• Christmas Thoughts
• Christmas Greetings by Nellie Smith
• Our Santas cartoon
• Leiper's Christmas cartoon
• About the Normal
• The Colonel is My Teacher by Blanche Vanmeter
• Ars Dicendi
• The Christmas Elevator
• A Change of Printers
• The Short Story
• Our Story
• Ode to L. of E. by Alfred Crabb
• The Teacher's Work by L.F. Carwile
• Glad Tidings
• First District Association
• Exchanges

Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. Ii, No. 2, Western Kentucky University

WKU Administration Documents

The Elevator was published by the Western Kentucky State Normal School student body, monthly during the school year between 1909-1916.

Table of Contents:

• The Alumni Address of 1910
• Thanksgiving by Gordon Wilson
• Editorials
• Class of 1911 photograph
• Institute Notes
• The Chestnut Hunt
• A Sequence
• Normal News
• Joseph Tynes, obituary
• Halloween Festivities

Ua45/1/1 State Normal Bulletin, Vol. 5, No. 1, Wku Registrar

WKU Administration Documents

Course catalog which includes:

• Cherry, Henry. Interesting Recent Developments
• Faculty
• Announcement
• History of WKU
• Course of Study
• School of Music
• Cherry, Henry. The Teacher, the Normal Schools, the Common School System, the State of Kentucky
• Expenses
• General School Information
• List of Text-Books Used in the Normal

Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. Ii, No. 1, Western Kentucky University

WKU Administration Documents

The Elevator was published by the Western Kentucky State Normal School student body, monthly during the school year between 1909-1916.

Table of Contents:

• Governor [Edwin] Norris
• Commencement Week by Gordon Wilson
• A Library Note
• Class of 1910 photograph
• The Opening
• Training School Department
• The School of Expression
• The Normal Farm
• The School of Music
• The First Recital
• Faculty Notes
• Editorials
• Normal News

Ua25 Lease To Kentucky Board Of Health, Wku Finance & Administration

WKU Administration Documents

Contract between WKU and the Kentucky Board of Health to lease rooms in Recitation Hall for four years.

Contract, Wku Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Documents

Contract to rent third story right rear wing of Recitation Hall to the State Board of Health of Kentucky and a laboratory in the right front wing.

Meeting, Wku Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Documents

Minutes of WKU Board of Regents meeting purchase of property, Conn Linn's resignation, hiring faculty members and utilities.

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

WKU Administration Documents

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 …

Ua99/9 Southern Exponent Of Business Education, Vol. Iv, No. 1, Bowling Green Business University

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Old Students
• Qualifications & Qualities
• Does It Pay?
• Accomplishment or Asset?
• Commencement – Class of 1910 (BGBU)
• City Officials Welcome Students
• Kodak Contest
• Our Competitors
• Lyceum Course
• Reading Room
• Over 1,500 Boarders
• Here is the Reason
• Repairs & Betterment
• Can I Get a Position?
• Let’s Suppose a Case
• The Trade-Mark
• To Serve is to Bless
• Eliminate the Parasite
• Inspiring Records of Successful Young People
• Banking
• The Gulf States Excursion
• Five Governors
• Commerce Course
• An Open Door
• Certain …

Ua45/1/1 State Normal Bulletin, Vol. 4, No. 4, Wku Registrar

WKU Administration Documents

Course catalog & newsletter:

• Cherry, Henry. Letter to Reader
• Course of Study
• Life Certificate Class, 1910
• Cherry, Henry. Educational Greeting from the Western Kentucky State Normal School
• The Summer School
• The Elevator
• Course in Agriculture
• Professor Franz Strahm

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

WKU Administration Documents

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