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Ua3/1/1 President's Report, Wku President's Office - Cherry

WKU Archives Records

President Henry Cherry's report to Kentucky Superintendent of Public Instruction Ellsworth Regenstein. Includes review of curriculum and certificates granted.

Ua45/2 Student / Alumni Register, Wku Registrar

WKU Archives Records

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 Archives Records

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. 9, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

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

Table of Contents:

• Our Folks
• School of Expression -- A Summary by Maude Hurt
• Kit Kat Klub
• Juniors
• Seniors
• XchanG
• Book Reviews
• Editorials
• Report from the Walking Trip to Mammoth Cave, June 8-13, 1911 by Lillian Winkler
• Incidnets of the Cave Trip by Elizabeth Davis
• Cave Formations
• Normal Heights
• Grammar 3 by Lorene Colley
• Rainy Days
• L'Allegro and Il Penseroso by Finley Grise
• A Dream of School Days by Amy Longest
• The Land of To-Morrow by W.L. Matthews
• The Play: …

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

WKU Archives Records

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

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

WKU Archives Records

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

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

WKU Archives Records

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 Archives Records

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 Archives Records

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 Archives Records

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

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

WKU Archives Records

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.

Ua1b3/7 Meeting Minutes, Wku Faculty

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

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

WKU Archives Records

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

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

WKU Archives Records

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 Archives Records

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

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

WKU Archives Records

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. 2, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

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

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

WKU Archives Records

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 Archives Records

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

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

WKU Archives Records

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 …

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

WKU Archives Records

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 Archives Records

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

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

WKU Archives Records

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

Table of Contents:

• Valedictory by Nancy Shehan
• Clark by E.H. White
• The Crying Need of the Public School System by E.H. Turner
• Married at Gallatin
• The Sophomores
• The Juniors
• The Seniors
• Senior Class 1910-11
• Echoes from Mammoth Cave by Hunter Gingles and Katesie Bailey
• Normal Lights
• Editorials
• The University of Wisconsin by Will Taylor
• Two Ways of Telling a Story
• Foreword by G.C. Morris
• Moving Day Cartoon
• The Trip to Richmond
• The KEA
• De Pilae Quodam Ludo by Henry Wesley …

Ua3/1/2/1 Correspondence - Eastern Kentucky University, Wku President's Office

WKU Archives Records

Documents housed in Box 1 Folder 7 of President Henry Cherry’s Correspondence, General File regarding the relationship between WKU and Eastern Kentucky University. This file is comprised entirely of letters, the majority from EKU’s president Ruric Roark.

• Roark, Ruric N. to Henry Cherry 1/25/1907 – congratulations on creation of WKU, questions about curriculum and faculty
• Roark, Ruric N. to Henry Cherry 6/3/1907 – Kentucky Education Association resolution re: diplomas
• Roark, Ruric N. to Henry Cherry 6/7/1907 – appropriations for EKU
• Roark, Ruric N. to Henry Cherry 6/24/1907 – curriculum and faculty
• Roark, Ruric N. to Henry Cherry 7/25/1907 – diplomas …

Ua45/1/1 State Normal Bulletin, Vol. 4, No. 3, Wku Registrar

WKU Archives Records

Course catalog & newsletter:

• Courses of Study
• Western Kentucky State Normal School
• Cherry, Henry. An Educational Creed
• The Alumni Association
• Reduced Railroad Rates for Summer School
• Cherry, Henry. Editorial
• Dr. Len G. Broughton
• Faculty
• Regents
• Commencement Exercises

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

WKU Archives Records

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

Table of Contents:

• Louisiana State University by James Knoll
• Valparaiso University by Frank Turner
• The Oratorical Contest by Hollie Finn
• The Ball Game
• Phantasies
• A Monologue by Mr. Byrn
• Book Review
• Ohio County by E.Y. Allen
• Illinois by Madge Hunter
• Livingston County by Jake Farris
• Eastern District by H.M. Guffey
• Simpson County by Leland Bunch
• Breckinridge County by James Basham
• Meade County by J.G. Board
• McCracken County by Margaret Acker
• Daviess County by G.C. Morris
• Bullitt County by Ina Foster …

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

WKU Archives Records

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

Table of Contents:

• Vanderbilt's Educational Atmosphere by O.S. Guy
• The University of Georgia by P.M. Davis
• Memoirs of an Old Timer
• The Life Class by Nellie Smith
• Echoes from the Diamond
• As Told by the Guide
• A Veracious Melodrama Entitled "On to Athens"
• A Word Concerning the Libraries by Florence Ragland and Mary Jarboe
• Editorials
• Exchanges
• Smilets
• Normal Lights

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

WKU Archives Records

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 Chosen People by Melvin Judd
• Some Harvard Impressions by A.M. Stickles
• Memoirs of an Old-Timer
• Retribution
• Chapel Influence by C.J. Bibb
• The Moot Court
• Editorials
• Lamentations
• Book Reviews
• Exchanges
• Weather Forecasts of the Faculty
• Notes from the Societies [Alumni News]
• Library Notice
• Modern Philosophy
• Near to Grins
• Normal Lights

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

WKU Archives Records

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 Other Side by C.M. Sammons
• A Woodland Playground by S.C. Coots
• Extracts from Recent Finals by J.B. Johns
• The Negro Question by G.C. Morris
• Christmas Sentiment
• My Impressions of Yale by H.M. Denton
• Welcome (To the New Students) by Nancy Shehan
• Editorials
• A Tragic Tragedy, Entitled "The Breaking of the Golden Bowl"
• At Which to Grin
• Exchanges
• Personals

Ua3/1/4 Western Kentucky State Normal School, Henry Cherry

WKU Archives Records

Speech written by WKU president Henry Cherry regarding WKU. He cites enrollment statistics and the role of education in democracy.