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Cornette, James Percival, 1908-1986 (Sc 3374), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3374. Letter, 5 June 1956, to WKU faculty member Frances Richards from James P. Cornette, a former colleague and now president of West Texas State College, expressing his appreciation of a recent visit with her. Also includes a 1962 letter to Richards from WKU alumnus and West Texas State College history professor Lowell H. Harrison enclosing a lengthy clipping about Cornette’s recent “Man of the Year” award, and a 1963 speech of Cornette’s on the occasion of the college’s renaming as West Texas State University.

Hardin, John A., B. 1948 (Sc 972), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 972. Paper titled “African American Education in Kentucky: An Overview,” presented at the Kentucky Building, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in observance of Black History Month by history professor John Hardin.

Pearce, John Ed., 1917-2006 (Sc 786), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 786. Photocopy of Louisville Courier-Journal columnist John Ed Pearce’s speech given to the Chamber of
Commerce, Bowling Green, Kentucky on 7 January 1986. He discusses chiefly economic development and public education in Kentucky. Also letter of Pearce
concerning the copy of the speech.

Ua3/3 Society Of Discontent, Kelly Thompson

WKU Archives Records

Speech delivered by former WKU President Kelly Thompson to the Third District Education Association meeting in 1975. Includes note cards and speech.

Ua3/1/4 Henry Cherry Speeches Vol. 5, Part 1, Henry Cherry

WKU Archives Records

WKU President Henry Cherry's speeches from Volume 5. Volume 5 also includes articles and poetry by others. This document includes:

A Proposed Bill & Building
American Citizenship
Dedication of Training School Building
Educational Leadership
Effective Advertising and How to Secure It
Kentucky Agriculture
Looking Through A Crack
Matthews, Mrs. H.R. Our Leader
Paragraph: The Rich Man
Paragraphs
Paragraphs: Education & Patriotism; A Militant Public Statement
Rodes, H. Clifton. Remarks at Meetin of Warren County Society
Tentative Lease of Ogden College
The Greater Kentucky and the Larger Democracy
The Other Thing
Unknown. Review of Education the Basis of Democracy
Wade, Bailey. …