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Ua61/1 Wku Nursing Class 2009, Wku Nursing Dec 2009

Ua61/1 Wku Nursing Class 2009, Wku Nursing

WKU Archives Records

Members of the 2009 nursing class: Aleia Bow, Mallori Carter, Courtney Garmon, Valerie Geralds, Marguerite McBride, Crystal Reynolds, Leslie Richardson, Casey Sacia and Emily Tabor-Taylor.


Mcconnell, Addison Mitchell "Mitch," Jr., B. 1942 (Sc 2081), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Mcconnell, Addison Mitchell "Mitch," Jr., B. 1942 (Sc 2081), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2081. Letter from U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell to Sue Lynn Stone, Bowling Green, Kentucky, responding to her concerns about cancer research and expressing support for funding the National Institutes of Health.


Mckenney, John Oscar, 1879-1946 (Sc 2122), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Mckenney, John Oscar, 1879-1946 (Sc 2122), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2122. Three notebooks of John Oscar McKenney, a Beaver Dam, Kentucky physician. The books contain notes on physiology and on the characteristics, diagnosis and treatment of illnesses and diseases.


Helping Counselors Develop Relational Competencies When Working With Religious & Spiritual Clients, Dr. Jill D. Duba, Craig Cashwell, Harriet Glosoff Oct 2009

Helping Counselors Develop Relational Competencies When Working With Religious & Spiritual Clients, Dr. Jill D. Duba, Craig Cashwell, Harriet Glosoff

Counseling & Student Affairs Faculty Publications

The professional counselor can describe the similarities and differences between spirituality and religion, including the basic beliefs of various spiritual systems, major world religions, agnosticism and atheism. The professional counselor recognizes that the client's beliefs (or absence of beliefs) about spirituality and/or religion are central to his or her worldview and can influence psychosocial functioning.


Schroeder, Ralph Louis, 1885-1976 (Sc 1971), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2009

Schroeder, Ralph Louis, 1885-1976 (Sc 1971), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1971. Letter, 14 February 1930, from Ralph Louis Schroeder, a physician, to Dorothy Blocher, Owensboro, Kentucky discussing details about automobiles and the furniture and equipment in his office. Also includes a brief biography of Schroeder.


Rash, Otway Watkins, Jr., 1876-1966 (Sc 1970), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2009

Rash, Otway Watkins, Jr., 1876-1966 (Sc 1970), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1970. Medical diplomas and business papers of Otway Watkins Rash, Jr., an Owensboro physician, including deed, U.S. Internal Revenue inventory form for opium and other narcotics, U.S. Treasury Department still registry form, stock certificate, and letters to Mrs. Grace Rash containing family information, especially on her Welsh relatives.


Confidence Intervals For The Ratio Of Two Exponential Means With Applications To Quality Control, James Albert Polcer,Iii Jun 2009

Confidence Intervals For The Ratio Of Two Exponential Means With Applications To Quality Control, James Albert Polcer,Iii

Student Research Conference Select Presentations

We considered the problem of statistical quality control based on the ratio of two population means. We restrict the discussion for two exponential rates, which are commonly used for modeling failure times of components, machines, or systems. Closed form expressions via the moment generation function (MGF) technique will be presented, and numerical examples will be shown using engineering data sets.


Tetzloff, Doris (Fa 444), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2009

Tetzloff, Doris (Fa 444), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 444. Paper: "Folk Cures for Colds, Flu, and Sore Throats" written by Doris Tetzloff for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.


Barclay, David Porter, 1826-1862 (Sc 1914), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2009

Barclay, David Porter, 1826-1862 (Sc 1914), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1504. Dissertation of David P. Barclay, submitted to the University of Nashville for the Doctor of Medicine degree and entitled "Dysentery of Warren and Simpson Counties, Ky., 1854.” He offers his hypothesis about the cause of a dysentery epidemic in 1854 in Simpson and Warren counties in Kentucky.


Hansen, Gregory Alfred (Fa 396), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2009

Hansen, Gregory Alfred (Fa 396), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text of paper (click on "Additional File" below) for Folklife Archives Project 396. Paper: "[Nautilus Center at Lovers Lane Racquetball Club]" written by Gregory Alfred Hansen for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.


Protecting Walden Pond: A Step Towards Defending Ordinary Nature In The United States, Jessie L. Magee Apr 2009

Protecting Walden Pond: A Step Towards Defending Ordinary Nature In The United States, Jessie L. Magee

Student Research Conference Select Presentations

No abstract provided.


Faulkner The Humanist: How His Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech Changed How We Interpret "Barn Burning", Jessie L. Magee Apr 2009

Faulkner The Humanist: How His Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech Changed How We Interpret "Barn Burning", Jessie L. Magee

Student Research Conference Select Presentations

No abstract provided.


Zanders, Roderick (Fa 505), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2009

Zanders, Roderick (Fa 505), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 505. Paper: "Folklore in Football," written by Roderick Zanders for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class, which focuses on folklore elements related to football with emphasis on the Super Bowl.


College Of Health And Human Services International Service Learning Program: Gales Point, Belize, Jordan Norris, Carrierobin Menapace Apr 2009

College Of Health And Human Services International Service Learning Program: Gales Point, Belize, Jordan Norris, Carrierobin Menapace

Impact Belize

No abstract provided.


39th Annual Wku Student Research Conference, Student Research Council, Western Kentucky University Feb 2009

39th Annual Wku Student Research Conference, Student Research Council, Western Kentucky University

Student Research Conference Select Presentations

No abstract provided.


Webb, Frank, 1906-1950 (Sc 1846), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2009

Webb, Frank, 1906-1950 (Sc 1846), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1846. Letter, 3 February 1930, from Frank Webb, a chiropractor in Irvine, Estill County, Kentucky, to an unnamed recipient discussing the death of a Mr. Chaney, a booster of chiropractic treatment.


Wan, Kathleen P. Flynn (Fa 345), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Wan, Kathleen P. Flynn (Fa 345), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Collection 345. Paper: "Kidney Disease and Cultural Conflicts in Medical Treatment" written by Kathleen P. Flynn Wan for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.


Ua3/1/2/1 President's Office-Cherry - Correspondence - General, Wku Archives Jan 2009

Ua3/1/2/1 President's Office-Cherry - Correspondence - General, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

General correspondence regarding Western Kentucky University. Incoming letters are mainly addressed to Henry Hardin Cherry. Responses are made by Cherry and occasionally by faculty and staff. The president's secretary Mattie McLean is the writer for some of the letters signed by Cherry.

Some of Cherry's personal papers are also found in this series most notably those pertaining to his political aspirations and two candidacies for the Kentucky governorship. Copies of outgoing correspondence begin to appear in Box 1, Folder 50.


Ua61/1 Wku Nursing Class 2009, Wku Nursing Jan 2009

Ua61/1 Wku Nursing Class 2009, Wku Nursing

WKU Archives Records

Members of the 2009 nursing class: Lorraine Adler, Tonya Bragg-Underwood, Jenna Bratcher, Crystal Brock, Kathy Brooks, Lisa Burton, Shelia Curry, Donna Embry, Margo Hancock, Laura Harmon, Kim Haynes, Hua-Wen Hsu, Vanessa Lopp, Lisa Marcum, Jennifer McGee, Linda Norton, Michael Pendleton, Yvonne Pfanenstiel, Pam Phelps, Allison Phillips, Brandy Pierce, Elizabeth Price, Lisa Proctor, Susan Redick, Terra Roberts, Martha Ryan, Sally Satterfield, Lori Skaggs, Tequila Staten, Teresa Stidham and Bryn Wells.


Ua94/6/1 Student / Alumni Personal Papers Western Kentucky University Small Collections, Wku Archives Jan 2009

Ua94/6/1 Student / Alumni Personal Papers Western Kentucky University Small Collections, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Small collections of personal papers and oral histories relating to the Western Kentucky University.


Ua60/5 Wku Dental Hygiene Class Of 2009, Wku Dental Hygiene Jan 2009

Ua60/5 Wku Dental Hygiene Class Of 2009, Wku Dental Hygiene

WKU Archives Records

Members of the 2009 dental hygiene class: Erin Johnson, historian; Janet Hughes, secretary; Ellen Kington, vice president; Danielle Cook, president; Kelsea Carney, treasurer; Abigail Hensley historian; Lauren Stephens SADHA representative; Kristin James, class representative; Katie Davidson, class representative; Kimberly Barnes, Heather Brunner, Callie Cline, Holly Dorsey, Kasey England, Amanda Gaddes, Allison Genton, Rebecca Hobbs, Leslie Locke, Lisa Maynard, Ann Marie Nejedly, Jenny Perry, Nikita Powell, Sarah Ramsey and Mandy Stinson.