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Ua1c11/128 Lucian Flora Photo Collection, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Photographs and postcards removed from Lucian Flora's World War II scrapbook.

Ua94/5/6 Lucian Flora Student/Alumni Papers, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Scrapbook and memoirs created by alumni Lucian Flora of Smiths Grove, Kentucky of his activities as a soldier in World War II. Flora saw action through North Africa and Italy from 1941 to 1945.

Farley, Seth Thomas, Jr., 1917-1999 (Mss 617), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 617. Correspondence, documents, news clippings and ephemera from Seth Thomas Farley, Jr., a life-long educator. This collection includes a good deal of information about Farley’s teaching career prior to his work as a professor at WKU, his involvement in organizations that fought alcoholism and gambling (particularly the lottery in Kentucky), his church work, and his service on a committee to choose a federal magistrate for the western district of Kentucky. The collection includes an entire box of assessment related material related to Fort Knox Dependent Schools in the mid-1960s.

Winchel, Beulah Rhea, 1912-2015 (Mss 609), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 609. Correspondence, photographs, travel materials, genealogy, and other personal papers of Beulah R. Winchel, a Breckinridge County, Kentucky, native and a teacher and librarian who served in Japan, Germany and France with the U.S. Army Special Services and the Department of Defense Dependents Schools.

Myers, Rodes Kirby, 1900-1960 (Mss 567), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 567. Correspondence, speeches and scrapbooks related to the life of Rodes Kirby Myers, Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky from 1939 to 1943. Includes clippings and speeches from political campaigns. Also includes three scrapbooks of clippings related to the trial of Henry Herman Denhardt for the murder of Verna Garr Taylor in 1936.

Brite, Henry Dearing, 1906-1976 (Mss 532), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding Aid only for Manuscripts Collections 532. Letters, programs, invitations, photographs and other political and social mementoes of Elizabeth Brite and her husband Henry, collected primarily during their years in Washington, D.C. when Elizabeth was secretary to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s press secretary, Jonathan W. Daniels.

Chelf, Frank Leslie, 1907-1982 (Mss 492), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 492. Correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, audiotapes, film and miscellaneous material relating primarily to the political career of Democrat Frank L. Chelf, who represented Kentucky’s Fourth District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1944-1966. Includes Chelf’s voting record and bills, research and speeches related to his legislative interests.

Bundles For America - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2813), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2813. Meeting minutes of Bundles for America, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from 24 January to 14 March 1945. Includes a draft thank-you letter to a sponsor summarizing the organization’s accomplishments since 1941; also includes a 1943 clipping outlining the history and work of the organization in knitting garments, salvaging metal and clothing, and making up toiletry kits for British and American soldiers and their families.

Hodges, Ida Leighton, 1885-1949 (Sc 1025), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1028. Letters commending Hodges for a variety of civic activities, including her work as coordinator of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and Civil Works Administration in Bowling Green, Kentucky during the 1930s.

American Association Of University Women - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 727), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Mansucripts Small Collection 727. Letters, 1949-52 (14), written to Sibyl Stonecipher, WKU professor, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from a Displaced
Person in Germnay, Aina Raits, whose family was adopted by the Bowling Green Branch. Letters relating the same, 1949, 1976 (2), and photos of Raits’ family (2).

Baird, Nancy Disher, B. 1937 (Mss 415), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 415. This collection includes eight interviews with various people around the world that were associated with the United Service Organizations, Inc. (USO) during World War II. Interviews were conducted by Nancy Disher Baird.

Phelps, Lilburn, 1870-1956 (Sc 699), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 699. Papers of Lilburn Phelps, a lawyer and State Representative of Jamestown, Ky., which chiefly relate to his professions. They mainly include speeches and letters to the editor that he penned. See Scrapbook Collection for additional material.

Rotary Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 350), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 350. Items related to the Rotary Club of Bowling Green, Kentucky, as well as Rotary International. The minutes, correspondence, newsletters, resolutions, reports, clippings, and photographs highlight the organization's many years of service projects and civic involvement.

Chelf, Owen Ross, 1918-1997 (Mss 151), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 151. Papers chiefly of Owen Ross Chelf, a native of Lebanon, Kentucky, with most of the collection focusing on his World War II army service in Europe and his avid interest in muskie fishing.

Ua1b2/1 War & Wku, Kim Purvis

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

A paper regarding how WKU was affected by war during the 20th century, includes an overview of protest movements and underground newspapers in the late 1960's.

Interview With Dan Ray Stone, 1921-2007 (Fa 190), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Dan Ray Stone conducted by Sheryl Diane Reed on 7 November 1990. From folk studies student project titled “The War at Home: World War II and Its Effects on Bowling Green, KY,” concerning the effects of World War II on local people in Bowling Green, Kentucky and the home front.

Interview With Doris Augusta Daniels, 1912-1998 (Fa 190), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Doris Augusta Daniels conducted by Sheryl Diane Reed on 30 October 1990. From folk studies student project titled “The War at Home: World War II and Its Effects on Bowling Green, KY,” concerning the effects of World War II on local people in Bowling Green, Kentucky and the home front.

Interview With Virginia Earl (Venable) Pearson, 1919-1990 (Fa 190), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Virginia Earl (Venable) Pearson conducted by Sheryl Diane Reed on 28 March 1990. From folk studies student project titled “The War at Home: World War II and Its Effects on Bowling Green, KY,” concerning the effects of World War II on local people in Bowling Green, Kentucky and the home front.

Interview With Mary Bryant (Benton) Fitts Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Mary Brant (Benton) Fitts conducted by Karen Owen for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Fitts discusses her life and times, including information about growing up in Utica and Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky, her children, social life and customs, race relations, World War II, and sundry other topics. Mrs. Fitts was a housewife and mother of two.

Interview With Dora Landrum Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Dora Landrum conducted by Kevin Eans for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Landrum discusses her life and times, including information about the Great Depression, how the New Deal programs affected Ohio County, Kentucky, motion pictures, radio, World War II, Pearl Harbor, the atomic bomb, rationing, her running for State Senate in 1949, and Democratic politics.

Interview With Allyene Gregory Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Allyene Gregory conducted by Steve Vied for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Gregory discusses her life and times, including information about growing up in Sorgho, Daviess County, Kentucky, education, childhood games, her father's farm, African Americans, social customs and historic events in the community, as well as her teaching career.

Interview With Lena Stolsworth Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Lena Stolsworth conducted by Kim Parson for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Stolsworth discusses her life and times, including information about growing up on a farm in Ohio County, Kentucky, education, social life and customs, floods, the Great Depression and World War II.

Interview With Gayle Carver Regarding His Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Gayle Carver conducted by Joe Adams for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Carver discusses her life and times, including information about growing up in Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, education, businesses, childhood chores, his phonograph record collection, World War II, the 1937 flood, the Great Depression, the first automobile and airplane he remembered and information about popular music of the era.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 52, No. 20, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Pence, Carter. Toppers Host Middle Tennessee State University in 43^rd Homecoming
• Fletcher, Barry. First WKU Homecoming Observed Nov. 5, 1927
• Groves, Cindy. Students Centers Have Always Stressed Hospitality
• Madison, Stephanie. Homecoming Has Lot to Offer
• Hayes, Judy. Early Catalog’s Worry: School’s Moral Safety
• Register, Mona. College Newspaper Traces Development of Homecoming
• Turner, Tom. Nipped: Guy Newcom Remembers 1950 Tilt
• Clayton, Craig & Dennis Tomek. Jimmy Feix aka Botts and Butch Gilbert Team Up to Defeat Maroons
• Watson, Brad. Beanies Are Freshmen
• Hilltoppers Quartet Revive …

Ua94/5/6 Lucian Flora Scrapbook - Part 1, Lucian Flora

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

First half of World War II scrapbook compiled by Lucian Flora of Smiths Grove, Kentucky. He attended Bowling Green Business University from 1938 to 1940. This scrapbook contains materials regarding the campaigns through North Africa and Italy. Also included are items related to his life in Affinity, WV prior to the war. There are post cards and photographs of Columbus, Ohio; Washington, DC; Baltimore, Maryland; Alexandria, Virginia; and Ireland.

See second half of the scrapbook here.

Ua94/5/5 Scrapbook 1, Rex Toothman

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Scrapbook created by Rex Toothman from 1937-1955. Contains clippings, programs, tickets, greeting cards and a variety of other memorabilia related to his hometown of Barrackville, West Virginia, the Bowling Green Business University, Toppers, Pi Tau Nu and Alpha Sigma fraternities.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 23, No. 3, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

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

• Veterans Views
• Alumni Flashes
• Faculty Notes
• Society Page
• Kentucky Building News
• Spikes, Cleats & Sneakers
• To the W Club
• Sound Off! – ROTC
• Book Marks

This issue contains articles:

• Alumni Flock to Hill Once More
• Vets Wives Believe Adage About the Way to a Man’s Heart
• Education Week Begins Monday
• Western Senior Places Second - Matilda Price
• Concert Drive Ends Tomorrow
• Mason, Pat. Never a Dull Moment at the College Switchboard
• Pearce, Bob. Crack Pershing Rifles Unit is Reactivated
• Western Named Map Depository
• Vincent, Bert. Vincent …

Ua94/5/5 Scrapbook Ii, Rex Toothman

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Scrapbook created by Rex Toothman from 1940 to 1946. Contains clippings, cards, correspondence, graduation programs, theatrical programs, church bulletins related to Bowling Green Business University, U.S. Navy and World War II.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 22, No. 5, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

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

• Hilltopics
• Faculty Notes
• Alumni Notes
• Society – Personals
• From the Press Box
• The Service Column
• Alumni Flashes
• The Chapel Hour
• Sharps & Flats
• Accidentals
• Looking Backward
• Kentucky Building News
• Book Marks
• Training School Notes
• Alumni Flashes
• Dear Ma
• News from the Alumni

This issue contains articles:

• Music Head Accepts Position With UCLA Staff – John Vincent
• Atomic Energy Disscussed – Lyle Dawson
• Dalles Frantz Performance Initiates Concert Series
• Two to be Granted Baccalureate Degree – Anna Adams, Marion Miller
• Tour Planned by Judson Griffin
• Christmas Program …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 22, No. 4, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

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

• Hilltopics
• Faculty Notes
• Alumni Notes
• Society – Personals
• From the Press Box
• The Service Column
• Alumni Flashes
• The Chapel Hour
• Sharps & Flats
• Accidentals
• Looking Backward
• Kentucky Building News
• Book Marks
• Training School Notes
• Alumni Flashes
• Dear Ma
• News from the Alumni

This issue contains articles:

• Third District Education Association Supports Retention of Tax
• Founders’ Day is Observed
• Walter Nalbach Rejoins Industrial Arts Department
• Lyle Dawson to Speak on Atomic Energy
• Reactivation of Advanced ROTC
• Pianist to Open Concert Series – Dalles Frantz
• First Student Recital …