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Ua12/2/1 Magazine, Wku Student Affairs Dec 1986

Ua12/2/1 Magazine, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

Special edition of the College Heights Herald contains articles:

  • Harris, Carla. The Cellar
  • Peck, Todd. Making a Joyful Noise – Cockriel Family


Ua68/13/4 Bowling Green, Vol. 7, No. 1, Kelly Thompson Chapter, Public Relations Student Society Of America Oct 1986

Ua68/13/4 Bowling Green, Vol. 7, No. 1, Kelly Thompson Chapter, Public Relations Student Society Of America

Student Organizations

Magazine produced by senior seminar class in public relations with the Kelly Thompson Chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America and students in the WKU Department of Journalism.

Regular features include:

  • Reflections
  • Business
  • Art
  • Community Service
  • Reminiscing
  • Curiosities
  • Entertainment

This issue includes articles:

  • Gray, Beth. Caring Comes Home - Hospice
  • Hornback, Todd. Alcoholics Anonymous: Finding a Better Way of Life
  • McCoy, Steve. Area Underground Shared by Few - Cave & Karst
  • McCormick, Rebecca. Architecture: History Lines the Streets
  • McCormick, Rebecca. Landmark: Preservation & More
  • Quinn, Paula. Madame Kennedy: Working with the Problem at Hand


Interview With Kelcy Driskill (Fa 35), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 1986

Interview With Kelcy Driskill (Fa 35), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Kelcy Driskell conducted by Amy Kitchens on 26 September 1986. From folk studies student project with an interview with Kelcy Driskell concerning agriculture in Warren County, Kentucky.


Interview With Irene Taylor Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 1986

Interview With Irene Taylor Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Irene Taylor conducted by Christopher Carey for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." In this brief interview Taylor discusses a general store in Hancock County, Kentucky called the Duncan store as well as one-room schools and the consolidation of schools. She also mentions the Chestnut Grove school in Hancock County.


Interview With Mittie Dame Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 1986

Interview With Mittie Dame Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Mittie Dame conducted by Judi Hetrick for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Dame discusses her life and times including information about growing up in Calhoun, McLean County, Kentucky, her early marriage, entertainment, rural electrification, radios, refrigerators, social life and customs, Halloween pranks, moonshining, and farming.


Interview With Oda Shouse, Sr. And Clara Shouse Regarding Their Lives (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 1986

Interview With Oda Shouse, Sr. And Clara Shouse Regarding Their Lives (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Oda Shouse, Sr. and Clara Shouse conducted by Keith Smith for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Mr. Shouse does most of the speaking. He discusses his life and times including information about floods, the Great Depression, tobacco farming, rural medicine, rural electrification, automobiles and telephones.


Interview With Mary Bryant (Benton) Fitts Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 1986

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 Aug 1986

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 Gwendolyn Johnston Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 1986

Interview With Gwendolyn Johnston Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Gwendolyn Johnston conducted by Keith Smith for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Johnston discusses her life and times, including information about growing up in West Louisville, Kentucky, education, games, a tornado that struck Louisville in the 1890s, automobiles, the Ku Klux Klan, Ronald Wilson Reagan, and parochial schools.


Interview With Allyene Gregory Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 1986

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 Lattie Edds And Essie Thomason Regarding Their Lives (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 1986

Interview With Lattie Edds And Essie Thomason Regarding Their Lives (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Lattie Edds and Essie Thomason conducted by Judi Hetrick for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." They discuss their life and times, including information about growing up in McLean County and Hancock County, Kentucky, social life and customs, weaving, childhood chores and games, teachers and teaching, one-room schools, farms and farming, courtship, televisions, radios, the Great Depression, floods, and influenza.


Interview With Lena Stolsworth Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 1986

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 Otis & Essie Stevens Regarding Their Lives (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 1986

Interview With Otis & Essie Stevens Regarding Their Lives (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Essie (Crawford) Stevens and Otis Stevens conducted by Charlotte Postlewaite for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." The Stevens discuss their life and times, including information about growing up in Ohio County, Kentucky, education, one-room schools, farms and farming, teaching in a one-room school, food preservation and preparation, laundering, death, telephones and radios.


Gregory, Corinne Taylor, B. 1904 (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 1986

Gregory, Corinne Taylor, B. 1904 (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Corinne Taylor Gregory conducted by Charlotte Postlewaite for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Gregory discusses her life and times, including information about growing up in Ohio County, Kentucky, the Great Depression, horse racing, company stores, coal towns, courtship, and social life and customs.


Interview With Charlie Earl Coy Regarding His Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 1986

Interview With Charlie Earl Coy Regarding His Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Charlie Earl Coy conducted by Keith Smith for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Coy discusses his life and times, including information about his childhood in Daviess County, Kentucky, farms and farming, the Great Depression, tobacco, social life and customs, airplanes, radios, television, tractors and other farm equipment, women's suffrage and influenza.


Interview With Gayle Carver Regarding His Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 1986

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 - Magazine, Wku Student Affairs Apr 1986

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald - Magazine, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

Special magazine edition of the College Heights Herald:

  • Meehan, Mary. Adjust: The Nearly 390 Refugees from Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam Struggle to Adjust to New Life in Bowling Green
  • Sullivan, Sheila. State Theater Gets Religion
  • Marty Deputy is Mom to 390 Refugees


Ua68/13/4 Bowling Green, Vol. 6, No. 2, Kelly Thompson Chapter, Public Relations Student Society Of America Apr 1986

Ua68/13/4 Bowling Green, Vol. 6, No. 2, Kelly Thompson Chapter, Public Relations Student Society Of America

Student Organizations

Magazine produced by senior seminar class in public relations with the Kelly Thompson Chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America and students in the WKU Department of Journalism.

Regular features include:

  • Reflections
  • Business
  • Art
  • Community Service
  • Reminiscing
  • Curiosities
  • Entertainment

This issue includes articles:

  • Schabel, Christine & Robert Cook. Beech Bend Then
  • Combs, Susan. Making Plans to Last a Lifetime
  • Dickerson, Cynthia. Latching on to Communities - Latch Key Children
  • Jones, LaMont. Romanza Johnson: What's Next?


Horn, Sandra (Simunaci), B. 1946 (Fa 125), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 1986

Horn, Sandra (Simunaci), B. 1946 (Fa 125), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid, full-text scan of paper, and interview (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 125. Interview with psychic practitioner, Terry Langford of Bowling Green, Kentucky, discussing supernatural occurrences in the Kentucky Building at Western Kentucky University. Includes attachments.


Roberts, Lynne (Fa 128), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 1986

Roberts, Lynne (Fa 128), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 128. Pictorial essay about the art of Bertha T. Skaggs, dollmaker and quilter of Hart County, Kentucky.


Eans, Kevin, B. 1964 (Fa 127), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 1986

Eans, Kevin, B. 1964 (Fa 127), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 127. History of "Highland," a house built in the 1890s by the Monarch family of Owensboro, Kentucky. This Queen Anne-style house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald - Magazine, Wku Student Affairs Feb 1986

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald - Magazine, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

Special magazine edition of the College Heights Herald.

  • Carlton, Chad. Avery’s – O.L. Avery’s Barber Shop
  • Dezern, Craig. Oh, Brother
  • Lawrence, Lucretia. Good Evening Sportfans - Wes Strader
  • Persistent Employees Recall Their Years of Service – Jimmy Feix, John Minton, Raymond Cravens, Manuel Wilkerson


Industrial Resources: Trigg County - Cadiz, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 1986

Industrial Resources: Trigg County - Cadiz, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Trigg County

"Resources for Economic development: Cadiz, Kentucky" prepared by the Kentucky Department of Economic Development, Division of Research and Planning in cooperation with the Cadiz-Trigg County Chamber of Commerce and the Trigg County Industrial Authority, 1986. The report includes, but is not limited to, information about: population, labor market, local manufacturing, transportation, utilities, fuel, water, sewage, industrial sites, local government and services, taxes, education and health facilitates, housing, communications, recreation, natural resources, markets and climate.


Industrial Resources: Spencer County - Taylorsville, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 1986

Industrial Resources: Spencer County - Taylorsville, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Spencer County

"Resources for Economic Development: Taylorsville, Kentucky" prepared by the Kentucky Department of Economic Development, Division of Research and Planning in cooperation with the Taylorsville-Spencer County Chamber of Commerce, 1986. The report includes, but is not limited to, information about: population, labor market, local manufacturing, transportation, utilities, fuel, water, sewage, industrial sites, local government and services, taxes, educational and health facilities, housing, communication, recreation, natural resources, markets, and climate.


Industrial Resources: Nelson County - Bardstown, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 1986

Industrial Resources: Nelson County - Bardstown, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Nelson County

"Resources for Economic Development: Bardstown, Kentucky" prepared by the Kentucky Department of Economic Development, Division of Research and Planning in cooperation with the Bardstown Industrial Development Corporation and the Bardstown/Nelson County Chamber of Commerce, 1986. The report includes, but is not limited to, information about: population, labor market, local manufacturing, transportation, utilities, fuel, water, sewage, industrial sites, local government and services, taxes, educational and health facilities, housing, communication, recreation, natural resources, markets, and climate.


Industrial Resources: Hardin County - Radcliff, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 1986

Industrial Resources: Hardin County - Radcliff, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Hardin County

"Resources for Economic Development: Radcliff, Kentucky" prepared by the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development, Division of Research and Planning, and the Radcliff – North Hardin Chamber of Commerce, 1986. The report includes, but is not limited to, information about: population, labor market, local manufacturing, transportation, utilities, fuel, water, sewage, industrial sites, local government and services, taxes, educational and health facilities, housing, communication, recreation, natural resources, markets, and climate.


Industrial Resources: Hardin County - Elizabethtown, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 1986

Industrial Resources: Hardin County - Elizabethtown, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Hardin County

"Resources for Economic Development: Elizabethtown, Kentucky" prepared by the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development, Division of Research and Planning, and the Elizabethtown – Hardin County Chamber of Commerce, 1986. The report includes, but is not limited to, information about: population, labor market, local manufacturing, transportation, utilities, fuel, water, sewage, industrial sites, local government and services, taxes, educational and health facilities, housing, communication, recreation, natural resources, markets, and climate.


Industrial Resources: Harlan County, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 1986

Industrial Resources: Harlan County, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Harlan County

"Resources for Economic Development: Harlan County, Kentucky" prepared by the Kentucky Department of Economic Development, Division of Research and Planning, and the Concerned Citizens of Harlan County, 1986. The report includes, but is not limited to, information about: population, labor market, local manufacturing, transportation, utilities, fuel, water, sewage, industrial sites, local government and services, taxes, educational and health facilities, housing, communication, recreation, natural resources, markets, and climate.


Industrial Resources - Floyd County - Prestonsburg, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 1986

Industrial Resources - Floyd County - Prestonsburg, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Floyd County

"Resources for Economic Development: Prestonsburg Kentucky" prepared by the Kentucky Department of Economic Development, Division of Research and Planning, and the Floyd County Chamber of Commerce, 1986. The report includes, but is not limited to, information about: population, labor market, local manufacturing, transportation, utilities, fuel, water, sewage, industrial sites, local government and services, taxes, educational and health facilities, housing, communication, recreation, natural resources, markets, and climate.


Industrial Resources: Rowan County - Morehead, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 1986

Industrial Resources: Rowan County - Morehead, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Rowan County

"Resources for Economic Development: Morehead, Kentucky" prepared by the Kentucky Department of Economic Development, Division of Research and Planning in cooperation with the Morehead-Rowan County Chamber of Commerce and the City of Morehead, 1986. The report includes, but is not limited to, information about: population, labor market, local manufacturing, transportation, utilities, duel, water, sewage, industrial sites, local government and services, taxes, educational and health facilities, housing, communication, recreation, natural resources, markets, and climate.