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United Way Of Southern Kentucky - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 687), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 687. Minutes, financial documents, correspondence, promotional material, and committee reports related to United Way of Southern Kentucky, a re-granting agency that supports a number of social, educational and charitable organizations in south central Kentucky.

American Association Of University Women - Danville, Kentucky (Mss 681), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 687. Records of the Danville branch of the American Association of University Women, including minutes, president’s reports, newsletters, historical information, programming materials and other miscellaneous items. Also includes more limited material about the state and regional divisions of the AAUW.

Bowling Green Woman's Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 601), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 601. Minutes, membership lists, publications, press books, event programs, and other records of the Bowling Green Woman’s Club, a civic organization in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes some materials relating to its affiliation with the Kentucky Federation of Women’s Clubs.

Sons Of The American Revolution, Kentucky Society (Mss 541), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 541. Correspondence, minutes, financial papers and program material related to the Kentucky Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, chiefly for the period from 1969 to 1997. Of special interest are papers related to the Society’s Life Member Trust Fund.

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.

To Make A Better World Tomorrow: St. Clair Drake And The Quakers Of Pendle Hill, Andrew Rosa

History Faculty Publications

This article is part of a larger project by the author to record St. Clair Drake’s contribution to the black radical tradition. Here he examines Drake’s involvement with the Quakers in the early years of the Depression. Drawing on writings in African American and Popular Front periodicals of the time, it considers how a Quaker community shaped Drake’s identity as an intellectual activist and how his encounter suggests the ways in which black intellectuals engaged with non-violence as a philosophy and strategy for social change before he civil rights movement. Drake’s participation in non-violent campaigns for workers’ rights, world peace …

Ferguson, Lynne Marrs (Hammer), B. 1956 (Fa 570), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text (click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 570. Paper: [Examination of a Speech Titled "Shake Rag Revisited"] written by Lynne Marrs Hammer Ferguson for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class. The speech was delivered on 21 October 2004 by Herbert Oldham at the dedication of a historical marker in the neighborhood.

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.

Severance Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 360), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 360. Minutes and yearbooks of the Severance Club, a women's literary club in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 15, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

Bowling Green, Kentucky - Associations (Sc 1475), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1475. Draft of an article entitled "Association Building in America, 1850-1920" written by Gerald Gamm and Robert D. Putnam. The paper discusses the development and maintenance of organizations in communities. Bowling Green, Kentucky, was used as a model city for the project.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 81, No. 25 [29], Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Articles in this issue:

• Bosken, Nina. Speaker Reflects on Diversity – Clarence Page
• Coulter, Amber. Tuition Hike May Exceed Expectation
• Paul, Corey. Racks, Registration to Combat Bike Theft
• Coulter, Amber. Students Working More to Pay for Rising Tuition
• Brandenburg, Katie. Fees Increase to Fund Projects
• Positive Protest – Greenwood High School Dress Code
• Wilson, Brandon. Keep Opinions Out of Classrooms
• Brown, Erika. Prejudice Still Exists in 21^st Century
• Casagrande, Michael. College Heights Herald Apologizes
• Paul, Corey. Student Honored for Bravery – Ryan Russell
• Paul, Corey. Sorority Houses Get …

Ua1b2/1/7 Oral History, Lydia Kullman, Gary Ransdell

WKU Archives Records

Interview conducted by Lydia Kullman with Gary Ransdell. This oral history interview was created for Andrew McMichael's History and the Internet Class, 2004.

Ua3/9/5 Commemoration Ceremony Of September 11, Wku President's Office

WKU Archives Records

Speech delivered by WKU president Gary Ransdell at the commemoration of September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, DC.

Ua77/1 Those Fabulous Fifties, Wku Alumni Relations

WKU Archives Records

Alumni directory for the classes of 1950 through 1959 of WKU and the Bowling Green Business University. Contains segments on homecoming, athletics, arts and student life. Also included are selected graduate biographies.

Ua3/4/1 Student Unrest - Letters Of Support, Wku President's Office, Dero Downing

WKU Archives Records

Contents of folder entitled Student Unrest - Letters of Support housed in UA3/4/1 President Dero Downing's Subject File for the period May through June 1970. Correspondence between Dero Downing and WKU supporters praising his actions in handling student protests.

Ua3/4/1 Student Unrest - Reports & Remarks, Wku President's Office, Dero Downing

WKU Archives Records

Contents of folder entitled Student Unrest - Reports & Remarks housed in UA3/4/1 President Dero Downing's Subject File for the period February 1969 through June 1970. Includes correspondence between Dero Downing and students, form letters used by Yale University during the period, White House press releases and clippings.

Ua3/4/1 Student Unrest - Western 1970, Wku President's Office, Dero Downing

WKU Archives Records

Contents of folder entitled Student Unrest -- Western 1970 housed in UA3/4/1 President Dero Downing's Subject File. Includes correspondence between student groups and Dero Downing regarding student demands; broadsides and clippings.

Ua68/10/1 Sociological Symposium No. 3 – The Sociology Of The Middle Years, Wku Sociology

WKU Archives Records

Table of Contents:

• Bart, Pauline B. Why Women’s Status Changes in Middle Age
• Bourque, Linda Brookover & Kurt W. Back. The Middle Years Seen Through the Life Graph
• Davidson, James D. Religious Involvement & Middle Age
• Deutscher, Irwin. From Parental to Post-Parental Life: Exploring Shifting Expectations
• Geschwender, James A. & Benjamin D. Singer. Riot Participation & the Middle Years
• Herb, Terry R. Middle Age & Aging: Neugarten’s Approach
• Levin, Jack & Gerald Taube. Attitudes Toward Public Housing Among Middle Age Tenants
• Levin, Martin L., William W. Pendleton & Lewis Bowman. Political Partisanship of Middle Age Voters
• Mayer, Thomas F. Middle …

Ua37/23 Whas Broadcast No. 52, Whas, Western Kentucky University, Earl Moore

WKU Archives Records

Script for weekly WKU broadcast on WHAS radio. This show included Earl Moore, Henry Cherry, Joe Seemes, Raymond Hill and Kelly Thompson talking about the Louisville flood and refugees housed at WKU.

Ua1b1 Civic Week Herald, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

Special broadside advertising the Historical Pageant of Kentucky and other events to be held during Bowling Green's Civic Week.

Ua3/1/2 Henry Cherry - Earl Sullenger Correspondence, T. Earl Sullenger, Henry Cherry

WKU Archives Records

Letter from T. Earl Sullenger WKU alum requesting a recommendation from Henry Cherry in order to obtain a commission in the U.S. Navy. Text:

Allison DII
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Washington, D.C.

Pres. H.H. Cherry
Bowling Green, Ky.

My dear Friend:

Please pardon me for asking for another favor, but I am making application for a Commission in the U.S. Navy. I know that a letter from you will be a great assistance to me.

Hoping to receive the letter at once and thanking you in advance, I am

Your W.K.S.N. friend
T. Earl Sullenger

Cherry's reply recounts the establishment of …

Ua12/2/1 Normal Heights, Vol. 2, No. 2, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

Newsletter and course catalog promoting Western Kentucky University. This issue focuses on the Rural Life & Rural School Conference.