WKU Hilltopper Heritage

WKU Traditions & Memories

Links to sources regarding WKU traditions and memories of students and alumni. 

For more information regarding the history of Western Kentucky University please contact the WKU Archives.

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Administration	Faculty & Staff
Alumni	Photographs
Athletics	Student Organizations
Buildings & Grounds	WKU Traditions  & Memories

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1998 Hail Storm
Athletics

• Athletics 
• Red Towel
  • A Towel Comes Out of the Air
• Terry Gander

Artifacts 
Chapel  
Cheerleaders 
College High / University High

• Kay Myers
  • Scrapbook - digitized
• Parent Teacher Association
  • Scrapbook 1 - digitized
  • Scrapbook 2 - digitized
  • Scrapbook 3 - digitized
  • Scrapbook 4 - digitized
  • Scrapbook 5 - digitized

Correspondence

• Thomas Cherry Tichenor - digitized
• Verda Watson Postcards - digitized

Favorite Professors   
Glasgow Normal School 

• Elizabeth Curd Tucker Scrapbook - Collection Inventory
• Elizabeth Curd Tucker Scrapbook - digitized

Greek Life

• Alpha Phi Omega
  • Scrapbook 2 - digitized
  • Scrapbook 3 - digitized
  • Scrapbook 4 - digitized
• Panhellenic Rush - index
• See also Student Organizations

Hangouts
Hilltoppers Nicknames
Hilltoppers Quartet
Homecoming

• First Homecoming Game, 1927 
• Homecoming 1955 video
• Homecoming 1959 video
• Ogden's First Homecoming 
• Vertical File 1927-1980  
• Vertical File 1981-2007  
• WKU's Beauty Queens 

Kissing Bridge
Letter Sweaters
Logos & Symbols

• Bibliography  
• Photographs - Collection Inventory
• Photographs - digitized

Marching Band
Mascots

• Bibliography
• Big Red
• Chester Travelstead 
  

Memorabilia

• Training School / College High Memorabilia - Collection Inventory
• WKU Memorabilia - Collection Inventory

Multimedia

• Amelia Tate Oral History - audio - index
• Boyce Tate Oral History - audio - index
• College Heights - audio
• Dero Downing Interviews - audio - Collection Inventory
• Donald Zacharias Interviews - audio - Collection Inventory
• E.A. Diddle
  • Oral History Interview, 1959 - index
  • Oral History Interview by Bob Cochran, nd - index
  • Speeches & Interviews - audio - Collection Inventory
• George Shannon Interview - audio - index
• John Minton Interviews - audio - Collection Inventory
  
• Kelly Thompson Interviews - audio - Collection Inventory
• Kern Alexander Interviews - audio - Collection Inventory
• Lost River Cave Oral History Project - audio - Collection Inventory
• Marti Whitmore Interview - audio - index
• Nina Hammer Oral History - audio - index
• Panhellenic Rush - audio - index
• Thomas Meredith Interviews - audio - Collection Inventory
• Virginia Robertson Oral History - audio - index 
• WKU Archives YouTube Channel

Ogden College

• Ogden Spirit 
• Rodes Myers Scrapbook - Collection Inventory
• Rodes Myers Scrapbook - digitized

Oral Histories / Interviews

• Amelia Tate Oral History - index
• Boyce Tate Oral History - index
• Dero Downing Interviews - Collection Inventory
• Donald Zacharias Interviews - Collection Inventory
• E.A. Diddle 
  • Oral History Interview, 1959 - index
  • Oral History Interview by Bob Cochran, nd - index
  • Speeches & Interviews - Collection Inventory
• George Shannon Interview - index
• John Minton Interviews - Collection Inventory
• Kelly Thompson Interviews - Collection Inventory
• Kern Alexander Interviews - Collection Inventory
• Lost River Cave Oral History Project - Collection Inventory
• Nina Hammer Oral History - index
• Marti Whitmore Interview - index
• Thomas Meredith Interviews - Collection Inventory
• Virginia Robertson Oral History - index 

Pershing Rifles

• Scrapbooks  -  1977 -- 1978

Photographs

• Franklin Studio Photos - Collection Inventory
• Franklin Studio Photos - digitized
• Goldie McKeel Dunn Curd Photo Album - digitized
• Logos & Symbols Photos - Collection Inventory
• Logos & Symbols Photos - digitized 
• WKU's Beauty Queens - digitized

Publications

• A Century of Spirit
  • Alumni - full-text searchable
  • Centennial Timeline - full-text searchable
  • Student Life - full-text searchable
• College Heights Herald
• Yearbooks

Red Towel --  E.A. Diddle & the Red Towel
Scrapbooks / Autograph Books

• Alpha Phi Omega
  • Scrapbook 2 - digitized
  • Scrapbook 3 - digitized
  • Scrapbook 4 - digitized
• Amelia Smith - Autograph Book - Southern Normal - digitized
• Anna Murl Fisher
  • Scrapbook 1 - digitized
  • Scrapbook 2 - digitized
• Bethel Oakley
  • Autograph Book 1 - digitized
  • Autograph Book 2 - digitized
• Beulah Collins
  • Beulah Collins Autograph Book 1 - Southern Normal - digitized
  • Beulah Collins Autograph Book 2 - Southern Normal - digitized
• Donnie Love -- Autograph Book - digitized
• Edgar Stansbury
  • Scrapbook 1 - digitized
  • Scrapbook 2 - digitized
  • Scrapbook 4 - digitized
  • Scrapbook 8 - digitized
  • Scrapbook 10 - digitized
• Edyth Robinson -- Scrapbook - digitized
• Elizabeth Curd Tucker
  • Scrapbook - Glasgow - Collection Inventory
  • Scrapbook - Glasgow - digitized
• Georgia McElwain -- Scrapbook - digitized
• Goldia McKeel Dunn Curd -- School Memories Book - digitized
• Juanita Hood Stockton
  • Scrapbook 1 - digitized
  • Scrapbook 2 - digitized
• Kay Myers  -- Scrapbook - College High - digitized
• Nellie Gilmore -- Scrapbook - Training School - digitized
• Pershing Rifles
• Rebelettes 
• Rita Sumpter
  • Scrapbook 1 - Training School - digitized
  • Scrapbook 2 - digitized
    
• Rodes Myers
  • Scrapbook - Ogden College - Collection Inventory 
  • Scrapbook - Ogden College - digitized 
• ROTC 
• Western Players  

Songs

• Class of 1915 Songs  
• Class of 1916 Song  
• College Heights - audio
• Song of College was Adopted at End of Contest  

Southern Normal School 

• Amelia Smith -- Autograph Book - digitized
• Beulah Collins
  • Autograph Book 1 - digitized
  • Autograph Book 2 - digitized
• Donnie Love -- Autograph Book - digitized

Spoonholder
Stansbury, Edgar
Symbols - 

• Class Ring - vertical file D2446 available upon request
• Colors 
• Mace 
• Logo 
• Seal 
• WKU Glasgow Tartan Stole

Training School

• Nellie Gilmore -- Scrapbook - digitized
• Parent Teacher Association
  • Scrapbook 1 - digitized
  • Scrapbook 2 - digitized
  • Scrapbook 3 - digitized
  • Scrapbook 4 - digitized
  • Scrapbook 5 - digitized
• Rita Sumpter
  • Scrapbook 1 - digitized
  • Scrapbook 2 - digitized

Tuition
Vietnam Protests
WKU Founders Day
WKU Spirit
Yearbooks

A college is not its campus, its walks, its buildings. A college is an ideal, a spirit, a long tradition, a zeal for more life and more knowledge. It is more than its president, more than its board of control, more than its faculty and students of a single year. A college represents the friendships and the achievements of all the known and unknown people who have made it possible, who have given it a distinct stamp, who have extended it material and moral support, who have interpreted its spirit into useful lives.

~Henry Cherry