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Graduates of Western Kentucky University, Greater Nashville Area: names, photos, jobs and positions, locations, education.
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- 2012
WKU Archives serves the university's historical administrative, legal and records management needs by overseeing permanent records created by and about Western Kentucky University.
- 1949-50
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- 1952-53
- 1955-56
- 1956-57
- 1957-58
- 1958-59
Congress Debating Club
Dr. Russell H. Miller (sponsor) Charles Ball, James Chamberlain, Raymond L. Cravens, Leonard P. Curry, Larry Dewese, Lewis Faulkner, Glenn Goff, Frank Lambreth, William Montana, Hugh Noffsinger, Patricia Sharpe, Vincent J. Sherry, Jr., George Simpson, Troy Spear, Thomas C. Stone, Alva Thomas, John Quentin Wesley Norma Boster and Patricia Sharpe were the first women to attend meetings of the oldest club on campus, on 2 February 1950.4Sharpe then became the first woman to join, on 14 February....
Speech
William E. Bivin, pictured below, placed second at the Kentucky Intercollegiate Oratorical Association contest.10 [Link to 1952 Results Archive]
Inter-collegiate Debate Team
Dr. Russell H. Miller (coach); Captain: Thomas Pogue, Co-Captain: William E. Bivin, Recorder: N.R. Naberhuis, Recorder: Catherine Hopper; also James B. Jones Western debated Murray State College in the annual exhibition early January, Centre College on 10 and 25 February and the University of Kentucky on 24 February.10They may have also competed at the Kentucky Interscholastic Debate Tournament (state) at Eastern Kentucky State College on 17 January.
Speech
Tod Oliver and Elizabeth McWhorter represented Western at the Kentucky Intercollegiate Oratorical Association contest on 31 March.11Oliver placed second in the men's division, and McWhorter placed fourth in the women's division. [Link to 1953 Results Archive]
Intercollegiate Debate/Forensic Team
Sponsor: Russell H. Miller; Jeanne Jones, Adam P. Matheny Jr., Jim W. Owens, George Reecer, Clyde W. Riggs, Bill L. Short, Ray B. White, Elizabeth McWhorter, and Lacy Wilkins Expanding to two national tournaments, the team increased its ambition.15Western also began a new format of debate: cross examination. Other formats in the past included the "Oregon style." Elizabeth McWhorter won the national championship in in the women's division of Oratory at the Grand National Forensic Tournament.16...
Western Debate Association
Director: Russell H. Miller; Pat Hooper, Rita Jackson, Mary Helen Jenkins, Harold G. Meers, Jim W. Owens, Bill Pemberton, Julius Rather, Ed Render, Clyde William Riggs, Clayton Shannon, Robert B. Siddens, Veronica Slack, Henry D. Stone, Ted Urban, Kenneth A. Williams The team again competed in both the Grand National Forensic Tournament and the 27th Annual Southern Speech Association tournament. Mary Ruth Grise and James W. Owens each won the women's and men's divisions, respectively, of the...
Congress Debating Team
Sponsor: Dr. Willson Wood; Shirley Barnes, Pat Hooper, Jeanne Jones, James Maples, Harold Meers, Jim W. Owens, John Earl Schneider, Henry D. Stone, Neil C. Ward, Kenneth Williams
Western Debate Association
Dr. Russell H. Miller (coach); Lerond Curry, Morris Craig, Bill Francis, Linda Gass Foote, Ray Glenn, Mary Ruth Grise, Jim Hall, Penny Hardy, Mary Helen Jenkins, Archie Jordon, Terry Kelsay, Glenn McDonald, Bob May, Gregg O'Neil, Bill Pemberton, Thomas T. Pogue, Freeman Powell, Leon Remington, Edwin Render, Bob W. Ritchie, and Doris Steele The team hosted the Kentucky Oratorical Association state tournament on 17 April, where Thomas T. Pogue won in men's oratory.21 Pogue was unfortunately bar...
Congress Debating Team
Sponsor: Dr. Willson Wood; John Earl Schneider, Henry D. Stone, Bill Pemberton, Bob W. Ritchie, Joe Givens; also John E. Jones Included in this photo is one of Western's first two African-American students: Reverend John E. Jones, in the middle. Admitted two years earlier, he would finish in 1959 with a Masters degree in Education. He moved on to create a construction company in 1973, and at the time of the construction of this archive he was preaching at United Baptist Church in Kannapolis,...
Western Debate Association
Sponsor: Russell H. Miller; Lerond Curry, Bill Francis, Linda Gass Foote, Charles Goodall, William Greer, Mary Ruth Grise, Haywood Joiner, Bob May, Freeman Powell, Elizabeth Rhea, Patricia Richards, Robert B. Siddens At the 29th Annual Southern Speech Association tournament Mary Ruth Grise received superior rating in oral interpretation.23Others received excellent ratings in oratory and debate. Western won the Kentucky Intercollegiate Debate tournament (state) in Berea. Mary Ruth Grise made t...
Congress Debating Team
Sponsor: Dr. Willson Wood; Neil C. Ward, Lena Priestly, Beverly Belcher, Hayward Joiner, Charles L. Wade; also John E. Jones
- John Carpenter. Born in. United States. Years. 1948-.. (age 76) Occupations. composer writer actor director film director. Biography. John Howard Carpenter is an American filmmaker and composer.
- Michael Rosenbaum. Born in. United States. Years. 1972-.. (age 52) Occupations. voice actor writer actor film director television actor. Biography. Michael Rosenbaum is an American actor and podcaster.
- Matt Long. Born in. United States. Years. 1980-.. (age 44) Occupations. film actor stage actor television actor. Biography. Matthew Long is an American actor. He is best known for playing Ezekiel Landon in the NBC/Netflix sci fi drama Manifest (2019–2023), and his roles in the television series Jack & Bobby (2004–2005), and the films Ghost Rider (2007) and Sydney White (2007).
- Charles Napier. Born in. United States. Years. 1936-2011 (aged 75) Occupations. television actor voice actor film actor actor. Biography. Charles Lewis Napier was an American character actor known for playing supporting and occasional leading roles in television and films.
Paul Garrett was elected WKU's second president at a special meeting of the Board of Regents September 1, 1937. He served as president until his death February 28, 1955. Paul Loos Garrett was born in Waddy, Shelby County, Kentucky, on November 2, 1893.
Yearbooks. Here you will find links to WKU, Bowling Green Business University, Ogden College and Potter College for Young Ladies digitized yearbooks. No yearbooks were published by the Southern Normal School. The most recent WKU Talisman are available in WKU Archives.
