Lynn E. Niedermeier

Index to Board of Regents Minutes, 1986-1988

Lynn E. Niedermeier — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:38:59 PDT

An index of subjects covered in the meeting minutes of the Board of Regents of Western Kentucky University during the administration of its seventh president, Samuel Kern Alexander, Jr. (January 25, 1986-September 1, 1988). Meeting dates in the index are stated as year/month/day.

Index to Board of Regents Minutes, 1985-1986

Lynn E. Niedermeier — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:34:53 PDT

An index of subjects covered in the meeting minutes of the Board of Regents of Western Kentucky University during the administration of interim president Paul Burton Cook (September 1, 1985-January 25, 1986). Meeting dates in the index are stated as year/month/day.

Index to Board of Regents Minutes, 1979-1985

Lynn E. Niedermeier — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:18:50 PDT

An index of subjects covered in the meeting minutes of the Board of Regents of Western Kentucky University during the administration of its sixth president, Donald Wayne Zacharias (August 1, 1979-August 31, 1985). Meeting dates in the index are stated as year/month/day.

The History of Her Heart: Kentucky Author Rosa Praigg Dickerson

Lynn E. Niedermeier — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 11:04:02 PDT

Under the pen name "Violet Woods," Rosa Praigg Dickerson (1843-1902) wrote poetry and stories for Kentucky newspapers and magazines and published nationally in the well-known Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine. This sketch of her life draws on biographical material and a collection of her writing housed at the Kentucky Library & Museum.

Index to Board of Regents Minutes, 1979 January-July

Lynn E. Niedermeier — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 08:29:01 PDT

An index of subjects covered in the meeting minutes of the Board of Regents of Western Kentucky University during the administration of its fifth president, John Dean Minton (Jan. 8, 1979-July 31, 1979). Meeting dates in the index are stated as year/month/day.

Index to Board of Regents Minutes, 1969-1978

Lynn E. Niedermeier — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 13:51:59 PDT

An index of subjects covered in the meeting minutes of the Board of Regents of Western Kentucky University during the administration of its fourth president, Dero Goodman Downing (September 12, 1969-January 8, 1979). Meeting dates in the index are stated as year/month/day.

Index to Board of Regents Minutes, 1955-1969

Lynn E. Niedermeier — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 13:29:58 PDT

An index of subjects covered in the meeting minutes of the Board of Regents of Western Kentucky University during the administration of its third president, Edwin Kelly Thompson (March 26, 1955-September 12, 1969). During this period the University was known as Western Kentucky State College (1948-1966) and Western Kentucky University (1966-). Meeting dates in the index are stated as year/month/day.

Index to Board of Regents Minutes, 1937-1955

Lynn E. Niedermeier — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 13:48:45 PDT

An index of subjects covered in the meeting minutes of the Board of Regents of Western Kentucky University during the administration of its second president, Paul Loos Garrett (September 1, 1937-February 28, 1955). During this period the University was known as Western Kentucky State Teachers College (1930-1948) and Western Kentucky State College (1948-). Meeting dates in the index are stated as year/month/day.

Index to Board of Regents Minutes, 1906-1937

Lynn E. Niedermeier — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 14:55:49 PDT

An index of subjects covered in the meeting minutes of the Board of Regents of Western Kentucky University during the administration of its first president, Henry Hardin Cherry (June 2, 1906-August 1, 1937). During this period, the university was known as Western Kentucky State Normal School (1906-1922), Western Kentucky State Normal School and Teachers College (1922-1930), and Western Kentucky State Teachers College (1930-). Meeting dates in the index are stated as year/month/day.

College Heights Herald Index, 2004-2008

Lynn E. Niedermeier — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:53:06 PDT

An index of articles published in the College Heights Herald, August 2004 - May 2008.

College Heights Herald Index, 1999-2004

Lynn E. Niedermeier — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:51:17 PDT

An index of articles published in the College Heights Herald, August 1999 - April 2004.

College Heights Herald Index, 1994-1999

Lynn E. Niedermeier — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:49:24 PDT

An index of articles published in the College Heights Herald, August 1994 - April 1999.

"I hope you can some day have a bath room": Bowling Green's Sewer System

Lynn E. Niedermeier — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 06:44:10 PST

Bowling Green once disposed of its sewage through “sinks,” openings to caverns and underground watercourses in the limestone bedrock beneath the city. By the late nineteenth century, however, the seepage, flooding, odor and disease emanating from clogged sinks—not to mention from the city’s hundreds of unregulated surface privies—posed hazards that could no longer be ignored. Public health advocates intensified their calls for man-made rather than natural sewers to eliminate what one of them called the “gross accumulation of human filth in the city.” Politicians procrastinated and some citizens resisted, but a federal loan in 1932 finally enabled the construction of Bowling Green’s first sanitary sewer system.

Ghosts of Western Kentucky University

Lynn E. Niedermeier — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:54:05 PDT

Versions of ten WKU campus ghost stories, and a list of resources for further reading.

Eastern's Silver Fleet: Interstate Airline Passenger Service Comes to Bowling Green

Lynn E. Niedermeier — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 07:26:36 PDT

The 1948 inauguration of Eastern Air Lines' service to Bowling Green was a triumph for city officials. Passengers, mail and freight flew in and out of the community, first on Eastern's fleet of DC-3 "Silver Liners" and then on jets. In 1972, despite regular airport improvements and local appeals to federal aviation authorities for its continuance, Eastern was permitted to eliminate the Bowling Green route as unprofitable.

A 1908 Interview With the Author of "Aunt Jane of Kentucky"

Lynn E. Niedermeier — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:39:10 PDT

Bowling Green native Lida Calvert Obenchain wrote popular fiction and campaigned for woman suffrage. Interviewed after her first book of stories, Aunt Jane of Kentucky, was published under her pen name "Eliza Calvert Hall," Lida spoke about her family, literature, women's rights, and her work for the Kentucky Equal Rights Association. The interview, conducted by journalist Ewing Galloway, is reproduced here, with annotations to amplify the content.

The Ghostly Legends of Vinegar Hill

Lynn E. Niedermeier — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 09:19:18 PDT

Before the establishment of Western Kentucky University on its hilltop campus, the area was known as "Vinegar Hill," a rocky, overgrown, unsavory and haunted place. In 1912, an elderly African-American resident of the neighboring community of Jonesville recounted its ghostly history to a local newspaper reporter.

The Woman's Library of Bowling Green

Lynn E. Niedermeier — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:44:55 PDT

Before Bowling Green secured a public library, two women's clubs joined in 1898 to create a private lending library for their own study and enjoyment and that of their fellow citizens. As the Woman's Library grew, some 200 members of the public paid a fee for borrowing privileges. By the time the library was donated to the Board of Education in 1913, it boasted 2,500 volumes.

The Bowling Green Refining Company: Makers of "Kentucky Maid" Gasoline

Lynn E. Niedermeier — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:15:26 PDT

In 1931, Depression-struck oil producers in Warren, Simpson and Allen Counties created the Bowling Green Refining Company to convert local crude into gasoline. With a daily capacity of 1,500 barrels, the company produced its brand of "Kentucky Maid" gasoline at a forty-acre facility near Memphis Junction. Service stations throughout the area sold Kentucky Maid until 1936, when supply problems forced the company into liquidation.

"Our Chief Rival and Greatest Friend": The Western-Murray Athletic Rivalry

Lynn E. Niedermeier — Sun, 31 May 2009 11:09:07 PDT

Since their first football game in 1931 and their first men's basketball game in 1932, WKU and Murray State University have enjoyed a natural, spirited, and at times bitter athletic rivalry. For most of five decades, the schools met in the final game of their football seasons, and in basketball they regularly clashed in Ohio Valley Conference play. Anytime the day of "the Western-Murray game" approached, particularly in the 1950s, administrators struggled to maintain order on their campuses in the face of student pranks, graffiti attacks and other extreme expressions of school loyalty.