Western Kentucky University - Talisman Yearbook (Bowling Green, KY)

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Table of Contents Student Life ........ 32 Athletics ..... .... 9 8 Academics ........ 138 Honors ............ 218 Organizations ..... 258 Classes ............ 352 Index . . . .... .468

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Above-Students spent many pleasant hours here with their studies between classes. Right-Co-captains Willard Price i241 and Willie Watson l50j lead the 1952 Hilltopper football team onto the field before one ofthe home games. Price was a 6'0 ,195- - pound tackle from Louisville. Watson, a Princeton native, was a 155-pound halfback. Western's future will be built from the present as the present has been built on the past. There is a little of the old in everything new. Since 1924 the student body at Western Kentucky University has received a Talisman every spring. Most have never realized the long hours and the dedication that have gone into each publication. The little of the old section presents highlights through the five decades of the Tolismon's growth. The past half-century has seen Western grow in many ways. The 1973 Talisman mirrors these changes, yet presents Western Kentucky University as it is today. Z Table of Contents At the right is a perspective, showing the proposed plant of the Western Kentucky State Teachers College, which was visualized and drawn before a single building was constructed. Below-The period of comparatively quiet but rapid growth and advancement which Western State Normal School had enjoyed since its removal to the Hill in 1911 was rudely interrupted in the spring of 1917 by the entrance of the United States into World War I. Within a few days after the United States had entered the War, many of the Western students volunteered for service in the army. For the year 1917-18 the number of men enrolled in Western was 264, only Z1 per cent of the enrollment.

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1924 Talisman records beginnings The 1924 Talisman recorded the beginning of a new era for Western Kentucky State Normal School and Teacher's College. Despite a small enrollment in 1924, Western boasted its first junior class and the publication of a 152 page Talisman. During the year, Iohn Phillip Sousa's band visited Western, a section of stovepipe fell in the library, flappers danced and girls wore their hair bobbed. It was the year that Western graduated 77 seniors and had a teaching staff of 37. The first basketball game of the season resulted in a landslide victory for Western's Pedagogues over the Adairville Independents, 103-7. Early 20th century students were already feeling pressures of college life as the Talisman retold the many incidents of homesick freshmen and practice teaching miseries. The yearbook contained poetry, jokes and- the traditional witticisms of a gothic style book typical of the decade. A half century ago, just as today, Benson Printing Company in Nashville printed the yearbook. Right-The editors of the 1924 Talisman requested light criticism of the book's contents as it was the first yearbook to.be published since the school obtained college status. Below-Army ROTC was established by the government at Western in 1919-one year after World War I had ended. With almost 90 cadets enrolled, the unit was under the direction of Major Thomas E. Cathero. FOREWORD ln presenting the TALISMAN of t924, we beg that the reader will not judge it too severely from a linguistic and artistic standpoint, but that he may keep and treasure it rather as a book of remembrance. The members of the editorial staff wish to acknowledge their appreciation to the members of both the faculty and the student body for valuable suggestions and contributions. without which the Annual would have been an impossi- bility. Especially do we thank the reporters of the class groups for their untiring efforts and co- operation with us in making each space allotted to claszes as attractive as possible. We earnestly hope. however, that the reader will remember that this is the lint Annual pro- duced by the Western Kentucky State Normal School and Teachers' College since it has been raised to the rank of a college, and that he will not criticise tco severely obvious errors that may appear in this book. TH: Enrroas. A Aw J' D. QX X f 6 N I - Lil ..,.-. Ev: l : 21. 1 1- '+ lil 'E Q i..t,..:: QT'-if-3 -2, -j, '-.g- S? fr 'fx -5 A .... Ci.. If -5,xtlxk--gem ..... ,i 5-..,--e ,- e 4:11. f-'T ., 'S QZZ..-J..'2,.. gil. FK .5 2 ix Ji- 4 Ji 4+ - ' - +l A--lf' -fi -5- -sl -'it ---' A Ji-,:..'S i Q-. S 5 q:'g'..:- y:-4x-T - ' -2 fs? ei. f 'ii -5 'Tv All ie - Qi? Little ofthe old