UK'S FIRST PARKING STRUCTURE

Ever wonder why the "Rose Street" parking structure was built where it is?  The Kentucky Kernel can provide the answer.

Kentucky Kernel, January 22, 1966

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"Willie T" @ 21

 



UK Libraries main library, the William T. Young Library, will soon celebrate its 21st birthday.  It is recognized as one of the outstanding university library buildings in the United States.  Over the past two decades, the library affectionately called "Willie T" by UK students, has become integral to student success.   

 

William T. Young, the library's namesake, was also once a UK student.  He was not known as "Willie T," but as "Billy" Young during his student days on campus.  An engineering major with a perfect standing in the college and one of the top ranking students in the University Military department, he served as president of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.  He also was a member of Omicron Delta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi honorary engineering fraternity.

 

 

As a 21 year old UK senior in 1939, the Kentucky Kernel named "Billy" Young "Colonel of the Week" for being elected as UK's official delegate to the ODK National Convention at Washington and Lee University.

 

 

Kentucky Kernel, March 24, 1939

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LOUIE B. NUNN, 1924-2004

Governor Louie B. Nunn was born 94 years ago today.  As Governor from 1967 to 1971 he also served as Chair of the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees.

Nunn may have been one of the last great storytelling Kentucky politicians.  He told me once about a county judge in a neighboring county.  Nunn, who was also a county judge at the time, helped the judge get elected and also helped him set up his office.  The judge happened to be a lay preacher and very religious.

When Nunn ran against his former law school classmate Marlow Cook for governor in the Republican primary in 1967, Cook visited the neighboring county for a political event.  The county judge, who Nunn had helped get elected, sat up on the platform with Cook along with other county leaders.

The next time Nunn was in the county the judge made a point of reminding Nunn that he was for him in the upcoming election.  He told Nunn that he had to sit on that platform with everybody else and insisted, "Now you know I’m for you against Cook."  Nunn replied, "I know that, Judge, I never worried about you being for me.  We've been friends all these years and I know you're for me." 

The lay preacher/county judge then said to Nunn, "I want to ask you one thing.  Is that fella Cook given to foul language?"  Without any hesitation Nunn replied with emphasis, "Just when he's drinking, Judge, just when he's drinking."  Nunn knew that would make sure the judge would never be for Cook and remembered having a good laugh all the way home at Marlow Cook's expense.

DR. JANE HASELDEN, 1903-1991

Jane Haselden, a Lancaster, Kentucky native, graduated from Transylvania University in 1926 with a degree in French.  As a graduation present her parents sent Haselden to study in Paris for a year.  

Following her return to the United States she became a teacher, first in Beattyville, Kentucky and subsequently in her hometown of Lancaster.  While in Beattyville, Haselden achieved some notoriety for coaching the boys' basketball team at the local high school.  

During summers Haselden worked toward a master's degree at Columbia University, a goal she achieved in 1932.  After serving as Dean of Women at both Transylvania University and Murray State Teachers College in Western Kentucky, Haselden completed a Ph.D. in Psychology at UK.

Haselden also held a pilot’s license.  She and Anna Mayrell Johnson jointly owned an airplane and were known to rush out to the local airport during their lunch breaks to fly their plane over Lexington.  One time Haselden even flew her plane over Stoll Field during a football game between Kentucky and Alabama.  

Haselden and Johnson actively participated in the Kentucky chapter of the Ninety-Nines, an international organization of women pilots affiliated with the National Aeronautic Association in Washington D.C.  Haselden recalled that as the war began "casual flying" came to an end because the war changed things for everyone.   She was one of only three women who were members of the committee which drafted Kentucky's civil aviation regulations.

For additional information see:  

http://libguides.transy.edu/JaneHaselden  (Transylvania University)

Dean of Women Papers, Special Collections Research Center, UK Libraries

Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, UK Libraries
Interview with Jane Haselden, October 17, 1989
https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/ark:/16417/xt7ksn012j09
Interview with Jane Haselden, October 27, 1989

https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/ark:/16417/xt7z348gj469