Western Kentucky University TopSCHOLAR® WKU Archives Collection Inventories WKU Archives 2015 UA1B3/5 Cherry Statue Committee WKU Archives Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_ua_fin_aid Part of the Anthropology Commons, Higher Education Administration Commons, Sculpture Commons, and the Sociology Commons Recommended Citation WKU Archives, "UA1B3/5 Cherry Statue Committee" (2015). WKU Archives Collection Inventories. Paper 465. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_ua_fin_aid/465 This Finding Aid is brought to you for free and open access by TopSCHOLAR®. It has been accepted for inclusion in WKU Archives Collection Inventories by an authorized administrator of TopSCHOLAR®. For more information, please contact
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[email protected] Home page: https://wku.edu/library/archive © 2015 WKU Archives, revised 2019 All rights reserved. Administrative History: In the fall of 1933 a group of faculty members "who were especially interested in launching a campaign leading to the carving and erection of a statue of President Cherry" began meeting. A steering committee of sixteen was soon elected consisting of chairman J.R. Whitmer, secretary Mattie McLean, Finley Grise, E.H. Canon, Roy Seward, W.J. Craig, M.C. Ford, L.T. Smith, W.M. Pearce, Kelly Thompson, Margie Helm, West Richards, Sterrett Cuthbertson, Florence Schneider, W.L. Matthews and Arndt Stickles. The group met from 1933 through 1938 devising a plan, raising money, hiring architect Lorado Taft and distributing excess funds.