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Ruth E. Cole Collection
Ruth E. Cole chaired Murray State's Department of Nursing from 1954 to 1977, building a popular new program. She was called to serve in the US Navy Nurse Corp during World War II and again during the Korean War soon after her hiring at the college. Cole was a legendary professor and administrator who was awarded “Nurse Educator of the Year.” She completed her doctorate in 1973, then became a Nursing Education professor at Harding University in Arkansas. Her last job before retiring was Program Director for the Murray-Calloway County Hospital Hospice Program.
Pictured are copies of partial floor plans of the Houston McDevitt Clinic-Hospital sent to Ruth E. Cole in a letter from Anna F. in August 2007. She told Ruth she could not remember the exact floor plans and hoped she could help.
The patient room on the first floor reminded Anna of her first time giving a bath to a patient she described as "yellow as gold with sores from top head to the bottom of her feet."
Ruth E. Cole Collection: MS 15-01, Box 5, File 8
Irma Collins Papers
Irma Collins was a music professor at Murray State University from 1976-93 and MS15-02 covers her involvement in the Graves County Gifted and Talented program in addition to handwritten notes from her classes, and more.
Here, she Prof. Collins assesses the dilemma with pre-service education and attempts to find a solution. She notes recruitment, curriculum, and involvement as priority issues.
Irma Collins Papers Collection: MS 15-02, Box 4, File 2.
Pictured is a handwritten schedule for one of Prof. Cole's music education classes. Within this file are a variety of classwork materials, notes, assignments, and more from Cole's time at Murray State and Harding University.
Irma Collins Papers Collection: MS 15-02, Box 1, File 7.
Judith Ann Maupin Papers, 1973-1982
Judith Ann Maupin was a genealogist, historian, and newspaper columnist who wrote for the Murray Ledger. MS82-01 includes a copy of her map of grave removal listings, grave site information, a list of Kentucky reservoir cemeteries in the Land Between the Lakes area, and newspaper clippings from her column “Echoes from the Past." This collection also offers general information on grave removals and a brief history of forgotten cemeteries in Kentucky.
Pictured is a list of Kentucky reservoir cemeteries in the LBL area dated 8-6-65. The list includes EM #, tract number, cemetery number, map number, and more. She used this information to transcribe family history data for genealogical research.
Judith Ann Maupin Papers, 1973-1982 Collection: MS 82-01, Box 1, File 5.
This is a map of graves removed during the Kentucky Lake Cemetery Relocation Project from 1939 to 1943. Within the map includes Akers Cemetery of Benton Co., TN, Baker Cemetery of Henry Co., TN, and Cherry Cemetery of Houston Co., TN. Within the collection are additional files on Cherry Cemetery in which Maupin noted specific grave sites, names, and birth/death dates.
Judith Ann Maupin Papers, 1973-1982 Collection: MS 82-01, Box 1, File 6.
Pictured is a list of names and grave numbers of a specific cemetery. Also included is a list of people buried in the cemetery whose graves could not be found. Maupin published family histories and tombstone information from cemeteries of Calloway, Lyon, & Trigg Counties, KY, and Stewart County, TN.
Judith Ann Maupin Papers, 1973-1982 Collection: MS 82-01, Box 1, File 5.