Ruth Foxx Newborg papers, 1937-1979 1937-1941 (bulk dates).

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Ruth Foxx Newborg papers, 1937-1979 1937-1941 (bulk dates).

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These materials reflect Newborg's efforts as radio station manager of WBKY to utilize radio as an educational and cultural medium. Among the holdings are letters, school surveys, Lee County school rules and regulations, news programs, program schedules, a record list, and scripts for program episodes. There is a draft of a 1979 article by Newborg which appeared in PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS REVIEW (vol. 7, no. 5), and a draft copy of that article entitled "Educational Broadcasting's first rural station--radio station WBKY--1940-1941." A scrapbook contains photos, clippings and memorabilia relating to WBKY, Newborg, and Elmer G. Sulzer who was director of radio activities at the University of Kentucky.

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Sulzer, Elmer G.

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University of Kentucky.

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The University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY is a land grant institution founded in 1865. The University evolved through three stages before becoming the University of Kentucky in 1916: the Agriculture and Mechanical College of Kentucky University, 1865-78, a private, denominational institution in Lexington created by an act of the legislature on February 22, 1865; the Agriculture and Mechanical College of Kentucky, 1878-1908; and State University, Lexington, 1908-1916. A statute in 1916 changed ...

WBKY (radio station : Beattyville, Ky.)

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Newborg, Ruth Foxx.

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Radio station program director. Ruth Foxx Newborg, a 1940 graduate of the University of Louisville, served as program director of University of Kentucky sponsored radio station WBKY in Beattyville, Ky. from 1940 to 1941. The station was operated by U.K. in cooperation with the Lee County, Ky. board of education. The station was created as an experiment in bringing educational radio broadcast to the remote Appalachian regions of eastern Kentucky. The venture was short liv...