This is the first post in an occasional series, “Davy Jones’ Locker.”  Follow along with Davy Jones, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Toxicology and Cancer Biology in the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, as he explores various aspects of University of Kentucky history through the University Archives and online at ExploreUK.uky.edu. The “locker” in the accompanying photograph is one of the cubicles in the UK Libraries Special Collections Research Center’s Breckinridge Research Room where researchers can put their personal items.

Title: University Senate Secretaries, 1918-2020

Here is a brief historical montage of the persons who have served as “Secretary of the University Senate” and as “Recording Secretary of the University Senate.”  In addition, there are some historical images of the “dictabelt” recording equipment that was used at Senate meetings during the 1960s/1970s.