Western Kentucky University senior Elise Ward of Evansville, Ind. said she received a diagnosis for anxiety in February 2022 and that she struggles with her schoolwork because of her anxiety. “If I don’t get the best grade because of my anxiety, I beat myself up about and constantly tell myself I should have done better,” Ward said. “If I did do good, I always think I still could’ve done better.”
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Alice Gatewood Waddell, an artist from Bowling Green, Ky., said she has been painting for 50 years. Waddell is a descendant of Jonesville, an African American community that once stood where part of Western Kentucky University’s campus now stands, with her mother having been raised in Jonesville. “Being a descendant of Jonesville and knowing the story that a lot of people don’t know about Jonesville, I thought it would be a good opportunity to focus the mural and tell the story of Jonesville,” Waddell said.
Artistic portraits for the front and inside cover, respectively, of Western Kentucky University’s student life and culture magazine, the Talisman’s issue 18: “Connection.” From left: the models are WKU students Sarah McClanahan and Bella Gaddis.
Philip Woodard, 55, a pottery teacher at The Pots Place in Bowling Green, Ky., said he has been doing pottery for about eight years. “The reason I teach is to pass along my talents and experience making pottery,” Woodard said. “Pottery is a passion of mine and I find that teaching is sort of a duty so that others have the same opportunity to enjoy the art of pottery as much as I have.”
Taquería Los Vázquez’s pupusas on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024, in Bowling Green, Ky. Manager Maria Vazquez of Mexico said that her mother owns the business and that her father is the “right hand.” “She’s the main cook, she trains everybody in the kitchen,” Vazquez said. “Every recipe, everything, it’s hers.”
Aiden Robison, 21, an assistant golf professional at South Park Country Club in Fairdale, Ky., said he has been playing golf for 13 years. “Golf means everything, golf means a little bit of something different to everybody,” Robison said. “There’s no one way you have to play golf or one way you have to really enjoy it. You get to enjoy the game however you see fit, and I think that’s really, really unique.”
Sue Bunch owns and operates Roy’s Grocery, a country store in Rockholds, Ky. Since her father Roy Bunch’s untimely death in 1994, she’s carried forward his love for people. “I love the people that comes in,” Bunch said. “They ask me, ‘Why do you want to do the things you do?’ And I’ve always done them. So, I really enjoy it, and it would be hard not to.”
Western Kentucky University freshman Lee Hayden of Owensboro, Ky. said he was formerly diagnosed with anorexia nervosa in 2020. “I just felt like: this is the only thing that’s under my control,” Hayden said. “I didn’t want to eat. I just ate the bare minimum and less.”
Western Kentucky University sophomore Madi Burkons-Shearin of Louisville, Ky. said she believes that her interest in fashion started when she was growing up and was obsessed with American Girl dolls. “As I got older, I took more of an interest in celebrity fashion and art,” Burkons-Shearin said. “Through that, I learned that clothes help me express myself and the way that I identify to the world. In my mind, fashion is the way I express what’s in my heart to others.”
DTID Kentucky Area Leader Josh Houk said he has been with DTID Domino’s for 14 years; throughout those 14 years, his favorite specialty pizza has come to be the buffalo chicken pizza with feta cheese and jalapeños added onto it. “I think the biggest role for a leader is to be able to remove the obstacles of the people that you are leading to help set them up for success,” Houk said. “A big saying in Domino’s and in our franchise is, ‘If you’re not making, baking or taking the orders, then you should be supporting those who are.’”
Ebenezer Griffith, 20, a USA Boxing boxer from Louisville, Ky., said he has his sights set on the 2024 Paris Olympics. “At the end of my career when I look back, I want to be an Olympic gold medalist, I want to be the undisputed world champion and I want to sell out Diddle Arena,” Griffith said.
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