A building that opened on WKU’s campus back in 1939 now bears the name of Charles Hardcastle, a former Bowling Green mayor and WKU alumnus who hopes his family’s gift will impact generations to come. “You can’t rewrite history but you learn from history cause it has a tendency to repeat itself.” Charles Hardcastle is leaving his mark on WKU. “I think it’s very important that we understand the history. The good and the bad.” Hardcastle wasn’t even born when construction began on the Kentucky Building in 1931. Delayed by the Great Depression, it didn’t fully open until 1939, 12 years before the Alvaton native arrived as a student.