Berea College -- Convocations
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
John Joseph Crowden Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.20
Abstract
John Crowden taught at sociology at Berea College for forty-one years and coordinated the college's convocations program for twenty years before retiring in 2004.
Crowden was a graduate of Transylvania University in Lexington and also held degrees from the Lexington Theological Seminary and was ordained in the Disciples of Christ (Christian) Church. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky. He began teaching in the Sociology Department of Berea College in 1963 and served as the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1964-1984
Wilma Dykeman Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.16
Abstract
Wilma Dykeman (1920-2006) lived all her life near the French Broad River in the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee. Born in Asheville, Dykeman traced her interest in writing to the stories her parents read aloud to her when she was a child. By the time she was in elementary school, she was making up her own stories, plays, and poems. After graduating from high school and Biltmore Junior College in Asheville, Dykeman attended Northwestern University and received a bachelor’s degree in...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1959-1998
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- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Sociology. 1