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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Perley F. Ayer Papers

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Identifier: BCA 0022 SAA 021
Abstract Perley F. Ayer, a native of New Hampshire, was educated at the University of New Hampshire (B.S.1922) and Cornell University (M.S. 1947).  Prior to coming to Berea in 1947, he had been employed as an extension agent in New Hampshire and as an instructor at Pleasant Hill Academy in Pleasant Hill, Tennessee.  He worked at Berea College as supervisor of an agricultural training program in the Foundation School, as a field representative for the Admissions office, and as an instructor in...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1952-1968

Willis D. Weatherford, Sr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.56
Abstract

Willis D. Weatherford, Sr., was president of the Blue Ridge Assembly, Black Mountain, N.C., 1906-1944; president of the Y.M.C.A. Graduate School, Nashville, 1919-1946; trustee of Berea College, Berea, Ky., 1916-ca. 1962; faculty member of Fisk University, 1936-1946; director of the Southern Appalachian Studies Project, 1956-1968; and lifelong student of race relations in the South.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: c. 1915-1970

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