Berea College -- Faculty
Organization
Found in 98 Collections and/or Records:
Kenneth H. Thompson papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.50
Abstract
The papers of Kenneth Herman Thompson, Dean of Berea College, educator, and education consultant.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1940-1981
Wilbur G. Burroughs Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.05
Abstract
Wilbur Greeley Burroughs was born in Shortsville, New York on December 7, 1886 to Joseph B. and Emma Greeley Burroughs. Wilbur and his younger brother, Wallace, attended Oberlin where he received his A.B. in 1909 (Phi Beta Kappa) and A.M. in 1911. Burroughs founded the Geology department at Berea College in 1920 and went on to receive his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1932. In 1927, Burroughs was elected president of the Kentucky Academy of Science.
This collection consists of Burroughs...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1927-1959
William Eleazar Barton Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.04
Abstract
William E. Barton attended Berea College from 1880 to 1885 (B.S.) and married Esther Treat Bushnell—a Berea elementary teacher—upon graduation from college. Barton was a circuit pastor in Robbins, Tennessee, until 1887. From 1887 through 1890 Barton was a pastor in Litchfield, Ohio, while taking courses at Oberlin Theological School. Upon graduation from Oberlin (M.A.), Barton pastored at Wellington, Ohio, and Boston’s Shawmut Congregational Church. From 1899 until 1924, Barton was the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1885-1976; Other: Majority of material found in 1895–1925
William Gordon Ross Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.40
Abstract
William Ross Gordon began teaching at Berea in 1931 as a teacher in the Foundation-Junior High School. In 1932 he was promoted to the college department where he spent the next 36 years teaching philosophy and religion. Born in 1900 in South Carolina, Ross served in the United States Army from 1918 until 1922. He later secured his bachelor's degree from Drury College and in 1930 received his Bachelor of Divinity from the Union Seminary in New York. His Ph.D. in philosophy was granted by...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1940-1990
William H. Robe Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.61
Abstract
William H. Robe was an ordained Baptist minister (1888) who later taught woodworking at Berea College from 1893 until 1898. Robe was married to Mary R. Robe and they had a daughter, Mary Hannah Robe Staats. Robe lived in Berea for much of his life and owned land, although he was not a native Berean. He was a Civil War veteran and Commander of the Captain James West Post, No. 171, Dept. of KY, for the Grand Army of the Republic, an association of men who served as Union soldiers during the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1888 - 1996; Other: Majority of material found in 1888-1904
William R. Hutcherson Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.27
Abstract
William Robert Hutcherson, born in Glassgow, Kentucky, on December 20, 1898, received his A.B. (1922) and A.M. (1924) from the University of Kentucky. Hutcherson continued with his graduate work during the summers at Chicago (1925-1927, 1929) while on the faculty at Berea College. Hutcherson first served as head of the department of the junior high school at Berea from 1924 to 1926. From 1926 to 1928, Hutcherson served as associate professor of physics, astronomy and mathematics and from...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1936-1950
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
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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- Berea (Ky.) 21
- Students, college -- Berea College 16
- Education, higher -- Administration 12
- Appalachian Region. 7
- Berea College -- Affiliated Schools -- Academy School 4
- Madison County (Ky.) -- History. 4
- Oral history -- Berea College (Ky). 4
- Oral history interview. 4
- Oral history. 4
- Folk music -- Appalachian Region. 3
- Mathematics -- Study and teaching. 3
- Mathematics. 3
- Philosophy and religion. 3
- Students, Foreign. 3
- American poetry. 2
- Appalachian Region -- Economic Conditions. 2
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History. 2
- Berea (Ky.) -- Race relations. 2
- Berea College -- Affilliated Schools -- Junior High School 2
- Berea College -- Berea College Faculty Club 2
- Drama -- Production and direction. 2
- Education, Higher -- Appalachian Region -- History. 2
- Hand weaving -- Appalachian Region -- History. 2
- Hand weaving. 2
- Kentucky -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century. 2
- Librarians. 2
- Music -- Instruction and study. 2
- Photograph collections. 2
- Religion. 2
- Sociology. 2
- Southern States -- Race relations. 2
- Women college students 2
- Abolitionists -- Kentucky -- Biography 1
- African American history. 1
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century. 1
- African Americans -- Civil rights. 1
- African Americans -- Education -- Kentucky. 1
- African Americans. 1
- Alumni Memorial Building. 1
- Antislavery movements -- Kentucky. 1
- Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. 1
- Appalachia -- Education. 1
- Appalachian Region -- Social conditions -- History. 1
- Appalachian Region -- Social life and customs. 1
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Religious life and customs. 1
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social life and customs. 1
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- History -- 20th century. 1
- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Art -- Study and teaching. 1
- Artisans -- Kentucky. 1
- Artisans. 1
- Ballads, English -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Banjo music -- Kentucky. 1
- Berea (Ky.) -- Genealogy. 1
- Berea (Ky.) -- History. 1
- Berea College -- Buildings -- Fairchild Hall 1
- Berea College -- Buildings -- Howard Hall 1
- Berea College -- Buildings -- Windswept 1
- Berea College -- Curriculum guides 1
- Berea College -- Student Health Services 1
- Bluegrass festivals -- Kentucky. 1
- Bluegrass music -- Kentucky. 1
- Camping. 1
- Carillons. 1
- Children's songs, English. 1
- China -- Description and travel. 1
- China -- Education. 1
- China -- Missionaries. 1
- China -- Politics. 1
- Christian Identity. 1
- Civil rights -- United States -- History. 1
- Civil rights movements. 1
- College and school drama. 1
- College integration -- Kentucky -- Berea -- History -- 19th century. 1
- College teachers. 1
- College teaching -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. 1
- College theater. 1
- College trustees. 1
- Computer programming. 1
- Computer science -- Study and teaching. 1
- Computer science. 1
- Congregationalism -- Periodicals. 1
- Country music. 1
- Course Offerings. 1
- Day Law (Kentucky). 1
- Debates and debating. 1
- Decorative arts -- Kentucky. 1
- Decorative arts. 1
- Disarmament. 1
- Education -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Education -- Curricula. 1
- Education -- Kentucky -- History. 1
- Education -- Study and teaching 1
- Education, Higher -- Segregation. 1
- Education, higher -- Afro-Americans. 1
- Educational exchanges 1
- English language -- Study and teaching. 1
- Eurythmics. 1
- Fiddle tunes -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Fiddle tunes -- Kentucky. 1 + ∧ less
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