Berea College -- Faculty
Organization
Found in 98 Collections and/or Records:
Jane W. Pierson Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.37
Abstract
Jane Wilhelmina Pierson was born in Ohio on July 24, 1917, the daughter of William and Barbara (Ries) Pierson. In 1939, she graduated from Mercy School of Nursing and later completed Midwifery training in the Frontier Nursing Service (1952). After working for five years in the maternity ward at Good Samaritan Hospital in Dayton, she served for two years as a frontier nurse on horseback in the Bull Creek, Kentucky area. After serving as a frontier nurse, Pierson worked at the Berea Hospital...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1917-1952
J.O. Van Hook Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.51
Abstract
Joseph O. Van Hook was raised in Pulaski County, Kentucky and began teaching in a one-room school house in 1909. He came to Berea in 1910 and earned two diplomas from the Normal School. He served as an Army corporal during World War I and spent four years following the war teaching in China at the Shanghai American School (1921-1925). He then returned to Berea College, earning three Bachelor of Arts degrees by 1926. He also earned a Master of Arts degree from the University of Kentucky in...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1855 - 1985; Other: Majority of material found in 1958
John Courter Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.11
Abstract
John Courter was an organist, carillonneur, and professor of music at Berea College. Courter joined the Berea College faculty in 1971 as a teacher and organist. After retiring from teaching in 2007, he continued to serve as College Organist and was also the College Carillonneur. In addition, to work at the Courter was the organist at Union Church and a long-time contributor to the music of St. Clare Catholic Church, both in Berea.
A native of Lansing, Michigan, Courter earned a bachelor’s...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: c. 1980-2010
John F. Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.46
Abstract
John Franklin Smith taught in both the Berea College Academy School and the Normal School from 1911 to 1931. Originally drawn to Berea to teach Rural Social Science, Smith also served as a publicity agent for serveral years and directed the College Sunday School for fifteen years. Smith was a prolific writer, including a poet. Smith retired from Berea in 1931 due to illness.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1920-1931
John F. Smith Traditional Music Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0006 SAA 005
Abstract
John F. Smith taught in the Berea College Normal School. As part of his Composition and Rhetoric course, Smith asked students to write down the names of banjo and fiddle songs and tunes known to them in their home districts of eastern Kentucky and Tennessee. The results are a large, varied body of material that includes ballads, songs, fiddle and banjo tunes, and games. Several students also included lists of musical instruments present in their home communities and descriptions of music...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1915-1940; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1940
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
Julia Allen Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.01
Abstract
Julia Allen (1896-1974) was recruited to Berea College in 1932 as Assistant Dean of Women to succeed Katherine Bowersox, who had been Dean of Women since 1907. A Kentucky native, Allen studied at both Mt. Holyoke and the University of Chicago. Allen also had worked in a factory, tutored Italian children in Chicago, and directed YWCA summer camps. For five years she had taught Chinese girls at a mission school in Nanking. Her genuine interest in the students, her humor, intellect, and strong...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1935-1974; Other: Majority of material found within 1935-1939
Lena M. Elkin Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.18
Abstract
Lena M. Elkin was born in Berea, Kentucky October 24, 1904 and attended Berea College Training, Berea College Grammar School, Berea College Normal, Berea College High School, and Eastern State Teachers College.
Weaving was extremely important in Ms. Elkin’s life. During the 1930s she taught weaving for two summer terms at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, and another summer at University Of Florida Extension Service’s Camp Roosevelt at Ocala. She was production supervisor...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1905-1986; Other: Majority of material found in 1928-1937
Long Range Planning Committees
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.18
Abstract
See Arrangement Notes
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1969-1987
Louis C. Karpinski Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.29
Abstract
Louis Charles Karpinski (1878 –1956) was an American mathematician born in Rochester, New York. Karpinski received a Teacher’s Diploma from Oswego State Normal School in 1897. In 1898, he went to Kentucky to teach at the normal department of Berea College. He would leave Berea in 1899 to enter Cornell University and would go on to receive his Dr. Phil. Nat. from the American College of the Kaiser Wilhelms-Universitat zu Strassburg in 1903. He also studied (1909–1910) at Columbia, where...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: c. 1906-1940
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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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