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Berea College -- Faculty

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Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

Lucille Cooper Photographic Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.09
Abstract

Lucille Cooper taught Home Economics at Berea College in the 1950s.

Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1953-1954

Mary Longacre Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.63
Abstract

Mary Longacre (later Grimm) served as superintendent of nurses at Berea College in the early 1920s.

Dates: Other: Majority of material found in c. 1920s; Other: Date acquired: 10/22/1993

Richard Sears Research Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0250
Abstract

Richard D. Sears was Professor of English and Theatre, 1967-2010, and the Chester D. Tripp Chair in Humanities at Berea College.  He has published numerous books and articles on various aspects of Kentucky history including the abolitionist movement, Camp Nelson, and Madison County.  In particular, Sears devoted many years to researching and writing about the origins of Berea College and it founding members and families.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1796-2008

Roscoe Giffin Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.23
Abstract

Roscoe Giffin was a member of the faculty of Berea College from 1949 until his death in January of 1962. He served as chairman of the Department of Sociology.  For the last two years of his life, he was on leave of absence, to serve with the American Friends Service in Philidelphia.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1929-1963

Roy N. Walters Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.54
Abstract Born in West Virginia, Roy N. Walters graduated from Berea College with a BA in Sociology in 1927 and began teaching printing classes for the Foundation School.  He would quickly become a full-time teacher for the school and its Dean in1943.  Walters served as Dean of the Foundation School until his retirement in 1968.  Until 1958, Walters also served as the Dean of Men. While a student at Berea College, Walters worked in the Printing Department. Immediately following graduation he became...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1927-1993

The Berea Quarterly

 Collection
Identifier: RG 12-12.21
Scope and Contents

Nineteen volumes of The Berea Quarterly, publication of Berea College. Each edition generally includes articles about people of the region or the college and short contributions under the headings of Personal Testimony, Items, and/or Incidents. Collection also contains a folder of administrative notes and correspondence regarding the publication of The Berea Quarterly.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1895-1916

The Wallpaper

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 12-12.17
Abstract From 1939 to the fall of 1954, during a time of ceasation of the publication of the student-run The Pinnacle, students continued to publish a newspaper under the title The Wallpaper. The Wallpaper, began circulation in 1939 and ran through the spring of 1954. It is noted as being published during the war years in the form of one or two typewritten copies (on long sheets of colored paper) and posted on campus bulletin boards (or the...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1939-1954

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Students, college -- Berea College 7
Berea (Ky.) -- Race relations. 2
Education, higher -- Administration 2
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Madison County (Ky.) -- History. 2
Women college students 2
Abolitionists -- Kentucky -- Biography 1
African American history. 1
African Americans -- Education -- Kentucky. 1
African Americans. 1
American poetry. 1
Antislavery movements -- Kentucky. 1
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. 1
Appalachian Region, Southern -- History. 1
Appalachian Region, Southern -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- History -- 20th century. 1
Appalachian Region. 1
Berea (Ky.) -- Genealogy. 1
Berea (Ky.) -- History. 1
Berea College -- Affiliated Schools -- Academy School 1
Berea College -- Affilliated Schools -- Junior High School 1
Berea College -- Berea College Faculty Club 1
Berea College -- Buildings -- Fairchild Hall 1
Berea College -- Buildings -- Howard Hall 1
China -- Description and travel. 1
China -- Education. 1
China -- Missionaries. 1
China -- Politics. 1
Civil rights -- United States -- History. 1
College and school drama. 1
College integration -- Kentucky -- Berea -- History -- 19th century. 1
Day Law (Kentucky). 1
Debates and debating. 1
Disarmament. 1
Education -- Curricula. 1
Education -- Study and teaching 1
Education, Higher -- Segregation. 1
Education, higher -- Afro-Americans. 1
Folk dancing. 1
Freedmen -- Kentucky. 1
Hand weaving -- Appalachian Region -- History. 1
Hand weaving. 1
Handweaving -- Patterns. 1
Home economics -- Study and teaching. 1
Integration -- Berea College. 1
Kentucky -- Education -- History. 1
Kentucky Day Law. 1
Librarians. 1
Madison County (Ky.) -- Genealogy. 1
Mathematics -- Study and teaching. 1
Mathematics. 1
Mountain Folk Festival. 1
Oratory -- Competitions. 1
Organizations, campus -- Phi Kappa Phi. 1
Photograph collections. 1
Physical education and training -- Study and teaching (Higher). 1
Sociology. 1
Southern States -- Race relations. 1
Student activities. 1
Student government. 1
Students -- Political activity. 1
Students -- Societies, etc. 1
Students, Afro-American -- Berea College 1
Students, Foreign. 1
Traveling libraries -- Kentucky. 1
Vocational education -- Florida -- Ocala -- 1930-1950. 1
Women -- Education -- Florida -- Ocala -- 1930-1950. 1
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