Berea College -- Faculty
Organization
Found in 98 Collections and/or Records:
March on Frankfort
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: RG 10-10.30
Abstract
On Thursday, March 5, 1964, 170 Berea students and 30 faculty and townspeople joined approximately 10,000 other demonstrators for a March on Frankfort. At the March, demonstrators listened to speeches by Frank Stanley Jr., Martin Luther King, Jr., Jackie Robinson, D.E. King, and Ralph Abernathy. Speakers pleaded for the Governor Breathitt and state legislature to consider seriously the House-sponsored Public Accomodations Bill.
Dates:
1964
Ira Jay Martin III papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.32
Abstract
Records and papers detailing Dr. Ira Jay Martin III’s work and life as a scholar.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1944-1989; Other: Majority of material found in 1955-1977
Mary Elizabeth Welsh Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.57
Abstract
Ms. Welsh was born on October 19, 1862 in Gloucester, Massachusetts but spent most of her early life in Boothbay, Maine. After graduating as Valedictorian from Gloucester High School in the spring of 1881, she entered Wellesley College in the fall of the same year. After four years of enrollment in Wellesley’s Classical Course, Ms. Welsh graduated with a B.A. in Classical Languages in 1885.
Upon graduation Ms. Welsh taught Latin, Greek, and English at several institutions including the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1862-1987; Other: Majority of material found in 1881-1952
Mathematics and Computer Science Departments
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.28
Abstract
Records of the Mathematics and Computer Science Program at Berea College.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 2013-2014
McLain Family Band Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0086 SAA 086
Abstract
The McLain Family Band came to be as the result of an interest in Bluegrass music developed by Raymond K. McLain (1928-2003) while Director of Hindman Settlement School in Knott County, Kentucky where he had moved in 1954 with his wife, Betty. This interest owed much to both family influence and formal academic training. McLain’s mother had been director of Southern Folk Life Studies at the University of Alabama. He had majored in music theory at Denison University and done graduate work...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1968-1989; Other: Date acquired: 12/14/2001
Paul David Nelson papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.33
Abstract
Papers of Paul David Nelson, history professor at Berea College from 1970 to 2005.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: circa 1970-2021
Henry Levy Parker papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.34
Abstract
Papers of Reverend Henry Levy Parker.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1968-1979
Pat Wear Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.55
Abstract
Pat Wear taught at Berea College from 1950 until he retired in 1980. Dr. Wear ("Pat") served as chairman of the college's education department and was a professor of elementary education and director of secondary student teaching. He continued to teach part-time after he retired. In addition to his academic work, Wear was an avid tennis player and was a leading supporter and influence for tennis in Berea and the state of Kentucky.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1955-1979
Perley F. Ayer Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
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
Programs
Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.11
Scope and Contents
Records and materials related to special programs administered by Berea College.
Some records within this collection can be accessed digitally - see detailed description below.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1878-
Additional filters:
- Type
- Collection 97
- Digital Record 1
- Subject
- Berea (Ky.) 21
- Students, college -- Berea College 16
- Education, higher -- Administration 13
- 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
- Appalachia -- Education. 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
- China -- Education. 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
- Anabaptists--History. 1
- Antislavery movements -- Kentucky. 1
- Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. 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
- Baptists--History. 1
- Berea (Ky.) -- Genealogy. 1
- Berea (Ky.) -- History. 1
- Berea College 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 -- 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 + ∧ less
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