Berea College

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Created as an affiliated school of Berea College, the Academy served as a Senior High School. In 1938, reorganization abolishes the Academy by adding the ninth and tenth grades to the Foundation School, thus creating the Lower Division (Grades 11-12, College Freshman and Sophomore years) and Upper Division (College Junior and Senior years) to the College.

Abstract In his forty-seven year association with Berea College, Charles Noble Shutt touched virtually every aspect of the college from the placement of closets in Draper building to the organization of the academic departments. His career encompassed the reign of three college presidents and weathered two world wars.  Shutt first came to the college in 1915 as a Latin and German teacher. He later taught history and English, and was known as the leading grammarian on the campus. In 1924, Shutt...

Abstract In 1866, the Berea College Board of Trustees appointed a Ladies Board of Care (though no explicit authority or budget accompanied the appointment). The goal of the Ladies Board of Care was to protect the college from negative publicity and it achieved this by writing regulations and meting out punishments on all infractions relating to female students. It also focused on teaching the women of the college appropriate etiquette, monitored social privileges of the women in the boarding hall,...

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Maud Bowman was a 1918 graduate of the College. Her father, James C. Bowman was an instructor at Berea College for a number of years, having come to Berea from North Carolina in 1907.

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Mildred Hudson Hannaford was born on November 24, 1896 in Lynn, Massachusetts. In 1914 she enrolled in Berea College after graduating from the Berea Academy. She graduated from the music department in 1916. Her father was Rev. Howard Hudson, who worked as the Foreman in Woodwork Repairs and as the Superintendent of Janitors at Berea College beginning in 1904 and through Mildred’s time at Berea.

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This is a collection of scrapbooks and photo albums of Berea College students. Scrapbooks and albums are primarily comprised of photographs and ephemera from the students' attendance at Berea College or affiliated institutions.

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Records of the Berea College Testing and Tutorial Services (1919-1996)