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Berea College

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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

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