Berea College
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Francis S. Hutchins Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.05
Abstract
Francis Stephenson Hutchins (b. 1902), a native of Northfield, Massachusetts, was educated at Oberlin College (A.B., 1923) and Yale University (M.A., 1933). Having worked in China as an undergraduate, Hutchins returned to China as an instructor in 1925 as part of the Yale-in-China Association's educational mission. Forced to leave China in 1939 during the Japanese invasion, Hutchins was appointed president of Berea College to succeed his father—William J. Hutchins. Hutchins served as...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1924-1979
John Bell Stephenson Papers, 1984-1994
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.07
Abstract
John Bell Stephenson (1937-1994) was born in Staunton, Virginia, to Louis Stephenson and Edna Moles Stephenson. Stephenson earned a B.A. in sociology in 1959 from the College of William and Mary and his M.A. in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1961. From 1961 until 1964 hetaught at Lees-McRae College in Banner Elk, North Carolina, where he met and married his colleague Jane Ellen Baucom. During his time in Banner Elk, John Stephenson developed a passion to...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1984 - 1994
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
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- China -- Missionaries. 1
- China -- Politics. 1
- Day Law (Kentucky). 1
- Education, Higher -- Segregation. 1
- Education, higher -- Afro-Americans. 1
- Hand weaving -- Appalachian Region -- History. 1
- Hand weaving. 1
- Handweaving -- Patterns. 1
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