Berea College
Organization
Found in 359 Collections and/or Records:
Economics and Business Department
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.19
Abstract
Records of the Berea College Economics and Business Program
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1945-2018
Education Department
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.20
Abstract
Records of the Education Department at Berea College.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1937-2017
Edwards Scapbook, Part I
Digital Record
Identifier: Digital Object ID ##v5b4bc
Edwin Michael Hoffman Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.25
Abstract
Born in 1884 in South Dakota, Edwin Michael Hoffman, known as Michael, graduated from Oberlin College in 1907 with a B.A. Following graduation, he worked for the YMCA and, in 1914, married Mary Lindsay (Oberlin, 1910). During WWI, he served on a mission to Manchuria as a YMCA officer attached to US forces. In 1925, Hoffman joined the staff of the Foundation School of Berea College where he was an instructor in Science and Bible. In 1936, he received his MA from Columbia University (Union...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: c. 1920s-1982
Elisabeth Sinclair Peck Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.35
Abstract
Elisabeth Sinclair Peck joined the Berea College faculty in 1912 and taught history until her retirement in 1953. Upon her retirement, she was appointed college historian by President Weatherford. She served in this role until her death in 1968. A prolific writer, Peck published numerous books on a range of topics—many involving the history and work of Berea College.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1912-1968
Emily Ann Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.45
Abstract
Emily Ann Smith served as a Berea College Faculty member from 1930 until 1986 which included her tenure as secretary to the President, English professor, and Chairman of the English Department.
Smith, a native of Mayfield, KY, graduated from Randolph-Macon Women’s College in 1925 and Columbia Teachers College in 1930. In the summer of 1930, she moved to Berea to assume duties in the English Department as an associate professor. Smith remained a member of the English Department for forty-two...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1930-1987
English, Theatre and Communications Department
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 06-6.21
Abstract
Records of the Berea College English, Theatre and Communications Department
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1920-2023
Entrepreneurship for the Public Good (EPG)
Collection — 6.12 Oversized Posters
Identifier: RG 06-6.12.6
Abstract
Records of the Entrepreneurship for the Public Good (EPG) program at Berea College.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2005-2023
E.O. Robinson Mountain Fund Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0021 SAA 020
Abstract
The E.O. Robinson Mountain Fund was incorporated June 27, 1922, by Edward O. Robinson, Frederick W. Mowbray, Edward C. O'Rear, and W.H. Hyden. That year Robinson had retired from the presidency of the Mowbray-Robinson Lumber Company in Cincinnati, where he had made a fortune in the World War I lumber boom.
Robinson and Mowbray entered the lumber business in 1908 with the purchase of approximately 16,000 acres of timberland in eastern Kentucky's Breathitt, Knott, and Perry counties. ...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1922-1978
Ethical Concerns in Investments Committee and On-Campus Advisory Committee on Ethical Investment Concerns
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.12
Abstract
The Ethical Concerns in Investments Committee was charged with creating policy and procedural recommendations relating to ethical investment concerns. The committee was created after 1981 in response to campus concerns and questions of college investments particularly as they relate to apartheid South Africa. The committee was made up of the Board's Investment Committee plus ad hoc members.
In October of 1983 the Board of Trustees adopted a policy relating to ethical investment concerns. In...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1978-1998
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- Collection 352
- Archival Object 3
- Unprocessed Material 2
- Digital Record 2
- Subject
- Students, college -- Berea College 81
- Berea (Ky.) 58
- Education, higher -- Administration 46
- Appalachian Region. 21
- Berea College -- Affiliated Schools -- Academy School 11
- Oral history. 9
- Madison County (Ky.) -- History. 8
- Oral history -- Berea College (Ky). 8
- Oral history interview. 8
- Abolitionists 6
- Berea (Ky.) -- Race relations. 6
- Oral history -- Appalachian region. 6
- Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. 5
- Science -- Study and Teaching 5
- African Americans -- Education -- Kentucky. 4
- Appalachian Region -- Economic Conditions. 4
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History. 4
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- History -- 20th century. 4
- Kentucky Day Law. 4
- Students -- Societies, etc. 4
- Students, Afro-American -- Berea College 4
- Students, Foreign. 4
- African American history. 3
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region. 3
- Antislavery movements -- Kentucky. 3
- Appalachian Region -- Race relations. 3
- Appalachian Region -- Social conditions -- History. 3
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Study and teaching. 3
- Art -- Study and teaching. 3
- Berea (Ky.) -- Newspapers. 3
- Education, Higher -- Appalachian Region -- History. 3
- Hand weaving -- Appalachian Region -- History. 3
- Hand weaving. 3
- Industrial arts -- Study and teaching. 3
- Kentucky -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century. 3
- Rural schools -- Kentucky -- History. 3
- Temperance. 3
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. 3
- Abolitionists -- Correspondence 2
- Adult education 2
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region -- History. 2
- African Americans -- Civil rights. 2
- African Americans. 2
- American poetry. 2
- Appalachia -- Education. 2
- Appalachian Region -- Social life and customs. 2
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Periodicals. 2
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social life and customs. 2
- Appalachian Region, Southern. 2
- Basketball -- Kentucky -- Berea. 2
- Berea (Ky.) -- History. 2
- Berea College -- Academic Vice President 2
- Civil rights movements. 2
- College students -- Research. 2
- Computer programming. 2
- Day Law (Kentucky). 2
- Debates and debating. 2
- Drama -- Production and direction. 2
- Education -- Kentucky -- Harlan County 2
- Education -- Kentucky -- History. 2
- Education -- Study and teaching 2
- Folk and music festivals. 2
- Folk art -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 2
- Folk dancing. 2
- Folk music -- Appalachian Region. 2
- Geography -- Study and teaching. 2
- Geography. 2
- Geology -- Study and teaching. 2
- Geology. 2
- Goodell, Clarissa Cady. 2
- Handweaving -- Patterns. 2
- Home economics -- Study and teaching. 2
- Latin language -- Study and teaching. 2
- Librarians. 2
- Madison County (Ky.) -- Newspapers. 2
- Maps. 2
- Mathematics -- Study and teaching. 2
- Medical care -- Kentucky. 2
- Minorities -- Education -- United States. 2
- Music -- Appalachian Region. 2
- Music -- Instruction and study. 2
- Navy V-12 Program (U.S.). 2
- Oratory -- Competitions. 2
- Philosophy and religion. 2
- Physical education and training -- Study and teaching (Higher). 2
- Pine Mountain Settlement School (Pine Mountain, Ky.) 2
- Religion. 2
- Sociology. 2
- Southern States -- Race relations. 2
- Student activities. 2
- Student government. 2
- Student handbook 2
- Students -- Political activity. 2
- Students, Foreign -- Kentucky -- Berea. 2
- Teacher -- Training of 2
- Universities and colleges -- Finance. 2
- Women -- Appalachian Region. 2
- Women -- Education (Higher). 2
- Women college students 2
- World War, 1914-1918 2 + ∧ less
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