Berea College
Organization
Found in 359 Collections and/or Records:
Joe Hurt Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.12
Abstract
Joe Hurt was born March 22, 1900, in Pike County, and attended Pikeville Academy, Berea College and the University of Kentucky where he received a BS in agriculture in 1928. He was an agriculture extension agent for 20 years, first in Boyd County and then McCracken County. In 1948 he moved to Mercer County where he operated a farm on Handy Pike.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1923-2005; Other: Majority of material found in 1923-1928
Joe Samuel Barker Autograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0187 HC 12
Abstract
Joe Samuel Barker graduated from the Foundation School in 1950 and attended Berea College (1950-1953, 1961). Barker served in the U.S. Army in Japan and Korea and would go on to, amongst other things, work for the State Department, teach at the Friendsville Academy, and be self-employed. Materials in this collection consist of autographed letters written to Barker (ca. 200 items), many of which relate to a project he undertook to elicit the principal concerns of prominent American...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1950-1963; c.1800-1914
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
John Courter Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.11
Abstract
John Courter was an organist, carillonneur, and professor of music at Berea College. Courter joined the Berea College faculty in 1971 as a teacher and organist. After retiring from teaching in 2007, he continued to serve as College Organist and was also the College Carillonneur. In addition, to work at the Courter was the organist at Union Church and a long-time contributor to the music of St. Clare Catholic Church, both in Berea.
A native of Lansing, Michigan, Courter earned a bachelor’s...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: c. 1980-2010
John F. Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.46
Abstract
John Franklin Smith taught in both the Berea College Academy School and the Normal School from 1911 to 1931. Originally drawn to Berea to teach Rural Social Science, Smith also served as a publicity agent for serveral years and directed the College Sunday School for fifteen years. Smith was a prolific writer, including a poet. Smith retired from Berea in 1931 due to illness.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1920-1931
John G. Fee Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 01-1.02
Abstract
Papers and family records of John G. Fee.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1830-2011
John Hamilton Rawlings Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 01-1.09
Abstract
These are the papers of John Hamilton Rawlings who is associated with the founding and early history of the College.
Dates:
Other: Dummy Date
John Hanson Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 01-1.07
Abstract
These are the papers of John Hanson who is associated with the founding and early history of the College.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1858-1878
John Kessler Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.30
Abstract
John Kessler was commanding officer(first executive officer) of the V-12 officer training school unit at Berea College during WWII. Kessler also worked to organize reunions of V-12 alumni following the War.
Before and after his service in the Navy, Kessler was an insurance salesman. In addition to organizing Navy V-12 reunions, Kessler also helped to develop the Navy V-12 Scholarship and the Navy V-12 Award (scholarships recognizing Berea College students who are able leaders and who...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1980-1998
John M. Ramsay papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.38
Abstract
These are the personal papers of John M. Ramsay, in particular his papers regarding attempts to be classified as a conscientious objector with the Selective Service Board. Included in the papers are copies of his memoirs, personal correpsondence and correspondence with the US government (draft board), lawyers, and others involoved in working for his conscientious objector status, pamphlets, and official government papers.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1950s-2002
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- Collection 351
- Unprocessed Material 3
- Archival Object 3
- Digital Record 2
- Subject
- Students, college -- Berea College 81
- Berea (Ky.) 58
- Education, higher -- Administration 47
- 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
- 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
- Students, Foreign. 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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