Berea College
Organization
Found in 351 Collections and/or Records:
Chad Berry Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 04-4.07
Abstract
Academic Vice President and Dean of Faculty From 2011-2019. Chad Berry came to the office of the Academic Vice President and Dean of the Faculty in 2011 after serving five years as Director of the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center and also serving one year as Director of the Center for Excellence in Learning through Service. Prior to coming to Berea in 2006, he was a member of the faculty at Maryville College.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2011-2019
Charles Noble Shutt Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 04-4.02
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...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1895 - 1966; Other: Majority of material found in 1915-1947
Chemistry Department
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.17
Abstract
Records of the Berea College Chemistry Department.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1985
Chester R. Young Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0111 SAA 111
Abstract
Chester Young was born July 2, 1920 in rural Adair County, Kentucky to parents Joseph and Sarah Young and moved to Columbia, Kentucky at the age of three. During his childhood, Young was a member of Columbia Baptist Church, the Royal Ambassadors and the Boys Scouts, later becoming a Scoutmaster and a Star Scout.Young graduated from Columbia High School in 1938, then graduated from Lindsey Wilson College in 1940, received his B.A. from Berea College in 1943 and briefly attended...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1931-1998; Other: Date acquired: 07/00/1996
Child and Family Studies Department
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.25
Abstract
Records of the Child and Family Studies Program (previously known as the Home Economics Department) at Berea College.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1948-2006
Children of God Oratorio Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.01
Abstract
Children of God: An Oratorio on the Brotherhood of Man is a major choral work commissioned in 1956 by Berea College and the National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America (NCC). A specially created Berea College Oratorio Choir first performed the work the following year in two significant events: Part I only was presented on both Feb. 1 and 2, 1957 at the Cincinnati Music Hall,with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and guest soloists, Thor Johnson conducting. The...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1953-1980
Chimes of Phelps Stokes Chapel
Collection
Identifier: RG 13-13.20
Abstract
Olivia Phelps Stokes gifted to the College ten chimes (Meneely Bells) in honor of President William Goodell Frost’s 25th year at Berea College. The bells were fabricated in New York and the large "F" bell is inscribed: "These bells commemorate the 25th year of William Goodell Frost's Presidency of Berea College and his unfailing, self-sacrificing devotion to the College and its interests."
Installed in Phelp Stokes Chapel in 1917, it was hoped that the chimes could be...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1917-
Christian F. Rumold Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 04-4.05
Abstract
Christian F. Rumold started teaching (as a tutor) at Berea in 1904 and would later become professor of Chemistry and Physics. He had previously received his LL.D and A.B from the Univeristy of Kansas. In the mid-1910s he would serve as the Acting Dean of the College Department.
in addition to his work at Berea, Rumold went on to become a professor and administrator at the University of Kentucky, Kent State University in 1918, and Western Reserve University in 1931 where he received his...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1914-1918
Clara Chassell Cooper Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.65
Abstract
Clara Chassell Cooper (1893–1993), an author of several books and psychologist, served as Head of the Berea College Department of Psychology from 1951 to 1961. Cooper is perhaps best known in Berea College history as the originator and librettist of the Children of God Oratorio.
Cooper (and twin sister, Laura) were born in Sundance, Wyoming to Reverend Olin B. Chassell and Ella Buckingham Chassell. She graduated from Cornell College with a B.A., earned a...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1950-1993
College, Academy, and Foundation Faculty
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.01
Abstract
Official records of the Berea College, Academy, and Foundation faculty including meeting minutes and agendas, curriculum reviews and committee notes, reports, memoranduc, and general faculty information.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1868 -
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Military life 2
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