Berea College
Organization
Found in 45 Collections and/or Records:
Ira Jay Martin III Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.32
Abstract
Dr. Ira Jay Martin III was a fixture at Berea College serving as professor in the Philosophy and Religions Department for thirty-three years. He was an instructor for two years before being promoted to Assistant Professor in 1946. In the fall of 1966 he was appointed to the Henry Mixter Penniman Professorship, which he held until his retirement in 1977 (becoming an emeritus professor). Martin published several books on a variety of topics in religion. He was the author of ...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1944-1989; Other: Majority of material found in 1955-1977
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
Katherine Jackson French Ballad Collection
Collection — Box 1: Series 1; Series 2; Series 3; Series Series 4
Identifier: BCA 0005-SAA 004
Abstract
Katherine Jackson French was influenced to collect mountain ballads through friends who had attended a lecture—in 1905—at which two instructors from Berea College, Kentucky, spoke about the uncollected ballads in the mountains of Kentucky. She was writing her dissertation at Columbia University at the time and she delayed investigating the matter of collecting mountain ballads until 1909 when she returned to London, Kentucky, to attend her mother who was ill. On at least two occasions in...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1909-1916
Kenneth Thompson Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 04-4.06
Scope and Contents
The papers of Kenneth Thompson is a small collection of records including biographical material, memoranda, materials from Thompson's tenure as both Dean of Men and Associate Dean, and records regarding the March on Montgomery (March 1965) including statements made by the College regarding students planning to attend the march. Also included in the papers are a collection of Dean's Committee Meeting Minutes (1955-1958) and Thompson's records from his work with Pine Mountain Settlement...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1949-1981
Larry D. Shinn Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.08
Abstract
Larry Shinn (born January 16, 1942) served as president of Berea College from 1994 to 2012. Prior to this appointment he was Vice-President of Academic Affairs, Dean of Humanities and Head of the Religious Studies Department at Bucknell University. Shinn also taught at Oberlin College for fourteen years prior to his work at Bucknell. He earned his B.A Degree from Baldwin-Wallace College, his Masters of Divinity from Drew Theological School, and his PhD in the History of Religions from...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1994-2012
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
Louise Gilman Hutchins Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0173 SAA 174
Abstract
Louise Gilman Hutchins was born February 2, 1911 to Episcopal missionaries—Gertrude Carter Gilman and Bishop Alfred Alonzo Gilman—in Changsha, Hunan Province, China. Hutchins graduated from Wellesley College in 1932 and married Francis S. Hutchins in 1934. Louise Hutchins earned her M.D. from Yale University in 1936. After graduating from Yale, Hutchins returned to China to live with her husband who was serving as an administrator for the Yale-in-China program and to complete her medical...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1923-1996
Loyal Jones Appalachian Center
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.12.1
Abstract
These are the official records of the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1965 -
McCall's Magazine Report Collection
Collection — 1
Identifier: BCA 0104 SAA 104
Scope and Contents
This is a collection containing a copy of the report “McCall Magazine Survey: Our Last Frontier” by Phillips Wyman on the investigation of Berea College submitted in April 1925 to a Mr. Warner, a Mr. Wilson, and a Mr. Burton of McCall’s Magazine. Included in the report are an introduction (as to whether or not a piece should be written about Berea College), “Description of the Mountain People,” “Description of Berea College,” a statement by Dr. Sherwood Eddy to the International Committee...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1925
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- Hand weaving -- Appalachian Region -- History. 3
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- Kentucky -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century. 2
- Kentucky Day Law. 2
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- Abolitionists -- Kentucky -- Biography 1
- African American history. 1
- African American women. 1
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- African Americans -- Appalachian Region -- Social conditions. 1
- African Americans -- Segregation. 1
- African Americans. 1
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- Appalachia -- Description and travel. 1
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- Berea (Ky.) -- Genealogy. 1
- Berea College -- Student Health Services 1
- Berea, Kentucky -- Women's Christian Temperance Union 1
- Bible in music -- History. 1
- Birth control. 1
- Bluegrass music. 1
- Breathitt County (Ky.) 1
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Churches, Presbyterian 1
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Marriage records 1
- Buffalo Creek (W. Va.) -- Flood, 1972. 1
- Bunraku. 1
- Carillons. 1
- China -- Description and travel. 1
- China -- Education. 1
- China -- Missionaries. 1
- China -- Politics. 1
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- Church music -- Protestant churches. 1
- Churches, Presbyterian -- Bedford Presbyterian Church. 1
- Clergy, Presbyterian -- Sermons. 1
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- Community leadership. 1
- Day Law (Kentucky). 1
- Distilling, Illicit. 1
- Education -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Education, Higher -- Segregation. 1
- Education, higher -- Afro-Americans. 1
- Fiddle tunes -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Fiddle tunes. 1
- Folk dancing -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Folk dancing. 1
- Folk songs -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Folk songs -- Kentucky. 1
- Folklore -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Freedmen -- Kentucky. 1
- Glossolalia. 1
- Handicraft. 1
- Integration -- Berea College. 1
- Knott County (Ky.). 1
- Literacy programs -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. 1
- Literacy programs. 1
- Madison County (Ky.) -- Genealogy. 1
- Maternal and infant welfare -- United States -- History. 1
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