Berea College
Organization
Found in 45 Collections and/or Records:
New Opportunity School for Women - Berea College
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.16
Abstract
In 1987 the New Opportunity School for Women (NOSW) was founded as an outreach program of Berea College by Jane Stephenson, wife of former Berea College President John Stephenson. Stephenson recognized a chronic problem in the Appalachian region of low-income women needing to be better educated and needing assistance in the search for employment. The mission statement of the New Opportunity School for Women was “...to improve the educational, financial, and personal circumstances of...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1987-1996
New Opportunity School for Women Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0213 HC 38
Abstract
In 1987 the New Opportunity School for Women was founded by Jane Stephenson, wife of former Berea College President John Stephenson. Jane recognized a chronic problem in the Appalachian region of women needing to be better educated and needing assistance in the search for employment. The mission statement of the New Opportunity School for Women is “...to improve the educational, financial, and personal circumstances of low-income, middle-aged women in Kentucky and the south central...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1996-
Perley F. Ayer Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0022 SAA 021
Abstract
Perley F. Ayer, a native of New Hampshire, was educated at the University of New Hampshire (B.S.1922) and Cornell University (M.S. 1947). Prior to coming to Berea in 1947, he had been employed as an extension agent in New Hampshire and as an instructor at Pleasant Hill Academy in Pleasant Hill, Tennessee. He worked at Berea College as supervisor of an agricultural training program in the Foundation School, as a field representative for the Admissions office, and as an instructor in...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1952-1968
Recreation Extension Service
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.45
Abstract
The Recreation Extension Service was formally established in 1937 under the direction of Frank H. Smith with the aim of increasing the appreciation of Appalachian cultural heritage through participation in recreational activities based on traditional folk material. Recreation
Extension services included folk arts programming, the Christmas Country Dance School, the Mountain Folk Festival, the Country Dancers and other recreational campus groups, itineranct recreation services to schools and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1914-1995
Richard Bryant Drake Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.15
Abstract
Richard Bryant Drake came to Berea College in 1957 after receiving his master’s degree from the University of Chicago and his doctoral degree from Emory University. During his tenure at Berea, Drake served as a professor of history and as the chairperson of the History and Political Science Department.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1948-2001; Other: Majority of material found in 1960-1995; Other: Date acquired: 02/01/2001
Richard Sears Research Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0250
Abstract
Richard D. Sears was Professor of English and Theatre, 1967-2010, and the Chester D. Tripp Chair in Humanities at Berea College. He has published numerous books and articles on various aspects of Kentucky history including the abolitionist movement, Camp Nelson, and Madison County. In particular, Sears devoted many years to researching and writing about the origins of Berea College and it founding members and families.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1796-2008
Robert H. Cowley Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.12
Abstract
Robert H. Cowley was born in Lorain, Ohio, on October 25, 1871. After graduating from Lorain High School, Cowley attended Oberlin College, and studied at Western Reserve Medical School in the late 1890s.
In 1904, after three years of practicing medicine, Cowley accepted an invitation from Berea College President, William Goddell Frost, to form a college health service. During his thirty-five year tenure, Cowley served the Berea students, faculty and peoples of the areas surrounding...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1894-1948; Other: Majority of material found in 1904-1948; Other: Date acquired: 05/01/1996
Sally Wilkerson Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.58
Abstract
Sally Wilkerson (born in 1919 in Palm Beach, Florida) spent most of her youth in Middlesboro, Kentucky, before attending and graduating from Berea College with a major in art in the 1930’s. While at Berea, Wilkerson’s student labor positions included taxidermy work for the biology department and general labor in the art department.
Upon graduation from Berea, Wilkerson taught in public schools. She returned to Berea College as a faculty member in 1946. Her first appointment at the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1939-1975
Students for Appalachia (SFA) Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 07-7.06
Abstract
Students for Appalachia (SFA) was established in 1968 by Berea College students to serve the community through programs in arts, crafts, home visitation, recreation, tutoring of school children and serving as referral agents for public service and federal programs. SFA students also teach basic literacy skills for adults and assist those interested in obtaining a high school diploma through a program conducted in homes and community centers. The student lead program would later become a...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1968-1992
Summer Puppetry Caravan for Appalachia Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 11-11.03
Abstract
A Summer Puppetry Caravan for Appalachia was created by director Neil di Teresa, professor of art at Berea College, in 1969. Initially funded by Berea College and the Rockefeller Foundation, the Caravan received additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Kentucky Arts Commission, the Kentucky Humanities Council, and other private organizations. The aim of the Caravan was “to involv[e] Appalachians in Cultural and creative activities, to develo[p] a sense of rapport...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1970 - 1993; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/2009
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- Subject: Appalachian Region. X
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- Subject
- Appalachian Region. 21
- Berea (Ky.) 15
- Education, higher -- Administration 7
- Oral history -- Appalachian region. 6
- Students, college -- Berea College 6
- Madison County (Ky.) -- History. 5
- Appalachian Region -- Economic Conditions. 4
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History. 4
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- History -- 20th century. 4
- Oral history interview. 4
- Oral history. 4
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region. 3
- Appalachian Region -- Race relations. 3
- Appalachian Region -- Social conditions -- History. 3
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Study and teaching. 3
- Berea (Ky.) -- Race relations. 3
- Education, Higher -- Appalachian Region -- History. 3
- Hand weaving -- Appalachian Region -- History. 3
- Hand weaving. 3
- Oral history -- Berea College (Ky). 3
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region -- History. 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
- Folk and music festivals. 2
- Folk art -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 2
- Folk music -- Appalachian Region. 2
- Handweaving -- Patterns. 2
- Kentucky -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century. 2
- Kentucky Day Law. 2
- Medical care -- Kentucky. 2
- Music -- Appalachian Region. 2
- Women -- Appalachian Region. 2
- Abolitionists -- Kentucky -- Biography 1
- African American history. 1
- African American women. 1
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region -- Folklore. 1
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region -- Social conditions. 1
- African Americans -- Segregation. 1
- African Americans. 1
- Antislavery movements -- Kentucky. 1
- Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. 1
- Appalachia -- Description and travel. 1
- Appalachia -- Education. 1
- Appalachian Heritage. 1
- Appalachian Region -- Church history. 1
- Appalachian Region -- Demography. 1
- Appalachian Region -- Economic conditions -- History. 1
- Appalachian Region -- History 1
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Religious life and customs. 1
- Art -- Study and teaching. 1
- Ballads, English -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Ballads, English -- Kentucky. 1
- Basketwork -- Appalachian Region. 1
- 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
- Church music -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Church music -- Protestant churches. 1
- Churches, Presbyterian -- Bedford Presbyterian Church. 1
- Clergy, Presbyterian -- Sermons. 1
- College integration -- Kentucky -- Berea -- History -- 19th century. 1
- 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
- Medical care -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Military installations -- World War I. 1 + ∧ less
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