Berea College
Organization
Found in 63 Collections and/or Records:
Leila Flannery Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.22
Abstract
In January of 1958, Leila Flannery retired from Berea College after serving over twenty-five years in the Alumni Office as the Alumni Assistant. Flannery was also a charter and active member of the Berea Business and Professional Women's Club.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: c. 1910-1959
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
Lucille Cooper Photographic Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.09
Abstract
Lucille Cooper taught Home Economics at Berea College in the 1950s.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1953-1954
Mary Longacre Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.63
Abstract
Mary Longacre (later Grimm) served as superintendent of nurses at Berea College in the early 1920s.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in c. 1920s; Other: Date acquired: 10/22/1993
Maud Bowman Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.05
Abstract
Maud Bowman was a 1918 graduate of the College. Her father, James C. Bowman was an instructor at Berea College for a number of years, having come to Berea from North Carolina in 1907.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1915-1948
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-
News Bureau Vertical Files
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.23VF
Abstract
News releases, articles and write ups of the Berea College News Bureau.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1965-1979
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
Roscoe Giffin Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.23
Abstract
Roscoe Giffin was a member of the faculty of Berea College from 1949 until his death in January of 1962. He served as chairman of the Department of Sociology. For the last two years of his life, he was on leave of absence, to serve with the American Friends Service in Philidelphia.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1929-1963
Roy N. Walters Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.54
Abstract
Born in West Virginia, Roy N. Walters graduated from Berea College with a BA in Sociology in 1927 and began teaching printing classes for the Foundation School. He would quickly become a full-time teacher for the school and its Dean in1943. Walters served as Dean of the Foundation School until his retirement in 1968. Until 1958, Walters also served as the Dean of Men.
While a student at Berea College, Walters worked in the Printing Department. Immediately following graduation he became...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1927-1993
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- Subject: Berea (Ky.) X
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- Collection 62
- Digital Record 1
- Subject
- Berea (Ky.) 58
- Students, college -- Berea College 15
- Appalachian Region. 8
- Education, higher -- Administration 7
- Berea (Ky.) -- Race relations. 6
- Madison County (Ky.) -- History. 6
- Abolitionists 4
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- History -- 20th century. 4
- Antislavery movements -- Kentucky. 3
- Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. 3
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History. 3
- Berea (Ky.) -- Newspapers. 3
- Berea College -- Affiliated Schools -- Academy School 3
- Kentucky -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century. 3
- Oral history -- Appalachian region. 3
- African American history. 2
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region. 2
- African Americans -- Education -- Kentucky. 2
- African Americans. 2
- Appalachian Region -- Race relations. 2
- Appalachian Region -- Social conditions -- History. 2
- Berea (Ky.) -- History. 2
- Education, Higher -- Appalachian Region -- History. 2
- Folk dancing. 2
- Hand weaving -- Appalachian Region -- History. 2
- Hand weaving. 2
- Handweaving -- Patterns. 2
- Kentucky Day Law. 2
- Madison County (Ky.) -- Newspapers. 2
- Minorities -- Education -- United States. 2
- Oral history -- Berea College (Ky). 2
- Oral history interview. 2
- Oral history. 2
- Students -- Political activity. 2
- Students -- Societies, etc. 2
- Students, Afro-American -- Berea College 2
- Women college students 2
- Abolitionists -- Kentucky -- Biography 1
- African American women. 1
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region -- History. 1
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century. 1
- African Americans -- Segregation. 1
- American poetry. 1
- Appalachia -- Description and travel. 1
- Appalachian Region -- Church history. 1
- Appalachian Region -- Demography. 1
- Appalachian Region -- Economic Conditions. 1
- Appalachian Region -- Economic conditions -- History. 1
- Appalachian Region -- History 1
- Appalachian Region -- Social life and customs. 1
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Study and teaching. 1
- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Basketwork -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Berea (Ky.) -- Genealogy. 1
- Berea College -- Berea College Faculty Club 1
- Berea College -- Buildings -- Fairchild Hall 1
- Berea College -- Buildings -- Howard Hall 1
- Bluegrass music. 1
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Churches, Presbyterian 1
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Marriage records 1
- Buffalo Creek (W. Va.) -- Flood, 1972. 1
- Canada -- Clergy, Baptist. 1
- Cemeteries--Kentucky--Madison County. 1
- China -- Description and travel. 1
- China -- Education. 1
- China -- Missionaries. 1
- China -- Politics. 1
- Churches, Presbyterian -- Bedford Presbyterian Church. 1
- Civil rights -- Madison County (Ky). 1
- Civil rights movements -- Kentucky -- History -- 20th century. 1
- Clergy, Presbyterian -- Sermons. 1
- College and school drama. 1
- College integration -- Kentucky -- Berea -- History -- 19th century. 1
- Day Law (Kentucky). 1
- Debates and debating. 1
- Disarmament. 1
- Distilling, Illicit. 1
- Education -- Curricula. 1
- Education -- Kentucky -- History. 1
- Education -- Study and teaching 1
- Education, Higher -- Segregation. 1
- Education, higher -- Afro-Americans. 1
- Fiddle tunes -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Fiddle tunes. 1
- Folk and music festivals. 1
- Folk music -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Freedmen -- Kentucky. 1
- Handicraft. 1
- Home economics -- Study and teaching. 1
- Indian Fort Theatre 1
- Integration -- Berea College. 1
- Kentucky -- Education -- History. 1
- Kentucky -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Drama. 1
- Librarians. 1
- Literacy programs -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. 1
- Literacy programs. 1
- Madison County (Ky.) -- Genealogy. 1
- Military installations -- World War I. 1
- Mountain Folk Festival. 1
- Music -- Appalachian Region. 1 + ∧ less
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