Berea College
Organization
Found in 83 Collections and/or Records:
Health and Human Performance Department
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.32
Abstract
Records of the Health and Human Performance Department (previously Physical Education and Health) at Berea College.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1914-
Institutional Self-Evaluation of Title IX Requirement
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.46
Abstract
In 1976 Berea College underwent an institutional self-evaluation with regard to sex discrimination as required by regulations under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. A committee of twenty-two staff and faculty members were charged with the review. This small collection contains materials and documents created as a result of this review.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1976
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
J.O. Van Hook Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.51
Abstract
Joseph O. Van Hook was raised in Pulaski County, Kentucky and began teaching in a one-room school house in 1909. He came to Berea in 1910 and earned two diplomas from the Normal School. He served as an Army corporal during World War I and spent four years following the war teaching in China at the Shanghai American School (1921-1925). He then returned to Berea College, earning three Bachelor of Arts degrees by 1926. He also earned a Master of Arts degree from the University of Kentucky in...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1855 - 1985; Other: Majority of material found in 1958
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 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
Karl T. Waugh Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 04-4.03
Abstract
Karl T. Waugh was born to missionary parents in Cawnpore, India, in 1879, and attended primary and secondary schools in both India and the United States. He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan (1900) and Harvard (1906) and taught at Harvard before going on to teach at the University of Chicago and Beloit College. In 1917, Waugh joined the Army at the rank of Major and much of his work during this time focused on developing and implementing an intelligence-testing program to aid in recruit training...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1919-1923
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
Ladies Board of Care
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.36
Abstract
In 1866, the Berea College Board of Trustees appointed a Ladies Board of Care (though no explicit authority or budget accompanied the appointment). The goal of the Ladies Board of Care was to protect the college from negative publicity and it achieved this by writing regulations and meting out punishments on all infractions relating to female students. It also focused on teaching the women of the college appropriate etiquette, monitored social privileges of the women in the boarding hall,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1866-1903
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
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- Berea College -- Affiliated Schools -- Academy School 4
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History. 3
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- Kentucky Day Law. 3
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- Pine Mountain Settlement School (Pine Mountain, Ky.) 2
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- African Americans. 1
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- Appalachia -- Description and travel. 1
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- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Study and teaching. 1
- Art -- Study and teaching. 1
- Berea (Ky.) -- Race relations. 1
- Berea College -- Affilliated Schools -- Junior High School 1
- Berea College -- Buildings -- Fairchild Hall 1
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- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Churches, Presbyterian 1
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Marriage records 1
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- Canada -- Clergy, Baptist. 1
- China -- Description and travel. 1
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- Churches, Presbyterian -- Bedford Presbyterian Church. 1
- Civil rights -- Madison County (Ky). 1
- Clergy, Presbyterian -- Sermons. 1
- College student development programs 1
- College student orientation 1
- Computer programming. 1
- Congregationalism -- Periodicals. 1
- Continuing education. 1
- Day Law (Kentucky). 1
- Economics -- Development -- Sustainable Development 1
- Economics -- Study and teaching (Higher). 1
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- French language -- Study and teaching. 1
- German language -- Study and teaching. 1
- Glossolalia. 1
- Hand weaving -- Appalachian Region -- History. 1
- Hand weaving. 1
- Handweaving -- Patterns. 1
- Harlan County (Ky.) -- History. 1
- Home economics -- Study and teaching. 1
- Industrial arts -- Study and teaching. 1
- Integration -- Berea College. 1
- International education. 1
- Internship programs. 1
- Kentucky -- Education -- History. 1
- Kentucky -- History -- Juvenile literature. 1
- Kentucky -- History. 1
- Kentucky -- Textbooks. 1
- Kentucky. 1
- Language and education. 1
- Librarians. 1
- Mathematics -- Study and teaching. 1
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