Berea College
Organization
Found in 81 Collections and/or Records:
Joe Hurt Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.12
Abstract
Joe Hurt was born March 22, 1900, in Pike County, and attended Pikeville Academy, Berea College and the University of Kentucky where he received a BS in agriculture in 1928. He was an agriculture extension agent for 20 years, first in Boyd County and then McCracken County. In 1948 he moved to Mercer County where he operated a farm on Handy Pike.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1923-2005; Other: Majority of material found in 1923-1928
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
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
Labor Day
Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.13
Abstract
Since 1921, Labor Day at Berea College has recognized and celebrated the value of student work. In 2011, the day was expanded to reflect a Labor Program that is more intentionally integrated with academics and service. Labor Day now provides the opportunity for all Berea students to explore the intersections of learning, labor, and service through a series of events, workshops, and open houses.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1923-
Labor Program Council
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.36
Abstract
The Labor Program Council advises and assists the Dean of Labor in interpreting and applying the vision for the Student Labor Program. It has comprehensive responsibility for major programmatic changes that affect experiential, non-credit learning in the Labor Program, with specific responsibility regarding labor evaluation, assessment of goals and outcomes, and recommendations for improvements to the program as a result of analyzing assessment data. The Council receives proposals from the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1975-2004
Labor Program Office
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.24
Abstract
Records of the Berea College Labor Program Office.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1893
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
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
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 -
March on Frankfort
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.30
Abstract
On Thursday, March 5, 1964, 170 Berea students and 30 faculty and townspeople joined approximately 10,000 other demonstrators for a March on Frankfort. At the March, demonstrators listened to speeches by Frank Stanley Jr., Martin Luther King, Jr., Jackie Robinson, D.E. King, and Ralph Abernathy. Speakers pleaded for the Governor Breathitt and state legislature to consider seriously the House-sponsored Public Accomodations Bill.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1964
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- Education, higher -- Administration 13
- Berea College -- Affiliated Schools -- Academy School 7
- Students -- Societies, etc. 4
- Students, Afro-American -- Berea College 4
- Appalachian Region. 3
- African Americans -- Civil rights. 2
- African Americans -- Education -- Kentucky. 2
- Civil rights movements. 2
- Debates and debating. 2
- Hand weaving -- Appalachian Region -- History. 2
- Hand weaving. 2
- Oratory -- Competitions. 2
- Student government. 2
- Students -- Political activity. 2
- Students, Foreign. 2
- Women -- Education (Higher). 2
- World War, 1939-1945 2
- Adult education 1
- African American history. 1
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century. 1
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- History -- 20th century. 1
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Study and teaching. 1
- Art -- Study and teaching. 1
- Arts and crafts. 1
- Berea (Ky.) -- Race relations. 1
- Berea College -- Berea College Faculty Club 1
- Berea College -- Curriculum guides 1
- Business education. 1
- China -- Description and travel. 1
- China -- Education. 1
- China -- Missionaries. 1
- China -- Politics. 1
- Civil rights -- Madison County (Ky). 1
- College and school drama. 1
- College student development programs 1
- College student orientation 1
- College students -- Employment -- United States. 1
- College students -- Kentucky -- Madison County -- Directories -- 20th century. 1
- College theater. 1
- Commencement ceremonies. 1
- Congregationalism -- Periodicals. 1
- Continuing education. 1
- Day Law (Kentucky). 1
- Drama -- Production and direction. 1
- Economics -- Study and teaching (Higher). 1
- Education -- Kentucky -- History. 1
- Education -- Study and teaching 1
- Education, Higher -- Segregation. 1
- Education, higher -- Afro-Americans. 1
- Education. 1
- Elderhostels 1
- English language -- Study and teaching. 1
- Family -- education. 1
- Handweaving -- Patterns. 1
- Home economics -- Study and teaching. 1
- Industrial arts -- Study and teaching. 1
- Integration -- Berea College. 1
- International education. 1
- Kentucky Day Law. 1
- Latin language -- Study and teaching. 1
- Literacy programs -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. 1
- Literacy programs. 1
- Madison County (Ky.) -- History. 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Nursing -- Study and teaching. 1
- Nursing. 1
- Organizations, campus -- Phi Kappa Phi. 1
- Physical education and training -- Kentucky -- Berea. 1
- Physical education and training -- Study and teaching (Higher). 1
- Public welfare -- Kentucky. 1
- Race relations. 1
- Segregation in higher education -- Kentucky -- History. 1
- Service learning -- United States. 1
- Service learning. 1
- Student activities. 1
- Student affairs services. 1
- Student handbook 1
- Student newspapers and periodicals -- United States. 1
- Student support -- Higher education. 1
- Students -- Societies, etc. -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. 1
- Students, Foreign -- Kentucky -- Berea. 1
- Teacher -- Training of 1
- Theater -- Study and teaching. 1
- Universities and colleges -- Alumni and alumnae. 1
- Vocational education -- Florida -- Ocala -- 1930-1950. 1
- Vocational guidance. 1
- Women -- Education -- Florida -- Ocala -- 1930-1950. 1
- Women -- Societies and clubs. 1
- Women college students 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1 + ∧ less
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