Berea College
Organization
Found in 363 Collections and/or Records:
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
Mathematics and Computer Science Departments
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.28
Abstract
Records of the Mathematics and Computer Science Program at Berea College.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 2013-2014
Matthew Saderholm Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 04-4.08
Abstract
Dr. Matthew Saderholm was appointed dean of faculty following a recommendation of the dean selection committee in May 2019.
A 1992 Berea College graduate, Matthew Saderholm won a Fulbright Fellowship and spent a year studying physical chemistry and biochemistry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, Switzerland. He earned a doctoral degree in biological chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Carol Fierke’s...
Dates:
Other: 1992-2021
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
Maureen Faulkner Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.21
Abstract
Born in Barbourville, Kentucky in 1903, Maureen Faulkner received her A.B. from Berea College (1926) and an M.A. from the University of North Carolina (1932). In 1942, after teaching high school in Georgia and Alabama, Faulkner began teaching in the English department at Berea College. During her thirty years at Berea, Faulkner served a summer as Acting Dean of Women, was an active member of many campus organizations and committees, edited the Berea College staff newsletter, was involved...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: c. 1940s-1970s
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
Mildred Hudson Hannaford Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.09
Abstract
Mildred Hudson Hannaford was born on November 24, 1896 in Lynn, Massachusetts. In 1914 she enrolled in Berea College after graduating from the Berea Academy. She graduated from the music department in 1916. Her father was Rev. Howard Hudson, who worked as the Foreman in Woodwork Repairs and as the Superintendent of Janitors at Berea College beginning in 1904 and through Mildred’s time at Berea.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1919-1923; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/2012
Model School
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.07
Abstract
Official records of the Berea College Model School.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1899-1909
Mountain Day
Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.12
Abstract
The first Mountain Day at Berea College was observed in 1875 for “enjoying the Fall colors and other natural wonders in the immediate vicinity and to provide a campus holiday free of classes and non-essential labor.” It has become an annual tradition and in recent years groups -such as the Berea College Choir- sing to greet the rising of the sun. Mountain Day activities include climbing the Pinnacles, face-painting, winning prizes from various campus organizations and clubs, and dying...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1913-
Music Department
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.29
Abstract
Records of the Berea College Music Department dating back to 1879.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: Majority of material found in 1879-2020
Additional filters:
- Type
- Collection 351
- Digital Record 6
- Unprocessed Material 3
- Archival Object 3
- Subject
- Students, college -- Berea College 81
- Berea (Ky.) 58
- Education, higher -- Administration 47
- Appalachian Region. 21
- Berea College -- Affiliated Schools -- Academy School 11
- Oral history. 9
- Madison County (Ky.) -- History. 8
- Oral history -- Berea College (Ky). 8
- Oral history interview. 8
- Abolitionists 6
- Berea (Ky.) -- Race relations. 6
- Oral history -- Appalachian region. 6
- Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. 5
- Science -- Study and Teaching 5
- African Americans -- Education -- Kentucky. 4
- Appalachian Region -- Economic Conditions. 4
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History. 4
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- History -- 20th century. 4
- Kentucky Day Law. 4
- Students -- Societies, etc. 4
- Students, Afro-American -- Berea College 4
- African American history. 3
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region. 3
- Antislavery movements -- Kentucky. 3
- Appalachian Region -- Race relations. 3
- Appalachian Region -- Social conditions -- History. 3
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Study and teaching. 3
- Art -- Study and teaching. 3
- Berea (Ky.) -- Newspapers. 3
- Berea College 3
- Berea College -- Academic Vice President 3
- Education, Higher -- Appalachian Region -- History. 3
- Hand weaving -- Appalachian Region -- History. 3
- Hand weaving. 3
- Industrial arts -- Study and teaching. 3
- Kentucky -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century. 3
- Rural schools -- Kentucky -- History. 3
- Students, Foreign. 3
- Temperance. 3
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. 3
- Abolitionists -- Correspondence 2
- Adult education 2
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region -- History. 2
- African Americans -- Civil rights. 2
- African Americans. 2
- American poetry. 2
- Appalachia -- Education. 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
- Basketball -- Kentucky -- Berea. 2
- Berea (Ky.) -- History. 2
- Civil rights movements. 2
- College students -- Research. 2
- Computer programming. 2
- Day Law (Kentucky). 2
- Debates and debating. 2
- Drama -- Production and direction. 2
- Education -- Curricula. 2
- Education -- Kentucky -- Harlan County 2
- Education -- Kentucky -- History. 2
- Education -- Study and teaching 2
- Folk and music festivals. 2
- Folk art -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 2
- Folk dancing. 2
- Folk music -- Appalachian Region. 2
- Geography -- Study and teaching. 2
- Geography. 2
- Geology -- Study and teaching. 2
- Geology. 2
- Goodell, Clarissa Cady. 2
- Handweaving -- Patterns. 2
- Home economics -- Study and teaching. 2
- Latin language -- Study and teaching. 2
- Librarians. 2
- Madison County (Ky.) -- Newspapers. 2
- Maps. 2
- Mathematics -- Study and teaching. 2
- Medical care -- Kentucky. 2
- Minorities -- Education -- United States. 2
- Music -- Appalachian Region. 2
- Music -- Instruction and study. 2
- Navy V-12 Program (U.S.). 2
- Oratory -- Competitions. 2
- Philosophy and religion. 2
- Physical education and training -- Study and teaching (Higher). 2
- Pine Mountain Settlement School (Pine Mountain, Ky.) 2
- Religion. 2
- Sociology. 2
- Southern States -- Race relations. 2
- Student activities. 2
- Student government. 2
- Student handbook 2
- Students -- Political activity. 2
- Students, Foreign -- Kentucky -- Berea. 2
- Teacher -- Training of 2
- Universities and colleges -- Finance. 2
- Women -- Appalachian Region. 2
- Women -- Education (Higher). 2 + ∧ less
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