Berea College -- Affiliated Schools -- Foundation School

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Sketches of Jim Adams.

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Materials documenting the American Friends Service Committee's efforts and the placement of four Prince Edward County students in the Berea Foundation School in the early 1960s during the unconstitutional closing of schools in Prince Edward County, Virginia. Materials include articles, paper on the Student Placement Project 1960-1963, research notes of Steve Gowler, and photocopies of documents from the AFSC Archives.

Abstract Augustus Noah May (1876- 1944), a Magoffin County native, graduated from the Berea College Normal School in 1902 and went on to attend the Sloyd Training School in Boston in 1903. May returned to Berea in December of 1903 to teach Sloyd and Model School studies. May would hold positions at Berea, in the Model and Foundation Schools, teaching woodwork, Sloyd, and manual training and drawing until 1919 when he became a professor of Industrial Education at the University of Kentucky. Noah May...

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Papers of George R. Bent II.

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An assortment of calendars, including the official academic calendar for the College.  Also included in this series are bi-weekly calendars of events and historical calendars of the Foundation and Lower Division Schools.

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Official records of the Berea College, Academy, and Foundation faculty including meeting minutes and agendas, curriculum reviews and committee notes, reports, memoranduc, and general faculty information.

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Ledger of work and writings of Carlos Cortez Coyle (1871-1962).

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Papers of Thomas A. Edwards

Abstract Born in 1884 in South Dakota, Edwin Michael Hoffman, known as Michael, graduated from Oberlin College in 1907 with a B.A.  Following graduation, he worked for the YMCA and, in 1914, married Mary Lindsay (Oberlin, 1910).  During WWI, he served on a mission to Manchuria as a YMCA officer attached to US forces.  In 1925, Hoffman joined the staff of the Foundation School of Berea College where he was an instructor in Science and Bible.  In 1936, he received his MA from Columbia University (Union...

Abstract First meeting in 1939, the Faculty Advisory Council (often called Adivsory Council) was established to provide a democratic means of communication on matters of mutual interest to several faculties, the Labor Group, the President, and the Board of Trustees. Membership on the council included the President, academic Deans, three elected members from each of the Faculties (Upper, Lower, and Foundation), and three elected members from the Labor Group. Elisabeth Peck and May B. Smith were the...