Correspondence, 1925-1935

Includes 1925 correspondence regarding: donations; furnishings in new dormitories/residence hall; erection of water tower; College debt; possible Administration building; workers' house; gymnasium; legal representation; Adolph S. Ochs (The New York Times) donation for student travel/trip. Includes 1926 correspondence regarding: buildings and grounds (grading in front of Women's Union); Memorial tablet on church. Includes 1927 correspondence regarding: construction of Gymnasium; "tragic situation" of excluding "from the College Department this year probably as many fully accredited mountain students as we are receiving." Includes 1928 correspondence regarding: inscription for tablet; correspondence between James Bond (Director Interracial Commission of Kentucky) and R.N. Keenon (General Council, Kentucky Bus Line Association) regarding discrimination in "colored travel in Kentucky" on bus lines (as common carriers); blueprint of the plan of the Berea campus; Rev. James Bond and worthiness of degree from Oberlin College; James Bond writing book needing information about College. Includes 1929 correspondence regarding: Tamblyn and Brown (possible hire to run another campaign); building and location of new President's House; changes to women's residences; Bakery; Mr. Munger donation; scarlet fever epidemic and measles outbreak; Miss Stokes bequest; insurance appraisal of college buildings; Tamblyn and Brown campaign; needed qualities of trustees. Includes 1930 correspondence regarding: stocks; William Embree contributions; blueprint and plans for new President's house. Includes 1931 correspondence regarding: 75th Anniversary of Berea College; fundraising; Dedication of Music Hall; pageant and President Hoover attendance; recruitment of trustees; mechanical engineering for the Hospital wing; building and planning of the new hospital wing; buildings and grounds. Includes 1932 correspondence regarding: trusts; Ms. Creede, exhibit, and fundraising for college; meetings of trustees in New York and Philadelphia; economic depression in the United States; photographs of trustees to hang in chapel; new hospital wing; election of Trustee by alumni; opinions regarding Alumni Trustee; Includes 1933 correspondence regarding: Shedd donation, Lincoln books; state of Lincoln Institute; The Chimes (yearbook); Esther Creede, Anna Smith, how to raise funds/money. Includes 1934-1935 correspondence regarding: grounds, planting of line of memorial trees near chapel; library addition.