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RG 09. Faculty and Staff

 Record Group
Identifier: RG 09
Records and biographical files on faculty, staff, administrators, and trustees.

Found in 63 Collections and/or Records:

Julia Allen Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.01
Abstract Julia Allen (1896-1974) was recruited to Berea College in 1932 as Assistant Dean of Women to succeed Katherine Bowersox, who had been Dean of Women since 1907. A Kentucky native, Allen studied at both Mt. Holyoke and the University of Chicago. Allen also had worked in a factory, tutored Italian children in Chicago, and directed YWCA summer camps. For five years she had taught Chinese girls at a mission school in Nanking. Her genuine interest in the students, her humor, intellect, and strong...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1935-1974; Other: Majority of material found within 1935-1939

Kenneth H. Thompson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.50
Abstract Kenneth H. Thompson (February 18, 1909-December 1, 1981) served in many capacities with Berea College during his 29 year tenure from 1946 until his retirement in 1975. Thompson first came to the college as an associate professor of psychology and director of the office of Veterans Services.  Most of Thompson’s career at Berea was as an administrator—serving as Dean of Men, acting Director of Admissions, Associate Dean of the College, Dean of Students, Dean of the College and Dean of...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1940-1978

Leila Flannery Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.22
Abstract

In January of 1958, Leila Flannery retired from Berea College after serving over twenty-five years in the Alumni Office as the Alumni Assistant.  Flannery was also a charter and active member of the Berea Business and Professional Women's Club.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: c. 1910-1959

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

Louis C. Karpinski Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.29
Abstract Louis Charles Karpinski (1878 –1956) was an American mathematician born in Rochester, New York.  Karpinski received a Teacher’s Diploma from Oswego State Normal School in 1897.  In 1898, he went to Kentucky to teach at the normal department of Berea College.  He would leave Berea in 1899 to enter Cornell University and would go on to receive his Dr. Phil. Nat. from the American College of the Kaiser Wilhelms-Universitat zu Strassburg in 1903.   He also studied (1909–1910) at Columbia, where...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: c. 1906-1940

Lucille Cooper Photographic Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.09
Abstract

Lucille Cooper taught Home Economics at Berea College in the 1950s.

Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1953-1954

Margaret Belknap Allen Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.02
Abstract Margaret Allen was born in Oak Park, Illinois on October 19, 1898.  She received her public school education in Illinois and Wisconsin.  She began her college career at Oberlin College (1915 – 1918), but received her A.B. degree from Wisconsin University in 1919 in t he field of English Education and Drama.  Her Graduate studies where done at Columbia University and Stanford University, where she received her M.A. degree in 1957. In 1944 Margaret Allen was appointed an Instructor in Piano...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1943-1991

Mary Elizabeth Welsh Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.57
Abstract Ms. Welsh was born on October 19, 1862 in Gloucester, Massachusetts but spent most of her early life in Boothbay, Maine.  After graduating as Valedictorian from Gloucester High School in the spring of 1881, she entered Wellesley College in the fall of the same year.  After four years of enrollment in Wellesley’s Classical Course, Ms. Welsh graduated with a B.A. in Classical Languages in 1885. Upon graduation Ms. Welsh taught Latin, Greek, and English at several institutions including the...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1862-1987; Other: Majority of material found in 1881-1952

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

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