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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:

Roscoe Giffin Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.23
Abstract

Roscoe Giffin was a member of the faculty of Berea College from 1949 until his death in January of 1962. He served as chairman of the Department of Sociology.  For the last two years of his life, he was on leave of absence, to serve with the American Friends Service in Philidelphia.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1929-1963

Roy N. Walters Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.54
Abstract Born in West Virginia, Roy N. Walters graduated from Berea College with a BA in Sociology in 1927 and began teaching printing classes for the Foundation School.  He would quickly become a full-time teacher for the school and its Dean in1943.  Walters served as Dean of the Foundation School until his retirement in 1968.  Until 1958, Walters also served as the Dean of Men. While a student at Berea College, Walters worked in the Printing Department. Immediately following graduation he became...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1927-1993

Sally Wilkerson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.58
Abstract Sally Wilkerson (born in 1919 in Palm Beach, Florida) spent most of her youth in Middlesboro, Kentucky, before attending and graduating from Berea College with a major in art in the 1930’s.  While at Berea, Wilkerson’s student labor positions included taxidermy work for the biology department and general labor in the art department. Upon graduation from Berea, Wilkerson taught in public schools.  She returned to Berea College as a faculty member in 1946.  Her first appointment at the...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1939-1975

Thomas A. Edwards Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.17
Scope and Contents

This collection is comprised of papers, photographs, correspondence, personnal items, clippings, writings, and a leather bound photograph album of Thomas A. Edwards, Dean of the Berea College Foundation School and faculty member for twenty-two years (1904 - 1926).

Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1925-1935

Thomas Kreider Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.31
Abstract

Dr. Thomas Kreider taught at Berea College for 35 years, serving as chairman of the English and Theater Department. He also was a founder and president of the Kentucky Humanities Council.

Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1954-1986

Wilbur G. Burroughs Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.05
Abstract Wilbur Greeley Burroughs was born in Shortsville, New York on December 7, 1886 to Joseph B. and Emma Greeley Burroughs.  Wilbur and his younger brother, Wallace, attended Oberlin where he received his A.B. in 1909 (Phi Beta Kappa) and A.M. in 1911. Burroughs founded the Geology department at Berea College in 1920 and went on to receive his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1932. In 1927, Burroughs was elected president of the Kentucky Academy of Science. This collection consists of Burroughs...
Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1927-1959

William Eleazar Barton Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.04
Abstract William E. Barton attended Berea College from 1880 to 1885 (B.S.) and married Esther Treat Bushnell—a Berea elementary teacher—upon graduation from college. Barton was a circuit pastor in Robbins, Tennessee, until 1887.   From 1887 through 1890 Barton was a pastor in Litchfield, Ohio, while taking courses at Oberlin Theological School. Upon graduation from Oberlin (M.A.), Barton pastored at Wellington, Ohio, and Boston’s Shawmut Congregational Church. From 1899 until 1924, Barton was the...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1885-1976; Other: Majority of material found in 1895–1925

William Gordon Ross Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.40
Abstract William Ross Gordon began teaching at Berea in 1931 as a teacher in the Foundation-Junior High School.  In 1932 he was promoted to the college department where he spent the next 36 years teaching philosophy and religion.  Born in 1900 in South Carolina, Ross served in the United States Army from 1918 until 1922.  He later secured his bachelor's degree from Drury College and in 1930 received his Bachelor of Divinity from the Union Seminary in New York.  His Ph.D. in philosophy was granted by...
Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1940-1990

William H. Robe Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.61
Abstract William H. Robe was an ordained Baptist minister (1888) who later taught woodworking at Berea College from 1893 until 1898.  Robe was married to Mary R. Robe and they had a daughter, Mary Hannah Robe Staats.  Robe lived in Berea for much of his life and owned land, although he was not a native Berean.  He was a Civil War veteran and Commander of the Captain James West Post, No. 171, Dept. of KY, for the Grand Army of the Republic, an association of men who served as Union soldiers during the...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1888 - 1996; Other: Majority of material found in 1888-1904

William J. Schafer Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.41
Abstract William J. (Bill) Schafer was a Professor of English from 1964 to 2002 at Berea College, where he became the Chester D. Tripp Professor of Humanities.  Schafer’s publications included academic articles on American literature, jazz reviews, fiction, personal essays, a co-edited online periodical (Journal of Provincial Thought) and four books on various forms of popular music (rock, ragtime, New Orleans marching bands, and the music of Jelly Roll Morton)....
Dates: Other: Date acquired: 05/07/2001