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:
Alice Van Krevelan Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.52
Abstract
Dr. Alice Van Krevelan served as a guest lecturer at Berea from 1936-44, and after earning her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Rochester, she taught at Hollins College and Grinnell College. She returned to Berea in 1961, serving as professor and chair of the psychology department until her 1980 retirement. She was elected to Sigma Xi, a society devoted to research in science, was a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, president of the Council of Undergraduate...
Dates:
created: 1970-1977
J.O. Van Hook Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.51
Abstract
Joseph O. Van Hook was raised in Pulaski County, Kentucky and began teaching in a one-room school house in 1909. He came to Berea in 1910 and earned two diplomas from the Normal School. He served as an Army corporal during World War I and spent four years following the war teaching in China at the Shanghai American School (1921-1925). He then returned to Berea College, earning three Bachelor of Arts degrees by 1926. He also earned a Master of Arts degree from the University of Kentucky in...
Dates:
created: 1855 - 1985; Other: Majority of material found in 1958
Emily Ann Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.45
Abstract
Emily Ann Smith served as a Berea College Faculty member from 1930 until 1986 which included her tenure as secretary to the President, English professor, and Chairman of the English Department.
Smith, a native of Mayfield, KY, graduated from Randolph-Macon Women’s College in 1925 and Columbia Teachers College in 1930. In the summer of 1930, she moved to Berea to assume duties in the English Department as an associate professor. Smith remained a member of the English Department for forty-two...
Dates:
created: 1930-1987
Ada Simpson Sherwood Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.43
Abstract
Ada Simpson was born on January 25, 1861 in Carlton, New York but spent most of her early life in rural Michigan. At the age of sixteen, she obtained a teacher’s certificate and became a rural school teacher while at the same time working toward the high school diploma. She married Alva Sherwood in 1888.
In 1905 she was tragically widowed; this event marked the next phase of Sherwood’s career during which she would begin her life-long dream of higher education. Along with her son and...
Dates:
created: 1888 - 1955; Other: Majority of material found in 1912-1952
Lena M. Elkin papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.18
Abstract
Papers and materials of Lena M. Elkin.
Dates:
created: 1905-1986; Other: Majority of material found in 1928-1937
Louis C. Karpinski collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.29
Abstract
Collection of materials pertaining to the scholarly work of Louis C. Karpinski.
Dates:
created: circa 1906-1940
Sally Wilkerson collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.58
Abstract
Collection of materials and artwork of Sally Wilkerson.
Dates:
created: 1939-1975
Euphemia K. Corwin papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.10
Abstract
Papers of Euphemia Corwin.
Dates:
created: 1863 - 1992; Other: Majority of material found within 1878 - 1903
Edwin Michael Hoffman papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.25
Abstract
The papers of Edwin Michael Hoffman.
Dates:
created: circa 1920-1982
Isham B. Chesnut papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.07
Abstract
Papers of Isham B. Chesnut, Berea College Forester (1918-1927).
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found within 1875-1932