Box 1

This series consists of documents and clippings, including reminiscences of women teachers at Berea from former students; descriptions of a rally to raise money for Berea in New York; notes by Elizabeth Peck; and impressions of Berea's commencement exercises.

Summary of funds raised by various financial officers, including EH Fairchild and his sons Charles and Eugene.

A letter of E.H.F. and Maria Babbit Fairchild to "their children," W.E. Barton and Etta F. Barton. Holograph and transcript included.

Publicity circulars and advertisements of courses available at Berea College from the first seven years of Fairchild's presidency are collected here, along with Fairchild's history of the founding of Berea and an address by his brother urging individual’s to direct their religious feeling toward social action.

Typed extracts from Fairchild's comments during a conference at Fisk University in 1881 (Dec. 26-28), probably drawn from a printed record or minutes of the conference.

Typed copy of Frederick F. Hall's letter to William G. Frost (1925), Berea's third president; interview with Frederick Hall (1944). Hall's reminiscences on the occasion of renaming Ladies Hall (Pinnacle, 1934); accounts of Frederick and Anna Hall following their accidental death.

Includes list of faculty (2 copies)

Extracts about the Oberlin Lynching from J. H. Fairchild's publications (JH was brother to EH, and president of Oberlin College). (See also Box 1/Folder 3)

Includes recommendations from prominent supporters

From dedication of Ladies Hall as Fairchild Hall?