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Robert H. Cowley was born in Lorain, Ohio, on October 25, 1871. After graduating from Lorain High School, Cowley attended Oberlin College, and studied at Western Reserve Medical School in the late 1890s.
In 1904, after three years of practicing medicine, Cowley accepted an invitation from Berea College President, William Goddell Frost, to form a college health service. During his thirty-five year tenure, Cowley served the Berea students, faculty and peoples of the areas surrounding...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1894-1948; Other: Majority of material found in 1904-1948; Other: Date acquired: 05/01/1996
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Dr. Robert J. Schneider completed thirty-two years on the faculty of Berea College, retiring in 2001 as distinguished professor of general studies and professor of classical languages. He taught courses in Latin and Greek languages and literatures, and also general studies courses that explored topics in biblical literature, history of Christian thought, history of science, classical mythology, and contemporary fiction. His senior seminar at Berea College, "Science and Faith," allowed him to...
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Other: Majority of material found in 1975-2001
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.
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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...
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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...
Records of the Self-Study Commission (Berea College) that studied and made recommendations regarding the impact of changes created by the 1947 reorganization of the institution.
As a subcommittee of the Strategic Planning Committee, the Subcommittee on the Christian Commitment was charged with carrying out Strategic Question Three of Being and Becoming: Berea College in the Twenty-First Century.
Nineteen volumes of The Berea Quarterly, publication of Berea College. Each edition generally includes articles about people of the region or the college and short contributions under the headings of Personal Testimony, Items, and/or Incidents. Collection also contains a folder of administrative notes and correspondence regarding the publication of The Berea Quarterly.
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From 1939 to the fall of 1954, during a time of ceasation of the publication of the student-run The Pinnacle, students continued to publish a newspaper under the title The Wallpaper.
The Wallpaper, began circulation in 1939 and ran through the spring of 1954. It is noted as being published during the war years in the form of one or two typewritten copies (on long sheets of colored paper) and posted on campus bulletin boards (or the...
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
