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Joe Hurt Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.12
Abstract
Joe Hurt was born March 22, 1900, in Pike County, and attended Pikeville Academy, Berea College and the University of Kentucky where he received a BS in agriculture in 1928. He was an agriculture extension agent for 20 years, first in Boyd County and then McCracken County. In 1948 he moved to Mercer County where he operated a farm on Handy Pike.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1923-2005; Other: Majority of material found in 1923-1928
John Bell Stephenson Papers, 1984-1994
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Identifier: RG 03-3.07
Abstract
John Bell Stephenson (1937-1994) was born in Staunton, Virginia, to Louis Stephenson and Edna Moles Stephenson. Stephenson earned a B.A. in sociology in 1959 from the College of William and Mary and his M.A. in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1961. From 1961 until 1964 hetaught at Lees-McRae College in Banner Elk, North Carolina, where he met and married his colleague Jane Ellen Baucom. During his time in Banner Elk, John Stephenson developed a passion to...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1984 - 1994
John F. Smith Papers
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Identifier: RG 09-9.46
Abstract
John Franklin Smith taught in both the Berea College Academy School and the Normal School from 1911 to 1931. Originally drawn to Berea to teach Rural Social Science, Smith also served as a publicity agent for serveral years and directed the College Sunday School for fifteen years. Smith was a prolific writer, including a poet. Smith retired from Berea in 1931 due to illness.
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Other: Majority of material found in 1920-1931
Karl T. Waugh Papers
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Identifier: RG 04-4.03
Abstract
Karl T. Waugh was born to missionary parents in Cawnpore, India, in 1879, and attended primary and secondary schools in both India and the United States. He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan (1900) and Harvard (1906) and taught at Harvard before going on to teach at the University of Chicago and Beloit College. In 1917, Waugh joined the Army at the rank of Major and much of his work during this time focused on developing and implementing an intelligence-testing program to aid in recruit training...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1919-1923
Labor Day
Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.13
Abstract
Records regarding Berea College's Labor Day, 1923- .
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1923-
Labor Program Council
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.36
Abstract
The Labor Program Council advises and assists the Dean of Labor in interpreting and applying the vision for the Student Labor Program. It has comprehensive responsibility for major programmatic changes that affect experiential, non-credit learning in the Labor Program, with specific responsibility regarding labor evaluation, assessment of goals and outcomes, and recommendations for improvements to the program as a result of analyzing assessment data. The Council receives proposals from the...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1975-2004
Labor Program Office
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.24
Abstract
Records of the Berea College Labor Program Office.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1893
Ladies Board of Care
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.36
Abstract
In 1866, the Berea College Board of Trustees appointed a Ladies Board of Care (though no explicit authority or budget accompanied the appointment). The goal of the Ladies Board of Care was to protect the college from negative publicity and it achieved this by writing regulations and meting out punishments on all infractions relating to female students. It also focused on teaching the women of the college appropriate etiquette, monitored social privileges of the women in the boarding hall,...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1866-1903
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...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1905-1986; Other: Majority of material found in 1928-1937
Linda Strong-Leek Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 04-4.09
Abstract
Linda Strong-Leek was appointed the first Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion at Berea College on July 1, 2015. In this role, she works closely with the President and Dean of the Faculty, as well as all other Vice Presidents at Berea College, as they consider how to make Berea College more inclusive and welcoming for all members of the community.
Since 2019, Dr. Strong-Leek has served as the Provost. In this capacity, she works with the directors of the Carter G. Woodson Center for...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2013-2020