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Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.06
Scope and Contents
These are the papers of A.A. Burleigh, one of the first African Americans to attend and graduate from Berea College. Materials include biographical information, correspondence, pension applications, medical and death records, and additional print material.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1867-1938
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.62
Abstract
Albert Greer Weidler (1882-1957) served as Berea College’s Dean of Labor (1918-1948) and professor (primarily of Economics and Sociology) (1918-1952). Weidler organized and expanded Berea’s labor program and began the tradition of a campus wide Labor Day celebration. Weidler’s wife, Josephine Mary Corbin (1877-1961) taught at Berea in the Academy and Foundation schools.
Weidler received his undergraduate degree from Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pa., in 1902. He completed post...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1922-1956
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.37
Abstract
When created, the Cabinet (or Schedule Committee) consisted of the College President, Dean of Women, Registrar, and Dean (or Assigning Officer) of each of the College’s five departments. The Cabinet acted for the General Faculty in granting permissions affecting more than one department, in assigning class-rooms and hours, and appointing duties to workers that did not fall within the department to which they belonged. The Cabinet also was also responsible for handing out punishments and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1913-1989
Collection
Identifier: RG 13-13.07
Scope and Contents
A collection of materials documenting the history of blacks at Berea College as well as race relations at the College. Materials include clippings, notes, writings, correspondence, College memorandum and notices, and other.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1836-1972
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0167 SAA 169
Abstract
This collection contains over 45,500 images/photographs (dated from 1953) of Warren Brunner’s work.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1953 - 2003
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.54
Abstract
Records and materials of the Francis and Louise Hutchins Center for International Education on the Berea College campus.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1956-
Collection
Identifier: RG 04-4.02
Abstract
In his forty-seven year association with Berea College, Charles Noble Shutt touched virtually every aspect of the college from the placement of closets in Draper building to the organization of the academic departments. His career encompassed the reign of three college presidents and weathered two world wars. Shutt first came to the college in 1915 as a Latin and German teacher. He later taught history and English, and was known as the leading grammarian on the campus. In 1924, Shutt...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1895 - 1966; Other: Majority of material found in 1915-1947
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.25
Abstract
Records of the Child and Family Studies Program (previously known as the Home Economics Department) at Berea College.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1948-2006
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.17
Abstract
In April 1968, President Willis D. Weatherford appointed an ad-hoc committee with the charge of studying various aspects of student life at Berea and recommending to the Cabinet and Faculty modifications and improvements in current policies and practices (including judicial procedures). The Committee on Student Life included student members and served under the chairmanship of Martha Pride. Committee work resulted in a final report containing recommendations for a revised system of rules and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1968-1969
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.01
Abstract
Records of Berea College committees (often ad hoc or short term) that may not be directly or solely sponsored by a division of the college on a continuing basis.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1940s-2010
