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Chemical Demilitarization Media Project Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0205 HC 30
Abstract
Joseph T. Gray worked with Appalshop in Whitesburg, Kentucky, making documentaries, until he decided to work independently. While living in Somerset, Kentucky, he sought funding to produce a documentary on the question of how to dispose of deteriorating chemical weapons stored at the Army's Bluegrass Depot in Madison County, Kentucky. Although he followed the hearings and shot raw footage of interviews, etc., he never received the funding he needed to edit and produce a documentary on the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1970-1993; Other: Majority of material found in 1985-1991; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1993
Chemistry Department
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.17
Abstract
Records of the Berea College Chemistry Department.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found within 1985-2008
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
Chester R. Young Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0111 SAA 111
Abstract
Chester Young was born July 2, 1920 in rural Adair County, Kentucky to parents Joseph and Sarah Young and moved to Columbia, Kentucky at the age of three. During his childhood, Young was a member of Columbia Baptist Church, the Royal Ambassadors and the Boys Scouts, later becoming a Scoutmaster and a Star Scout.Young graduated from Columbia High School in 1938, then graduated from Lindsey Wilson College in 1940, received his B.A. from Berea College in 1943 and briefly attended...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1931-1998; Other: Date acquired: 07/00/1996
Child and Family Studies (CFS)
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
Children of God Oratorio Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.01
Abstract
Children of God: An Oratorio on the Brotherhood of Man is a major choral work commissioned in 1956 by Berea College and the National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America (NCC). A specially created Berea College Oratorio Choir first performed the work the following year in two significant events: Part I only was presented on both Feb. 1 and 2, 1957 at the Cincinnati Music Hall,with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and guest soloists, Thor Johnson conducting. The...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1953-1980
Chimes of Phelps Stokes Chapel
Collection
Identifier: RG 13-13.20
Abstract
Olivia Phelps Stokes gifted to the College ten chimes (Meneely Bells) in honor of President William Goodell Frost’s 25th year at Berea College. The bells were fabricated in New York and the large "F" bell is inscribed: "These bells commemorate the 25th year of William Goodell Frost's Presidency of Berea College and his unfailing, self-sacrificing devotion to the College and its interests."
Installed in Phelp Stokes Chapel in 1917, it was hoped that the chimes could be...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1917-
Christmas Country Dance School Oral History Collection
Collection — Container: Digital Video Files
Identifier: RG 14-14.15
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of video and audio recorded interviews with attendees and instructors of the Berea College Christmas Country Dance School who have been associated with the dance school over many years’ time.
Interview 01 Wayne Allen and Veree Woodbridge Interview 12-31-2013
Interview 02 Peter Baker 12-31-2013.
Interview 03 Susan Booker Interview 12-27-2013.
Interview 04 Don Cardwell Interview 01-01-2014.
Interview 05 Brice Carlberg Interview...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1985 - 2013; Other: Majority of material found in 2013; Other: Date acquired: 03/15/2019
Church Women United Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0229 HC 54
Abstract
Church Women United was founded at Berea College in 1943. Berea's chapter of Church Women United was part of the national movement through which any woman of any denomination could volunteer and work together. The chapter met periodically for worship, study, and fellowship. In that order the main activities were WORLD DAY OF PRAYER, on the first Friday in March, MAY FELLOWSHIP DAY on the first Friday of May, and WORLD COMMUNITY DAY, on the first Friday in November. Any offerings collected on...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1943-2009; Other: Majority of material found in 1962-2009
Citizens Review Support Study Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0207 HC 32
Abstract
The Lexington-Bluegrass Army depot (LBAD) was created in the early 1940s. It was not until the mid-1960s that the Army started storing nerve agent weapons at the site. Nerve gas is a general term used to refer to several chemical compounds developed as military weapons. These compounds are among the deadliest toxins known. Nerve agent has been incorporated into a variety of weapons, including bombs, artillery shells, land mines, spray tanks and M55 rockets. Nerve gas is stored at eight...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1960-1990