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Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.07
Abstract
Promoted by the Berea College Extenstion Department, the County Achievement Contest for Eastern Kentucky was a county-wide contest with the aim of organizing and coordinating the work of counties for greater progress and effieciency. The contest ran from August 1, 1922 through December of 1923 and was developed and organized by Marshall E. Vaughn, Superintendent of Extension at Berea College. Counties participating in the contest include: Breathitt, Owsley, Rockcastle and Jackson.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1922-1924
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.11
Abstract
This collection contains the papers of John Courter, organist, carillonneur, and professor of music at Berea College, 1971-2007.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: circa 1980-2010
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.12
Abstract
Collection comprised of the records and papers of Dr. Robert H. Cowley
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1894-1948; Other: Majority of material found in 1904-1948; Other: Date acquired: 05/01/1996
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.30
Abstract
Ledger of work and writings of Carlos Cortez Coyle (1871-1962).
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1921-1942
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0146 SAA 146
Abstract
Cratis Williams was a scholar and folklorist who was an early leader in establishing the discipline of Appalachian Studies. He was an eastern Kentucky native but spent the major part of his academic career teaching literature, speech, and drama at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina.
The audio and video recordings in this collection document Williams' class lectures, interviews, and public performances at Berea College during the period 1971-1985. In varying combinations,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1971-1981
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0056 SAA 056
Abstract
Cratis Dearl Williams grew up in rural Lawrence County, Kentucky, where he began to study the speech, tales and songs of mountain folk, and taught in a one-room school. He became known for his presentations of Appalachian singing styles and dialects. His first wife (m. 1937), Sylvia Graham, came from the same area and attended both Berea Academy and Morehead State Teachers College (BA, 1937). A poet and teacher, her health was fragile. In 1942 Sylvia was diagnosed with tuberculosis and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1940-1985
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.20
Abstract
Papers of John Crowden from his work at Berea College.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1964-1984
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0119 SAA 119
Abstract
Ruel Culbertson (Curley) Collins (1915-1986) played the fiddle, guitar, and banjo in country and western bands of the 1930s-1980s. Born near the Boyd County seat town of Catlettsburg in northeastern Kentucky, Curley Collins grew up hearing the music of his father, Neal, on banjo and his mother, Maggie, on the pump organ at church. He also was listening to country music on records, nearby radio stations, and major network programs such as the National Barn Dance and the Grand Ole Opry. He...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1928-2002
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0184 HC 09
Scope and Contents
Representative examples of American currency from 1771 to 1955. Items include Colonial era paper money, Civil War era currency (including Confederate money), as well as twentieth-century silver certificates.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1771-1955
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.31
Abstract
The Curriculum Committee was responsible for the academic curriculum and programming of the college, with responsibilities for making recommendations regarding curriculum planning, review of programs, policy development, and general supervision of practices, requirements, and services affecting academic affairs.
The Curriculum Review Committee (1969-1970) was responsible for a thorough review of the College's curriculum and for making recommendations for curricular changes. The review...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1928-1992
