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Identifier: BCA 0160 SAA 162
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Hazel Lee Chrisman was born near Panola, Kentucky, on January 4, 1908. After graduating from Waco High School in Madison County, Kentucky, she went on to earn a degree from Berea College in 1928. Chrisman taught English at Berea High School and later in the Fayette County Public School system. In 1937, she earned her Master’s Degree from the University of Kentucky and taught at Elmhurst College in Illinois and at the University of Denver in Colorado. In 1959, Hazel became the associate...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1959-2009; Other: Date acquired: 04/01/2012
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Identifier: RG 06-6.32
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Records of the Health and Human Performance Department (previously Physical Education and Health) at Berea College.
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Other: Majority of material found in 1914-
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0256
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Helen Beech (1901-1982) served at the Red Bird Mission in Beverly, Kentucky, from July 1925 through November of 1927. Beech, originally from Altoona, Pennsylvania, taught in Altona after graduating from the Indiana State Normal school. In 1925, Beech started her mission work in the mountains of Kentucky as a teacher at the Red Bird Mission in Beverly, Kentucky. After she served at Red Bird, Beech married the Rev. Dr. Chester Stewart Simonton.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1925-2009; Other: Majority of material found in 1925-1927; Other: Date acquired: 07/22/2016
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0026 SAA 025
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Diaries, correspondence, reports, notes, and photographs mainly documenting Helen Dingman's community organizing and educational efforts in Harlan County, Kentucky during the early 1900s.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1917-1945
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0049 SAA 049
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Methodist minister, Hiram Frakes, founded Henderson Settlement in 1925, chiefly as a community center and educational institution. It is located in southern Bell County, Kentucky, a few miles northeast of Jellico, Tennessee. The area was quite isolated at the time and had come to be known locally as “South America.”
Frakes, was educated in Kansas and southern Indiana and before becoming a miniser, had worked as a telegraph operator for the Santa Fe Railroad. A chance hearing of...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1925 - 1984
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0185 HC 10
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Henrietta Child (1867-1968) was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the daughter of Harvard philologist and folklorist Francis James Child. After the death of her mother in 1911, Child moved to Kentucky to practice philanthropic teaching and storytelling. Her first year in the state was spent at Hindman Settlement School; around 1916, she moved permanently to Berea. During the next forty years she made monthly trips to schools within a ten mile radius of Berea where she told stories and...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1897-1977
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Identifier: RG 09-9.36
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From 1895 to 1922, the Rev. Henry M. Penniman served as Professor of Christian Evidences, a field agent, fund raiser, financial agent, and general evangelist for Berea College. He was a close friend of President Frost and helped raise the funds for the·women's Gymnasium that would be named the Woods-Penniman building on the Berea College Campus. After retirement, Penniman continued to preach, teach, and work with the College.
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Other: Majority of material found in 1910-1922
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Identifier: RG 10-10.08
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The High School-College Cooperative Learning Program started in the fall of 1983 at Berea College with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The program continued with funding from both the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Berea College Board of Trustees through the spring of 1993. The program involved outreach to ten public schools in ten cooperating districts and generated a number of programs and activities concentrating on the primary goal of recognizing and nurturing...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1983-1995
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0010 SAA 009
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Collection of materials of the Hindman Settlement School (Hindman, Ky)
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1899-1977
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Identifier: BCA 0041 SAA 041
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Hindman Settlement School traces its origins to education – recreation programs conducted in Knott and Perry counties, Kentucky by Katherine Pettit and May Stone during the summers of 1899-1901. They were funded by the Kentucky Federation of Women’s Clubs and were aided by a group of women from urban areas. Programs were held in Hazard-1899 (Camp Cedar Grove), Hindman-1900 (Camp Industrial), and Sassafras in Knott County-1901. Working in large tents, they offered classes in sewing, cooking,...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1899-1979
