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Margaret Dotson Foodways Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0238 HC 63
Abstract
This collection is comprised of primary sources assembled by Margaret Dotson, Berea College Associate Professor of Child and Family Studies. The collection was assembled with the intention of assisting researchers examining the past foodways, social history, commerce and genealogy of the Appalachian region. The collection was also assembled with the objective of preserving essential components, records, and primary sources of the foodways of the Appalachian region and provide insight into...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1900-1966; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/2013
Margaret Hay Edwards Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0231 HC 56
Abstract
A native of Appalachia, Margaret (Hess) Hay Edwards was a 1930 graduate of Villa Madonna Academy in Villa Hills, KY and a 1934 graduate of Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio. Edwards taught high school mathematics and English for a short time in Kentucky (including the Villa Madonna Academy) before attending medical school. Margaret entered the medical profession after earning her M.D. from Temple University in 1949.
From 1952-1958, Dr. Edwards, M.D. was in private practice in...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1901-1994
Marie M. Runyon Collection
Collection
Identifier: BCA-0287
Abstract
Collection of personal materials and papers of Marie M. Runyon, Berea College graduate.
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1960-2011
Ira Jay Martin III papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.32
Abstract
Records and papers detailing Dr. Ira Jay Martin III’s work and life as a scholar.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1944-1989; Other: Majority of material found in 1955-1977
Mary Holloway Nursing Records
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0107 SAA 107
Abstract
Mary Finley Holloway (later Mrs. R.D. Coffman) obtained her R.N. from Johns Hopkins Medical Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. In the 1930s she traveled to clinics in Eastern Kentucky as the field supervisor of the Kentucky Commission on Crippled Children, and kept notes on the patients seen at clinics serving 40 Kentucky counties. In the mountains she rode a mule to reach the clinics, and sometimes accompanied patients in need of surgery to hospitals in Louisville. In later years, a relative...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1925-1941
Mary Wheeler Ballad Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0076 SAA 076
Abstract
Born in 1892 in Paducah, Kentucky, Ms. Wheeler was the daughter of a well-known attorney. It was part of a young society woman's education to be trained in music, but Ms. Wheeler took this training and made it her life’s work. She is best known for two books she authored: Kentucky Mountain Folk Songs (1937) and Roustabout Songs: A Collection of Ohio River Valley...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1917-1982
Mathematics and Computer Science Departments
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.28
Abstract
Records of the Mathematics and Computer Science Program at Berea College.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 2013-2014
Matthew Saderholm Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 04-4.08
Abstract
Dr. Matthew Saderholm was appointed dean of faculty following a recommendation of the dean selection committee in May 2019.
A 1992 Berea College graduate, Matthew Saderholm won a Fulbright Fellowship and spent a year studying physical chemistry and biochemistry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, Switzerland. He earned a doctoral degree in biological chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Carol Fierke’s...
Dates:
Other: 1992-2021
Augustus Noah May collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.66
Abstract
Collection containing materials documenting A. Noah May's work and relationship with Berea College.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1904-1944
McCall's Magazine Report Collection
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0104 SAA 104
Scope and Contents
This is a collection containing a copy of the report “McCall Magazine Survey: Our Last Frontier” by Phillips Wyman on the investigation of Berea College submitted in April 1925 to a Mr. Warner, a Mr. Wilson, and a Mr. Burton of McCall’s Magazine. Included in the report are an introduction (as to whether or not a piece should be written about Berea College), “Description of the Mountain People,” “Description of Berea College,” a statement by Dr. Sherwood Eddy to the International Committee...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1925