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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
Randall Law McConkey papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.17
Abstract
Personal papers of Randall Law McConkey, 1950 graduate of Berea College.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found within 1945-1969; Other: Date acquired: 09/10/2008
McLain Family Band Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0086 SAA 086
Abstract
The McLain Family Band came to be as the result of an interest in Bluegrass music developed by Raymond K. McLain (1928-2003) while Director of Hindman Settlement School in Knott County, Kentucky where he had moved in 1954 with his wife, Betty. This interest owed much to both family influence and formal academic training. McLain’s mother had been director of Southern Folk Life Studies at the University of Alabama. He had majored in music theory at Denison University and done graduate work...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1968-1989; Other: Date acquired: 12/14/2001
Michael and Carrie Nobel Kline Collection
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0258
Scope and Contents
These are records of West Virginia folklorists and musicians Michael and Carrie Nobel. Their work is mainly in the form of folklife and oral history documentation of social issues, communities, events, and people.The collection consists mainly of interview and music performance audio recordings, photographs and interview transcripts related to their extensive work in West Virginia, Ohio, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Massachusetts.Digital preservation of the...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found within 1994-2014; Other: Date acquired: 04/28/2015
Missionary Baptist Study
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0085 SAA 085
Abstract
The material in this collection was gathered as part of an Independent Study project (History 490A) by Berea College student, Andrew L. Hogue in the summer of 2000. A central focus of his work was tracing the evolution of mainstream Baptist thought in South Central Kentucky (Allen, Barren, and Monroe Counties) over the past fifty years. Research resulted in the documentation of experiences and beliefs of several ministers, deacons, and other church members.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1856-2000; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/2000
Model School
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.07
Abstract
Official records of the Berea College Model School.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1899-1909
Lonnie and Twyla Money collection
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0293
Abstract
Collection documenting the Jakob Mani and Sussana Mani-Mati family in the Swiss community of East Bernstadt, Laurel County, Kentucky.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1882 - 1988
Moran Family Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0228 HC 53
Abstract
The Moran family was an early non-native settler of the Silver Creek, Madison, Kentucky area when John Cleveland Moran (1763-1835) and Elizabeth (Betsey) Ann Barnett (1765-1835), along with Barnett’s family members, emigrated to the area from Virginia in the late 1700s. J.C. Moran and Elizabeth Barnett moved to the area with Elizabeth’s mother, Mary Montgomery Barnett (who already had family in Kentucky), and some of Elizabeth’s siblings following the death of Elizabeth’s father Robert...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1805-1953