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Identifier: BCA 0215 HC 40
Abstract
Alfred A. Gilman was born on August 3, 1878 in North Platte, Nebraska. He was one of eight children, two of whom were from Alfred’s mother’s first marriage. His mother, Mary Hubbard Kramph Gilman, helped found the North Platte Episcopal Church and helped instill Alfred with his religious zeal. Alfred’s father, Platt Jewel Gilman, was a railroad telegrapher who had a passion for gardening that Alfred inherited. Alfred was a successful and mature student who became interested in politics at an...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1865-1966; Other: Date acquired: 08/01/1989
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.52
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Dr. Alice Van Krevelan served as a guest lecturer at Berea from 1936-44, and after earning her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Rochester, she taught at Hollins College and Grinnell College. She returned to Berea in 1961, serving as professor and chair of the psychology department until her 1980 retirement. She was elected to Sigma Xi, a society devoted to research in science, was a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, president of the Council of Undergraduate...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1970-1977
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Identifier: RG 07-7.03
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For twenty-five years, Phi Delta Literary Society maintained an elite reputation as Berea College’s only literary society. However, when in the fall of 1894 “the society became unwieldy and torn by internal dissension,” twenty young men held separate meetings to form a new society. A committee drew up a constitution “which differed from the constitution of Phi Delta chiefly in that it allowed Academy men to be admitted to the privileges of full membership” and the first official Alpha Zeta...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1894-1943
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.23PA2
Scope and Content
This collection is comprised of photographs in various formats documenting Berea College students, staff, faculty, events, programs, campus life, and campus buildings and grounds. The basis of the collection are photographs deposited, between 2012 and 2014, with Special Collections and Archives by the department of College and Alumni Relations, and more specifically its departments of Public Relations, Media Services, and Integrated Marketing and Communications.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: Majority of material found within 1950 - 2012; 1900-2012
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Identifier: RG 05-5.23
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The Office of Vice President for Alumni and College Relations is responsible for providing administrative oversight for securing endowment and annual fund support for the college, creating and disseminating information about the college and leading efforts to expand the circle of alumni and friends who are concerned with the welfare of the college. The Office is currently made up of the following divisions: Advancement Services, Alumni Relations, Annual Giving, Development Operations and...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1866-
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Identifier: RG 07-7.02
Abstract
The Berea College Chapter of the AAUP formed in 1933. For much of the next three decades the goals of the organization centered on improved teaching and curriculum, presentation of faculty research, shared governance and contact with the College’s Board of Trustees, badly needed increases in faculty salaries, and clarity in policy related to tenure and academic freedom. By the mid 1970s, faculty interest dwindled and the organization essentially went defunct. By this time, many of the aims...
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Other: Majority of material found in 1933-2011
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0190 HC 15
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of meeting minutes, membership booklets, founding documents, publications, correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings, yearbooks, event programs and other items documenting the history, activities, and work of the American Association of University Women—Berea Branch.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1955 - 1992; Other: Majority of material found in 1960-1970
Collection
Identifier: RG 13-13.39
Scope and Contents
Materials documenting the American Friends Service Committee's efforts and the placement of four Prince Edward County students in the Berea Foundation School in the early 1960s during the unconstitutional closing of schools in Prince Edward County, Virginia. Materials include articles, paper on the Student Placement Project 1960-1963, research notes of Steve Gowler, and photocopies of documents from the AFSC Archives.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1959-1963
Collection
Identifier: RG 13-13.09
Scope and Contents
Four records showing the connection between Berea College and the American Missionary Association including data regarding Berea College, information on John G. Fee's commission by the Association, and a letter (1867) of J.A.R. Rogers posturing for Berea to be the association's choice for their Normal School in Kentucky.
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Other: Majority of material found in 1867, 1896
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.11
Abstract
Amye Wheeler Howe was a Berea student in the early 1920s. She passed away in 1931.
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Other: Majority of material found in 1922-1925; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1980
