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American Friends Service Committee/Prince Edward County Schools Students
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.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1959-1963
Augustus Noah May Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.66
Abstract
Augustus Noah May (1876- 1944), a Magoffin County native, graduated from the Berea College Normal School in 1902 and went on to attend the Sloyd Training School in Boston in 1903. May returned to Berea in December of 1903 to teach Sloyd and Model School studies. May would hold positions at Berea, in the Model and Foundation Schools, teaching woodwork, Sloyd, and manual training and drawing until 1919 when he became a professor of Industrial Education at the University of Kentucky.
Noah May...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1904-1944
Berea College Campus Calendars
Collection
Identifier: RG 12-12.06
Scope and Contents
An assortment of calendars, including the official academic calendar for the College. Also included in this series are bi-weekly calendars of events and historical calendars of the Foundation and Lower Division Schools.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1908-
College, Academy, and Foundation Faculty
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.01
Abstract
Official records of the Berea College, Academy, and Foundation faculty including meeting minutes and agendas, curriculum reviews and committee notes, reports, memoranduc, and general faculty information.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1868 -
Edwin Michael Hoffman Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.25
Abstract
Born in 1884 in South Dakota, Edwin Michael Hoffman, known as Michael, graduated from Oberlin College in 1907 with a B.A. Following graduation, he worked for the YMCA and, in 1914, married Mary Lindsay (Oberlin, 1910). During WWI, he served on a mission to Manchuria as a YMCA officer attached to US forces. In 1925, Hoffman joined the staff of the Foundation School of Berea College where he was an instructor in Science and Bible. In 1936, he received his MA from Columbia University (Union...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: c. 1920s-1982
Faculty Advisory Council of Berea College
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.09
Abstract
First meeting in 1939, the Faculty Advisory Council (often called Adivsory Council) was established to provide a democratic means of communication on matters of mutual interest to several faculties, the Labor Group, the President, and the Board of Trustees. Membership on the council included the President, academic Deans, three elected members from each of the Faculties (Upper, Lower, and Foundation), and three elected members from the Labor Group. Elisabeth Peck and May B. Smith were the...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1924-1984
Foundation School
Collection — Container: Oversized Folder 1
Identifier: RG 06-6.06
Abstract
Records of the Berea College affiliated Foundation School
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1917-2006
Jim Adams Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.34
Abstract
Jim Adams attended the Berea College affiliated Foundation School in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1970; Other: Date acquired: 12/28/1987
Roy N. Walters Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.54
Abstract
Born in West Virginia, Roy N. Walters graduated from Berea College with a BA in Sociology in 1927 and began teaching printing classes for the Foundation School. He would quickly become a full-time teacher for the school and its Dean in1943. Walters served as Dean of the Foundation School until his retirement in 1968. Until 1958, Walters also served as the Dean of Men.
While a student at Berea College, Walters worked in the Printing Department. Immediately following graduation he became...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1927-1993
Self-Study Commission
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.23
Abstract
Reorganization of Berea College in 1938 lead to the instititution being formally divided into three schools: the Foundation School (1st through 10th grade), the Lower Division (Grades 11-12, first two years of college) and Upper Division (third and fourth year of college). Following further evaluation in 1942, and a five-year process of change, the institution was again reorganized in 1947 into the Fundation School (elementary through 12th grade, with vocational emphasis for stundents not...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1938-1950