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Louis C. Karpinski Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.29
Abstract
Louis Charles Karpinski (1878 –1956) was an American mathematician born in Rochester, New York. Karpinski received a Teacher’s Diploma from Oswego State Normal School in 1897. In 1898, he went to Kentucky to teach at the normal department of Berea College. He would leave Berea in 1899 to enter Cornell University and would go on to receive his Dr. Phil. Nat. from the American College of the Kaiser Wilhelms-Universitat zu Strassburg in 1903. He also studied (1909–1910) at Columbia, where...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: c. 1906-1940
Lucille Cooper Photographic Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.09
Abstract
Lucille Cooper taught Home Economics at Berea College in the 1950s.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1953-1954
March on Frankfort
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.30
Abstract
On Thursday, March 5, 1964, 170 Berea students and 30 faculty and townspeople joined approximately 10,000 other demonstrators for a March on Frankfort. At the March, demonstrators listened to speeches by Frank Stanley Jr., Martin Luther King, Jr., Jackie Robinson, D.E. King, and Ralph Abernathy. Speakers pleaded for the Governor Breathitt and state legislature to consider seriously the House-sponsored Public Accomodations Bill.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1964
Mary Elizabeth Welsh Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.57
Abstract
Ms. Welsh was born on October 19, 1862 in Gloucester, Massachusetts but spent most of her early life in Boothbay, Maine. After graduating as Valedictorian from Gloucester High School in the spring of 1881, she entered Wellesley College in the fall of the same year. After four years of enrollment in Wellesley’s Classical Course, Ms. Welsh graduated with a B.A. in Classical Languages in 1885.
Upon graduation Ms. Welsh taught Latin, Greek, and English at several institutions including the...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1862-1987; Other: Majority of material found in 1881-1952
Mary Longacre Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.63
Abstract
Mary Longacre (later Grimm) served as superintendent of nurses at Berea College in the early 1920s.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in c. 1920s; Other: Date acquired: 10/22/1993
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
Maureen Faulkner Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.21
Abstract
Born in Barbourville, Kentucky in 1903, Maureen Faulkner received her A.B. from Berea College (1926) and an M.A. from the University of North Carolina (1932). In 1942, after teaching high school in Georgia and Alabama, Faulkner began teaching in the English department at Berea College. During her thirty years at Berea, Faulkner served a summer as Acting Dean of Women, was an active member of many campus organizations and committees, edited the Berea College staff newsletter, was involved...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: c. 1940s-1970s
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...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1968-1989; Other: Date acquired: 12/14/2001
Neil Di Teresa Photography Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.14
Abstract
Neil Di Teresa received his Bachelor’s Degree from the Pratt Institute in New York and a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts from the University of New Mexico. He was professor of art at Berea College from 1962 to 2010. Di Teresa was also a visiting senior professor at Darwin College, University of Kent, Canterbury, England, and a guest professor at the University of Notre Dame.
Di Teresa’s work can be found in numerous museum and corporate collections including Phillip Morris, KY; Ashland Oil,...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1973
Noah Calvin Hirschy Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.24
Abstract
Noah C. Hirschy (1867-1925) was asked to join the faculty of Berea College as Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Science in 1920 (same year Dr. William J. Hutchins was appointed President of the College -- Hutchins and Hirschy had been seminary students together at Oberlin). Hirschy would become a Professor of Botany one year later and serve as head of the botany department until his death in March of 1925. While at Berea, Dr. Hirschy was known as a “real” teacher-- with his Sunday...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in c. 1920s