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Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.23
Abstract
Roscoe Giffin was a member of the faculty of Berea College from 1949 until his death in January of 1962. He served as chairman of the Department of Sociology. For the last two years of his life, he was on leave of absence, to serve with the American Friends Service in Philidelphia.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1929-1963
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
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.58
Abstract
Sally Wilkerson (born in 1919 in Palm Beach, Florida) spent most of her youth in Middlesboro, Kentucky, before attending and graduating from Berea College with a major in art in the 1930’s. While at Berea, Wilkerson’s student labor positions included taxidermy work for the biology department and general labor in the art department.
Upon graduation from Berea, Wilkerson taught in public schools. She returned to Berea College as a faculty member in 1946. Her first appointment at the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1939-1975
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
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.20
Abstract
As a subcommittee of the Strategic Planning Committee, the Subcommittee on the Christian Commitment was charged with carrying out Strategic Question Three of Being and Becoming: Berea College in the Twenty-First Century.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1999-2002
Collection
Identifier: RG 12-12.21
Scope and Contents
Nineteen volumes of The Berea Quarterly, publication of Berea College. Each edition generally includes articles about people of the region or the college and short contributions under the headings of Personal Testimony, Items, and/or Incidents. Collection also contains a folder of administrative notes and correspondence regarding the publication of The Berea Quarterly.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1895-1916
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 12-12.17
Abstract
From 1939 to the fall of 1954, during a time of ceasation of the publication of the student-run The Pinnacle, students continued to publish a newspaper under the title The Wallpaper.
The Wallpaper, began circulation in 1939 and ran through the spring of 1954. It is noted as being published during the war years in the form of one or two typewritten copies (on long sheets of colored paper) and posted on campus bulletin boards (or the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1939-1954
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.17
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of papers, photographs, correspondence, personnal items, clippings, writings, and a leather bound photograph album of Thomas A. Edwards, Dean of the Berea College Foundation School and faculty member for twenty-two years (1904 - 1926).
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1925-1935
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.31
Abstract
Dr. Thomas Kreider taught at Berea College for 35 years, serving as chairman of the English and Theater Department. He also was a founder and president of the Kentucky Humanities Council.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1954-1986
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.50
Abstract
The papers of Kenneth Herman Thompson, Dean of Berea College, educator, and education consultant.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1940-1981
