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Collection
Identifier: BCA 0254
Scope and Contents
This collection contains news releases, reports, brochures, flyers, small published and unpublished items, and other ephemeral materials produced by non-Berea College entities about the history and events of Berea College.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1900-2000
Collection
Identifier: RG 14-14.09
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of audio compact disc recordings and transcripts of sixteen interviews recorded by Tom Chase in 2008. (Click on the red Digital Object icon to hear recordings and read transcripts.) Interviews are mostly with women who played varsity (intercollegiate) basketball at Berea College during the program's first three decades (early 1960s to 2008). The exceptions are three Berea College faculty members who coached and taught physical education (Martha Beagle, Mark...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 2008
Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.01
Abstract
Children of God: An Oratorio on the Brotherhood of Man is a major choral work commissioned in 1956 by Berea College and the National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America (NCC). A specially created Berea College Oratorio Choir first performed the work the following year in two significant events: Part I only was presented on both Feb. 1 and 2, 1957 at the Cincinnati Music Hall,with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and guest soloists, Thor Johnson conducting. The...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1953-1980
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.35
Abstract
Elisabeth Sinclair Peck joined the Berea College faculty in 1912 and taught history until her retirement in 1953. Upon her retirement, she was appointed college historian by President Weatherford. She served in this role until her death in 1968. A prolific writer, Peck published numerous books on a range of topics—many involving the history and work of Berea College.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1912-1968
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.45
Abstract
Emily Ann Smith served as a Berea College Faculty member from 1930 until 1986 which included her tenure as secretary to the President, English professor, and Chairman of the English Department.
Smith, a native of Mayfield, KY, graduated from Randolph-Macon Women’s College in 1925 and Columbia Teachers College in 1930. In the summer of 1930, she moved to Berea to assume duties in the English Department as an associate professor. Smith remained a member of the English Department for forty-two...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1930-1987
Collection
Identifier: RG 01-1.04
Abstract
These are the papers of George Candee who is associated with the founding and early history of Berea College.
Dates:
1860-1920
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.13
Abstract
George Gillespie Dick was born in Ross, Ohio, Buckley County on August 6, 1877. Dick first came to the city of Berea and Berea Academy as a student in 1900. In
1901, Dick served with the College Extension Office as a lecturer and song leader for and around Louisa, Kentucky. At that time extension workers traveled by mule and covered wagon. In the fall of 1902 the college sent Dick to Cincinnati, Ohio, to attend engineering classes at Cincinnati University. Dick returned to the...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1938-1961
Collection
Identifier: RG 13-13.15
Scope and Contents
Histories of Berea College, including a few personal accounts, written by various individuals including many who worked or studied at the College.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1853-2002
Collection
Identifier: RG 01-1.11
Abstract
These are the papers of Jacob Emerick who is associated with the founding and early history of the College.
Dates:
Other: Dummy Date
Collection
Identifier: RG 01-1.12
Abstract
These are the papers of James Davis who is associated with the founding and early history of the College.
Dates:
Other: Dummy Date