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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.

Abstract Carlos Cortez Coyle (1871-1962) was a self-taught painter who spent the early part of his life in Dreyfus, Kentucky. In 1889, he briefly attended Berea Foundation School where he was introduced to Appalachian arts and crafts through teacher and Director of Fireside Industries Jennie Lester Hill. Coyle left Berea before graduating for reasons unknown and moved to Florida and then to Canada in an attempt to make a living in farming. Drought caused him to make a career change into the building...

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Cecelia ("Peggy") Kunath graduated from the Foundation School in 1918 atteded the College's Academy from 1918 to 1919. Born in Alpena, Michigan, Peggy would marry Herbert Schutte in 1926 and lived her adult life in the Detroit area.

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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.

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...

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Records of the Berea College affiliated Foundation School

Abstract George R. Bent II was born March 5, 1928, in Berea, Kentucky, to George Bent and Eleanor Hopkins Bent. His father was the Director of Customer Services with the Berea College crafts and who, for a short time in the early 1930s, was head of the Mountain Weaver Boys. He attended the Berea College affiliated Training School (1934 to 1940), the Foundation School (1941-1942), and graduated from high school in 1944.  His older sister, Eleanor McVey Bent, also attended Berea affiliated schools....

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Jim Adams attended the Berea College affiliated Foundation School in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

Abstract Joseph Ray, Jr. was born in Berea and was a 1952 graduate of the Foundation School of Berea College.  After attending Berea for a short period, Ray studied at the University of Kentucky where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in History in 1956. Ray would then go on to earn his M.A. at Emory University before embarking on a long and distinguished career as a teacher, historian, actor, and director.  Ray spent most of his teaching career at West Nottingham Academy in Colora, Maryland, where he...

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This is a collection of scrapbooks and photo albums of Berea College students. Scrapbooks and albums are primarily comprised of photographs and ephemera from the students' attendance at Berea College or affiliated institutions.