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Berea College 1973-1975 Oral History Project Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 14-14.04
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of twenty nine audio cassette recordings of individual interviews, group discussions, and oral presentations that document various aspects of Berea College and community history.There are transcripts for the individual interviews and notes in varying degrees of completeness for the other recordings.The memory time span of the narrators ranges mostly from the 1920s to the early 1970s. The interviews were conducted by various faculty members and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1973-1975
Berea College Faculty and Staff Oral History Collection 1983-1989
Collection
Identifier: RG 14-14.05
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of thirty-five audio cassettes and transcripts of interviews with thirteen Berea College faculty and staff. Some of the individuals interviewed were also Berea College alumni; the tenure with the College of several interviewees dated from the 1930s and 1940s.
The project was initiated by Berea College president, Willis D. Weatherford. The interviews were conducted by various Berea College faculty members between 1983 and 1989.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1983 - 1989
Francis S. Hutchins Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.05
Abstract
Francis Stephenson Hutchins (b. 1902), a native of Northfield, Massachusetts, was educated at Oberlin College (A.B., 1923) and Yale University (M.A., 1933). Having worked in China as an undergraduate, Hutchins returned to China as an instructor in 1925 as part of the Yale-in-China Association's educational mission. Forced to leave China in 1939 during the Japanese invasion, Hutchins was appointed president of Berea College to succeed his father—William J. Hutchins. Hutchins served as...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1924-1979