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Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.16
Scope and Contents
This is a collection of records and materials documenting the life and work of Berea College graduate and civil rights leader Henry Allen Laine. Materials include biographical sketches, copies of correspondence, a copy of "Foot Prints," Kentucky Civil Rights Hall of Fame support letters and materials, and Laine's Kentucky Civil Rights Hall of Fame plaque.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1908-2009; Other: Date acquired: 10/08/2009
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.51
Scope and Contents
A small collection of materials providing information regarding Japanese-American students who attended Berea College as a result of internment or relocation during World War II.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1942-1949
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.34
Abstract
Jim Adams attended the Berea College affiliated Foundation School in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
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Other: Majority of material found in 1970; Other: Date acquired: 12/28/1987
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.12
Abstract
Joe Hurt was born March 22, 1900, in Pike County, and attended Pikeville Academy, Berea College and the University of Kentucky where he received a BS in agriculture in 1928. He was an agriculture extension agent for 20 years, first in Boyd County and then McCracken County. In 1948 he moved to Mercer County where he operated a farm on Handy Pike.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1923-2005; Other: Majority of material found in 1923-1928
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.07
Abstract
John Bell Stephenson (1937-1994) was born in Staunton, Virginia, to Louis Stephenson and Edna Moles Stephenson. Stephenson earned a B.A. in sociology in 1959 from the College of William and Mary and his M.A. in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1961. From 1961 until 1964 hetaught at Lees-McRae College in Banner Elk, North Carolina, where he met and married his colleague Jane Ellen Baucom. During his time in Banner Elk, John Stephenson developed a passion to...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1984 - 1994
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.10
Abstract
John F. Gregg, descendant of John Gregg Fee, founder of Berea College, was born in Bracken County, Ky, in 1850. He graduated from Berea College in 1875 alongside two classmates: John R. Rogers and A.A. Burleigh. He later became a Berea College trustee and was a member of the board of trustees which called William Goodell Frost to the presidency of the College. He passed away in Genoa Ohio in 1931.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1863-1931
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.46
Abstract
John Franklin Smith taught in both the Berea College Academy School and the Normal School from 1911 to 1931. Originally drawn to Berea to teach Rural Social Science, Smith also served as a publicity agent for serveral years and directed the College Sunday School for fifteen years. Smith was a prolific writer, including a poet. Smith retired from Berea in 1931 due to illness.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1920-1931
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.02
Abstract
Johnny Anderson attended the Academy School of Berea College between 1929 and 1931.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1929-1931; Other: Date acquired: 11/07/2005
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.23
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...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1920-1979
Collection
Identifier: RG 04-4.03
Abstract
Karl T. Waugh was born to missionary parents in Cawnpore, India, in 1879, and attended primary and secondary schools in both India and the United States. He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan (1900) and Harvard (1906) and taught at Harvard before going on to teach at the University of Chicago and Beloit College. In 1917, Waugh joined the Army at the rank of Major and much of his work during this time focused on developing and implementing an intelligence-testing program to aid in recruit training...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1919-1923
