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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...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1930-1987
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0198 HC 23
Abstract
These are the records of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, Berea Chapter, founded in 1936.
The Fellowship of Reconciliation (F.O.R.) was founded in Cambridge, England in 1914, and an American organization was established the following year. Its purposes were to oppose war and violence in international relations and to promote alternative means of reducing tension among nations and peoples.
A chapter was organized in Berea in 1936 with Willis Fisher as chairperson. The group was active...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1936-1955
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...
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Other: Majority of material found in 1924-1979
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BCA 0280
Abstract
This small collection comprises a variety of family history resources concerning members of a Madison County, Kentucky, family who lived in the early and middle twentieth century.
Dates:
circa 1930 - 1953
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 — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0268
Abstract
Interviews recorded by Susan Spalding documenting the history of square dancing in Berea and surrounding counties. Also included are selected audio and video excerpts of local dance groups and callers.
The dancing is the type done in a big circle that divides into smaller “squares” of two couples. Listen to Interview...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2014; Other: Majority of material found in 2014; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1901
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0228 HC 53
Abstract
The Moran family was an early non-native settler of the Silver Creek, Madison, Kentucky area when John Cleveland Moran (1763-1835) and Elizabeth (Betsey) Ann Barnett (1765-1835), along with Barnett’s family members, emigrated to the area from Virginia in the late 1700s. J.C. Moran and Elizabeth Barnett moved to the area with Elizabeth’s mother, Mary Montgomery Barnett (who already had family in Kentucky), and some of Elizabeth’s siblings following the death of Elizabeth’s father Robert...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1805-1953
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0250
Abstract
Richard D. Sears was Professor of English and Theatre, 1967-2010, and the Chester D. Tripp Chair in Humanities at Berea College. He has published numerous books and articles on various aspects of Kentucky history including the abolitionist movement, Camp Nelson, and Madison County. In particular, Sears devoted many years to researching and writing about the origins of Berea College and it founding members and families.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1796-2008
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.48
Abstract
Robert Finley Spence graduated from the Berea College Foundation School and completed the Agricultural course of the Vocational School at Berea in 1914 before starting a forty year career as extension agent for Southern Madison and Rockcastle counties, Kentucky. Spence also taught courses at Berea College, worked with the Vocational School, and was heavily involved with the 4-H Club and other organizations in Kentucky. After retiring from his County Agent position in 1954, Spence became...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1915-1964
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0204 HC 29
Scope and Contents
Promotional flyers, contact lists, and financial records documenting Second Nature Recycling, a Berea community organization that sought to raise public awareness of the need for a community waste recycling plan.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1981-1987
