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Albert Greer Weidler Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.62
Abstract
Albert Greer Weidler (1882-1957) served as Berea College’s Dean of Labor (1918-1948) and professor (primarily of Economics and Sociology) (1918-1952). Weidler organized and expanded Berea’s labor program and began the tradition of a campus wide Labor Day celebration. Weidler’s wife, Josephine Mary Corbin (1877-1961) taught at Berea in the Academy and Foundation schools.
Weidler received his undergraduate degree from Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pa., in 1902. He completed post...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1922-1956
Berea College Cabinet (Schedule Committee)
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.37
Abstract
When created, the Cabinet (or Schedule Committee) consisted of the College President, Dean of Women, Registrar, and Dean (or Assigning Officer) of each of the College’s five departments. The Cabinet acted for the General Faculty in granting permissions affecting more than one department, in assigning class-rooms and hours, and appointing duties to workers that did not fall within the department to which they belonged. The Cabinet also was also responsible for handing out punishments and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1913-1989
Warren Brunner photography collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0167 SAA 169
Abstract
This collection contains over 45,500 images/photographs (dated from 1953) of Warren Brunner’s work.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1953 - 2003
Charles Noble Shutt Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 04-4.02
Abstract
In his forty-seven year association with Berea College, Charles Noble Shutt touched virtually every aspect of the college from the placement of closets in Draper building to the organization of the academic departments. His career encompassed the reign of three college presidents and weathered two world wars. Shutt first came to the college in 1915 as a Latin and German teacher. He later taught history and English, and was known as the leading grammarian on the campus. In 1924, Shutt...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1895 - 1966; Other: Majority of material found in 1915-1947
Committee on Student Life (1968-1969)
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.17
Abstract
In April 1968, President Willis D. Weatherford appointed an ad-hoc committee with the charge of studying various aspects of student life at Berea and recommending to the Cabinet and Faculty modifications and improvements in current policies and practices (including judicial procedures). The Committee on Student Life included student members and served under the chairmanship of Martha Pride. Committee work resulted in a final report containing recommendations for a revised system of rules and...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1968-1969
Committee Records (General)
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.01
Abstract
Records of Berea College committees (often ad hoc or short term) that may not be directly or solely sponsored by a division of the college on a continuing basis.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1940s-2010
Deans Committee
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.40
Abstract
Committee of Berea College Deans and College Registrar. The committee discussed and made decisions and created policy regarding a variety of matters such as student and campus group requests; registration and scheduling; residence hall and campus life; class, labor, chapel and convocation attendance; rules for men and women; permissions to leave campus; student orientation and advising; leaves of absence, readmissions, and probations; extra-curricular activities and campus events, and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1949-1977
Deans Committee
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.41
Abstract
Committee of Berea College Deans and College Registrar. The committee discussed and made decisions and created policy regarding a variety of academic and campus matters.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1977-2001
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
George Norton Ellis Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 04-4.04
Abstract
George Norton Ellis, three-year Professor of Latin, Dean of College Faculty, and Regent (during the absence of President William G. Frost) of Berea College.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1908-1912