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Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.13
Abstract
The Academic Program Council has comprehensive responsibility for the academic program, with specific responsibilities for curriculum, policy development, and general oversight of practices and services affecting the academic program. The Council may elect to delegate certain specific responsibilities to subcommittees or members, but all decisions with policy implications will be brought before the entire Council. The Council receives proposals from academic divisions, core course planning...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1994-2007
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.64
Abstract
Ada M. Dinkleman was born on May 22, 1881, in Madisonville (Hamilton County), Ohio. She graduated from Denison in Ohio and taught at Berea from approximately 1908-1911. in 1912, Dinkleman married Emil Bracker, who had served as the acting superintendent of the College gardens and forests during the same time that Dinkleman was faculty at Berea. Dinkleman died in January, 1984 in Illinois.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1908-1911
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.60
Abstract
Wright was the chair of Natural History at Berea College from 1870 to 1872. A few years after leaving Berea, he would be appointed professor of Geology and Natural History at Oberlin College. While at Berea College, Wright also served as the faculty meeting clerk. On September 21, 1874, he married Mary Lyon Bedortha (1846-1877), of Saratoga Springs, New York. Professor Albert Allen Wright died April 2, 1905.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1870-1871
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.19
Scope and Contents
This collection contains personal items of Anna Ernberg, director of Fireside Industries at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky. Anna Ernberg was one of the most visible proponents of the Appalachian weaving revival in the early 20th century. Included in the collection is a Redpath Chautauqua poster, a personal photograph book, a scrapbook of weaving drafts, correspondence, a piece written about the history of Fireside Industries by Ernberg and Fireside Industries brochures, a scrapbook of...
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Other: Majority of material found in 1910-1930
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0197 HC 22
Abstract
Annie Fellows Johnston, born in 1863 in Evansville, Indiana, was a popular children's author around the turn of the 20th century. Johnston wrote the popular Little Colonel series, which was the basis for the 1935 Shirley Temple film The Little Colonel. Most of the characters in Johnston’s' semi-biographical works were based on actual people, places and experiences. For the Little Colonel...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1917-1955
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BCA 0168 HC 03
Abstract
The Anti-Slavery Collection contains essays, addresses, reports, letters, business and legal records, research notes, and other materials collected by Berea College librarians through donation and purchase. These items document the institution of slavery, the anti-slavery movement, the conflict over slavery, and the aftermath of slavery in the United States of America.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1769-1916; Other: Majority of material found within 1800-1880
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0233 HC 58
Abstract
A small collection of early organizational papers from the “Committee to Establish an Arts Council in Berea” and the subsequent result, the Berea Arts Council.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1985-1987
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0191 HC 16
Abstract
Berea formed and chartered its Business and Professional Women’s Club (BPWC) in 1935. There were twenty-two charter members and the first President was Ms. Lucille Gilbert. The BPWC is affiliated with the Kentucky, National and International Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, which was established in 1919.
The main purpose of the club was to evaluate the standards and promote the interests of business and professional women who formed its membership. The club also...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1935-1985
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0170 HC 66
Abstract
After agitating the question of the need to organize a cemetery association and holding preliminary meetings led by Reverend E. H. Fairchild and A.A. Wright, the Berea community organized the Berea Cemetery Association in 1872. The preliminary meetings resulted in the adoption of a constitution, the enrollment of nearly thirty subscribers to the Constitution, and an initiation fee for membership of $2.00. The first election under the Constitution was held in the Fall of 1872 and resulted...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1872-1996
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0180 HC 05
Abstract
The Village of Berea was incorporated as a 6th class city on May 9, 1890, at a meeting held in the office of the treasurer of Berea College, P.D. Dodge. The location suggests that the College community initiated the creation of a formal government structure for the town. Berea was governed by a five-man Board of Trustees until 1909, when it became a 5th class city and was therefore entitled to have a mayor. During the period covered by the ledger, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: Majority of material found within 1890-1916
