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Geology and Geography Department
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.23
Abstract
Records of the Berea College Geology and Geography Department. Geology was one of the core science programs at Berea College for many years but with the retirement of the last professor in 2003, the program went into a hiatus. In 2018, the program was brought back to Berea College in the new science building. In fall of 2018, Dr. Suzanne Birner joined the faculty to develop a new curriculum in geology and to restart the program for a new generation of Berea College students.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1936-1978
S. Whittemore Boggs Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.04
Abstract
S(amuel) Whittemore Boggs born in Kansas on March 3, 1889 and graduated from Berea College in 1909. He received a M.A. from Columbia University in 1924 and a D.Sc. (honorary) from Berea College in 1949. Upon graduating from Berea, Boggs served as the private secretary to President Frost from 1909-12. As a geologist, he published many articles and edited numerous map compilations, including editing maps for World Missionary Atlas. Boggs served as a geographer with the U.S. Dept. of State...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1915-1951
Wilbur G. Burroughs Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.05
Abstract
Wilbur Greeley Burroughs was born in Shortsville, New York on December 7, 1886 to Joseph B. and Emma Greeley Burroughs. Wilbur and his younger brother, Wallace, attended Oberlin where he received his A.B. in 1909 (Phi Beta Kappa) and A.M. in 1911. Burroughs founded the Geology department at Berea College in 1920 and went on to receive his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1932. In 1927, Burroughs was elected president of the Kentucky Academy of Science.
This collection consists of Burroughs...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1927-1959
Willard Rouse Jillson Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0020 SAA 019
Abstract
Willard Rouse Jillson was born May 28, 1890, in Syracuse, New York where as a youth he was greatly interested in natural science, geography, and travel. His undergraduate degree (Syracuse, 1912) was followed by a Masters at the Washington State University (1915) and further studies at the University of Chicago and Yale. He was awarded honorary doctorates by Syracuse University (1921) and Berea College (1925). After working as a petroleum geologist in the South and West, he came to Kentucky...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1898-1978