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Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.06
Scope and Contents
These are the papers of A.A. Burleigh, one of the first African Americans to attend and graduate from Berea College. Materials include biographical information, correspondence, pension applications, medical and death records, and additional print material.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1867-1938
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.03
Abstract
Created as an affiliated school of Berea College, the Academy served as a Senior High School. In 1938, reorganization abolishes the Academy by adding the ninth and tenth grades to the Foundation School, thus creating the Lower Division (Grades 11-12, College Freshman and Sophomore years) and Upper Division (College Junior and Senior years) to the College.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1895 -
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
Collection
Identifier: RG 07-7.03
Abstract
For twenty-five years, Phi Delta Literary Society maintained an elite reputation as Berea College’s only literary society. However, when in the fall of 1894 “the society became unwieldy and torn by internal dissension,” twenty young men held separate meetings to form a new society. A committee drew up a constitution “which differed from the constitution of Phi Delta chiefly in that it allowed Academy men to be admitted to the privileges of full membership” and the first official Alpha Zeta...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1894-1943
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.11
Abstract
Amye Wheeler Howe was a Berea student in the early 1920s. She passed away in 1931.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1922-1925; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1980
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.13
Abstract
Official records and materials of the Berea College Art and Art History Department.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1923-2010
Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.09
Scope and Contents
Records regarding awards and special recognitions given by Berea College to students, alumnae, staff, faculty, community members, and others. A small number of awards in this collection are given to Berea College community members by outside organizations.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1908-
Collection
Identifier: RG 12-12.01
Scope and Contents
Berea Alumnus / The Berea College Magazine: The Berea College Magazine is a quarterly publication produced by students and staff in the Office of Integrated Marketing & Communications. In each issue the “Berea Story” is told through profiles of faculty members, students, staff, and friends of the college. Through the Magazine the accomplishments of alumni...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1931-
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
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.21
Abstract
Starting in 1899, a fire brigade made up of students and known as the "Bucket Brigade," was established on campus and responded to calls both on and off campus. Formally established in 1905 by the College, the Fire Department served the campus and the city and was staffed by students. In 1966, the City of Berea took over responsibilities for operating the fire department ending what many affectionally referred to as the "College Fire Department."
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1914-1994
