Berea College -- Affiliated Schools -- Academy School

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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.

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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Official records of the Berea College, Academy, and Foundation faculty including meeting minutes and agendas, curriculum reviews and committee notes, reports, memoranduc, and general faculty information.

Abstract First meeting in 1939, the Faculty Advisory Council (often called Adivsory Council) was established to provide a democratic means of communication on matters of mutual interest to several faculties, the Labor Group, the President, and the Board of Trustees. Membership on the council included the President, academic Deans, three elected members from each of the Faculties (Upper, Lower, and Foundation), and three elected members from the Labor Group. Elisabeth Peck and May B. Smith were the...

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John Franklin Smith taught in both the Berea College Academy School and the Normal School from 1911 to 1931.  Originally drawn to Berea to teach Rural Social Science, Smith also served as a publicity agent for serveral years and directed the College Sunday School for fifteen years.  Smith was a prolific writer, including a poet. Smith retired from Berea in 1931 due to illness.

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Johnny Anderson attended the Academy School of Berea College between 1929 and 1931.

Abstract In 1866, the Berea College Board of Trustees appointed a Ladies Board of Care (though no explicit authority or budget accompanied the appointment). The goal of the Ladies Board of Care was to protect the college from negative publicity and it achieved this by writing regulations and meting out punishments on all infractions relating to female students. It also focused on teaching the women of the college appropriate etiquette, monitored social privileges of the women in the boarding hall,...

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Maud Bowman was a 1918 graduate of the College. Her father, James C. Bowman was an instructor at Berea College for a number of years, having come to Berea from North Carolina in 1907.

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Mildred Hudson Hannaford was born on November 24, 1896 in Lynn, Massachusetts. In 1914 she enrolled in Berea College after graduating from the Berea Academy. She graduated from the music department in 1916. Her father was Rev. Howard Hudson, who worked as the Foreman in Woodwork Repairs and as the Superintendent of Janitors at Berea College beginning in 1904 and through Mildred’s time at Berea.

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Hubert Robinson attended the Academy at Berea College, graduating in 1931.