Students -- Societies, etc.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Alpha Zeta Literary Society Records
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
Campus and Student Organizations
Collection
Identifier: RG 07-7.00
Abstract
General collection of papers and records of numerous campus and student organizations, organized by organization, at Berea College from 1871 to the present day.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1871-
Phi Kappa Phi Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 07-7.05
Abstract
The history of Berea College's Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi begins in the early 1950's but the need for an honor society like Phi Kappa Phi had been recognized at Berea as early as the 1930's and 1940's. Within those decades Berea established a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa; however, because Phi Beta Kappa only recognized outstanding scholarship in disciplines covered by a Bachelor of Arts degree, about one-third of Berea's student body was ineligible for acceptance to an interdisciplinary honor...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1951 - 1990
Students for Appalachia (SFA) Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 07-7.06
Abstract
Students for Appalachia (SFA) was established in 1968 by Berea College students to serve the community through programs in arts, crafts, home visitation, recreation, tutoring of school children and serving as referral agents for public service and federal programs. SFA students also teach basic literacy skills for adults and assist those interested in obtaining a high school diploma through a program conducted in homes and community centers. The student lead program would later become a...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1968-1992