Students, college -- Berea College
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 122 Collections and/or Records:
Phi Delta Literary Society Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 07-7.04
Abstract
Phi Delta literary Society was formed “For one purpose of learning truth, and promoting literary culture, discipline of mind and manner, and firm friendship….” The constitution was adopted on November 27, 1868, and the first recorded regular meeting was December 11, 1868. Except for a semester during World War I, the society met on a weekly basis until its dissolution in November 1942. Meetings usually took place in Phi Delta Hall, a room in Lincoln Hall.
Phi Delta was a member of the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1868-1942
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
Photographs utilized in Berea College: An Illustrated History by Shannon H. Wilson
Collection
Identifier: BC PH-IH
Abstract
Published in 2006 by the University Press of Kentucky, Shannon Wilson's Berea College: An Illustrated History contains facts and numerous photographs depicting campus life throughout Berea's long history.
Dates:
1865-2000
Programs
Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.11
Scope and Contents
Records and materials related to special programs administered by Berea College.
Some records within this collection can be accessed digitally - see detailed description below.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1878-
Ralph Charles Hammond Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.08
Abstract
Ralph Charles Hammond (b. 1916), attended Berea College through his junior year when he was drafted into the United States Army. While stationed in England, he did special studies at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and at Oxford University. Upon returning from four years of service in World War II he graduated from the University of Alabama he was awarded an Honorary Doctor's Degree from the University of West Alabama for his "Contribution to Alabama Life and Literature" in...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1990-2004
Randall Law McConkey Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.17
Abstract
Randall Law McConkey was a 1950 graduate of Berea College and also attended the Academy school.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1945-1969; Other: Date acquired: 09/10/2008
Residential Living Guide 2022-2023, 2022
Item
Identifier: Series 2
Scope and Contents
Publication with information related to living in the residential community of Berea College, and campus conduct in general
Dates:
2022
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
Sally Wilkerson Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.58
Abstract
Sally Wilkerson (born in 1919 in Palm Beach, Florida) spent most of her youth in Middlesboro, Kentucky, before attending and graduating from Berea College with a major in art in the 1930’s. While at Berea, Wilkerson’s student labor positions included taxidermy work for the biology department and general labor in the art department.
Upon graduation from Berea, Wilkerson taught in public schools. She returned to Berea College as a faculty member in 1946. Her first appointment at the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1939-1975
Sarah Alice Snider Lambert Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.18
Abstract
Sarah Alice Snider attended Berea College from 1926 to 1927.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1926-1930