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Students, college -- Berea College

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 122 Collections and/or Records:

Ladies Board of Care

 Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.36
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,...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1866-1903

Lena M. Elkin Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.18
Abstract Lena M. Elkin was born in Berea, Kentucky October 24, 1904 and attended Berea College Training, Berea College Grammar School, Berea College Normal, Berea College High School, and Eastern State Teachers College. Weaving was extremely important in Ms. Elkin’s life.  During the 1930s she taught weaving for two summer terms at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, and another summer at University Of Florida Extension Service’s Camp Roosevelt at Ocala. She was production supervisor...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1905-1986; Other: Majority of material found in 1928-1937

Loyal Jones Appalachian Center

 Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.12.1
Abstract

These are the official records of the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1965 -

March on Frankfort

 Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.30
Abstract

On Thursday, March 5, 1964, 170 Berea students and 30 faculty and townspeople joined approximately 10,000 other demonstrators for a March on Frankfort. At the March, demonstrators listened to speeches by Frank Stanley Jr., Martin Luther King, Jr., Jackie Robinson, D.E. King, and Ralph Abernathy. Speakers pleaded for the Governor Breathitt and state legislature to consider seriously the House-sponsored Public Accomodations Bill.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1964

Maud Bowman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.05
Abstract

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.

Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1915-1948

May Mahaffey Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.29
Abstract

May Mahaffey of Richmond attended Berea College for two years and graduated with a B.A. in English in 1929. Many of Mahaffey's family members also attended Berea, including both her parents and a brother.

Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1928-1929

Mildred Hudson Hannaford Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.09
Abstract

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.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1919-1923; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/2012

News Bureau Vertical Files

 Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.23VF
Abstract

News releases, articles and write ups of the Berea College News Bureau.

Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1965-1979

Nora Baker Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.13
Abstract

Nora Baker was a 1932 graduate of Berea College. She also attended the Normal (Vocational) School and graduated in 1916. Baker returned to work as a teacher in Berea and to work at the College later in life.

Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1914-1978; Other: Date acquired: 05/23/2017

Nora Lou Thomson Treese Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.26
Abstract

Mary Lou Thomson Treese was a 1944 graduate of Berea College.  She was the daughter of Edith Ellis Thomson and Dr. A. Eugene Thomson who both attended Berea and whose father's both taught at Berea.  Dr. A. Eugene Thomson served as the first President of Lincoln Institute of Kentucky.

Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1907-1927