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Students, college -- Berea College

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 112 Collections and/or Records:

Office of Special Programs

 Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.49
Abstract

Records of the Berea College Office of Special Programs including reports, administrative documents, event and programming materials, correspondence, and organizational materials.

Dates: Majority of material found in 1967-2003

Orla Burch Perry Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.22
Abstract

Orla Burch Perry attended Berea College (Academy)  from 1922-1925 and lettered in tennis, track and basketball.  Perry's father, William Newton Burch, had attended Berea in the late 1890s and went on to become a teacher in Clay County.  Her grandson, Joseph Perry, also attended Berea in the mid-1990s.

Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1922-1926

Paul Hager Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.08
Abstract

At Berea College for over thirty-five years, from 1962 to 1997, Paul Hager served both as the Director of Guidance and Testing (later Testing and Special Services) and as the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs.

Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1958-1988

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

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