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Collection Overview
Abstract
The Office of Vice President for Alumni and College Relations is responsible for providing administrative oversight for securing endowment and annual fund support for the college, creating and disseminating information about the college and leading efforts to expand the circle of alumni and friends who are concerned with the welfare of the college. The Office is currently made up of the following divisions: Advancement Services, Alumni Relations, Annual Giving, Development Operations and Prospect Research, Donor Relations and Communications, Major and Planned Gifts, and Marketing and Communications.
Scope and Contents of the Materials
The Alumni and College Relations collection contains fundraising and publicity materials, records on donors and foundations, records of various department staff, alumni event and support materials, campus maps and tour guides, and staff newsletters published by the department. A highlight of the collection is its numerous publications reflecting the fundraising efforts and historical background of the College which can be found in Series 2: Publicity and Publications.
Collection Historical Note
Previsously referred to as: Berea College News Bureau, College Publicity Bureau, Office of Information, Office of Development, Office of Public Relations, Department of Public Relations
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
Berea College Special Collections and Archives Catalog
Access Restrictions:
Records can be accessed through the Reading Room, Berea College Special Collections and Archives, Hutchins Library, Berea College.
Use Restrictions:
Federal copyright regulations. Records containing personal information may be restricted.
Separated Materials:
Restricted Items: Funds and Subcription Agreements 2015, 2011 - 2014; Shelved in Restricted Aisle: Range 9, L2
Related Materials:
RG 5/5.03: Berea College Alumni Association
RG 5/5.32: Business Office
RG 5/5.19: Office of the Vice President for Finance
RG 5/5.23PA: News Bureau and Public Relations Photographic Archives
RG 5/5.23VF: Berea College News Bureau Vertical Files
Berea College Photographic Archives
Preferred Citation:
[Record/Folder/Box], RG 5/5.23: Administrative Divisions: Alumni and College Relations. Berea College Special Collections and Archives, Berea, KY.
Processing Information:
Materials were reprocessed and this guide was created in Janurary 2018. Updated April 2018.
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Series:
[Series 1: Donors, Subscriptions and Finance Foundations],
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Series 2: Publicity and Publications],
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Series 3: Public Relations],
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Series 4: Alumni Relations],
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Series 5: Campus Maps and Tour Guides],
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Series 6: Staff Newsletters, 1966 - 2003],
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All]
- Series 1: Donors, Subscriptions and Finance Foundations

- Box 1

- Folder 1: Endowment Subscriptions, Prior to 1869

- List with donor names, amount of donation, and hometown
- Folder 2: Endowment Subscription Books, 1868 - 1880

- 3 Books
- Folder 3: Endowment Subscription Books, 1883 - 1891

- 2 Books
- Folder 4: Endowment Subscription Books, 1881 - 1900

- 3 Books
- Folder 5: Lists of Various Donations

- Some noted as early as 1902
- Folder 6: Donations, 1909

- Includes Adjustment Funds/Whites and Adjustment Funds/Colored (Black)
- Folder 7: Statements of Donations, 1893 - 1916

- Folder 8: Lists of Donors, 1912 - 1914

- Folder 9: List of Donations and Pledges of Graduates and Former Students, nd, 1913(?)

- Folder 10: Donations of Berea Citizens, nd, 1913(?)

- Folder 11: Lists of Donors to College, Normal, Vocational, Foundation, and Academy Schools, nd, 1913(?)

- Folder 12: Faculty Subscriptions/Donations, Feb, 1913

- Folder 13: Current Expense Donations and Gifts Received, 1919 - 1928

- By month
- Folder 14: Donations by States to Necessity Fund, June, 1922

- Folder 15: Report of Berea College Necessity Fund, Oct 1921 - May 1922

- Folder 16: Additions to Endowment, 1922 -1923

- Folder 17: Donations, nd, 1920s - 1930s

- Lists and Notes
- Folder 18: Donations, 1928 - 1929

- Broken down by Amounts and Locality of Donor
- Folder 19: Donations/Gifts Received by States, 1924

- Folder 20: Letters and Notes Regarding Berea College, Donations, 1920s

- Folder 21: Record of Subscriptions to Berea College Endowment and Building Fun, Dec, 1929

- Folder 22: "Bequests and Gifts for Very Special Objects Received Since June 15, 1930"

- Folder 23: Notes regarding Gifts and Donations, 1930s

- Folder 24: Donation Receipts, 1935 - 1936

- with note
- Folder 25: Donations for Current Expenses and Labor Grants, 1919 - 1941

- Folder 26: Donors: First Gift Coming Twenty-Five or More Years Ago, 1942

- Box 2

- Folder 1: Donor: Bramel, Clifford J., 1974 - 1976

- Folder 2: Donor: Burtt, Horatio. H., 1968

- Folder 3: Donor: Cargill, Margaret Anne, 2006

- Folder 4: Donors: Carnegie, Andrew and Louis, 1908 - 1914

- Folder 5: Donor: Clark, Thomas D., 1966 - 1971

- Folder 6: Donor: Coyle, Carlos, 1961 - 1962

- Folder 7: Donor: Crane, Zenus, 1899 - 1917

- Folder 8: Donor: Curtis, Albert, nd

- Folder 9: Donor: Mrs. Tracy C. Drake, 1931

- Folder 10: Donors: General, 1929 - 1952

- Folder 11: Donors: General, 1969 - 1970

- Folder 12: Donor: Dupont, Pierre, 1926 - 1931

- Folder 13: Donor: Mary M. Emery, 1908 - 1924

- Folder 14: Donor: Fay, Sarah B., 1899 - 1924

- Folder 15: Donor: Fleischman, Max, 1923

- Folder 16: Donor: Ford, Henry, 1926 - 1958

- Folder 17: Donor: French, Mary Billings, 1938

- Folder 18: Donor: Gray, Almena, 1933

- Folder 19: Donor: Gould, Helen Miller, 1908 - 1942

- Mrs. Shepard
- Folder 20: Donor: Gulf, The Orange Disc, May-June 1964

- Folder 21: Donor: Hall, Charles M., 1904 - 1936

- Folder 22: Donor: Hall, Charles M., 1937 - 1981

- Folder 23: Donor: Hammond, W.A., 1953 - 1976

- Folder 24: Donor: Hays, Mrs. Frank

- Folder 25: Donor: Hopkins, Susan, 1898 - 1909

- Folder 26A: Donor: Howard, General O.O., 1905 - 1952

- Folder 26B: Donor: Howe, Julia Ward, 1910

- Program from Memorial Service held at Berea College Chapel
- Folder 27: Donor: Joslin, Rebecca R., 1928

- Joslin Scholarship Loan Fund
- Folder 28: Donor: Kales, Alice G., 1920 - 1939

- Mrs. William R. Kales
- Folder 29: Donor: Kennedy, John S., 1908 - 1910

- Folder 30: Donor: Ketterings, 1933 - 1971

- Folder 31: Donor: Kimball, Chase, 1978 - 1979

- Folder 32: Donor: Kress, 1954

- Donation of Kress Organ to Phelp-Stokes Chapel
- Folder 33: Donor: Kress, 1961

- The Kress Study Collection of Paintings and Sculpture
- Folder 34: Donor: Longfellow, Alice M., 1864 - 1927

- Folder 35: Donor: Longstreth, Ellen W., 1919

- Mrs. Charles A. Longstreth
- Folder 36: Donor: Loveland, Catharine P., 1947

- Box 3

- Folder 1: Donor: McGaw, Foster, 1972

- Folder 2: Donor: McFee, William, 1923 - 1958

- Folder 3: Donor: McRery, R. W., 1921 - 1933

- Folder 4: Donor: Munger, Harry, 1929 - 1933

- Folder 5: Donor: Munger, Jessie

- Folder 6: Donor: Nutting, Marriet, 1944 - 1949

- Marriet Nutting Estate
- Folder 7: Donor: Nutting, Wallace, 1930 - 1960

- Folder 8: Donor: Nutting, Wallace, 1934 - 1945

- Folder 9: Donor: Nutting, Wallace and Marriet, 1945 - 1947

- Folder 10: Donor: Pearsons, Daniel K., 1895 - 1910

- Folder 11: Donor: Pearsons, Daniel K., 1905 - 1911

- Folder 12: Donor: Pearsons, Daniel K., 1911 - 1958

- Folder 13: Donor: Phelps-Stokes, Olivia, 1900 - 1927

- Folder 14: Donor: Phelps-Stokes, Anson, 1922 - 1924

- Folder 15: Donor: Platt, Mrs. Clark M.

- Folder 16: Donor: Post, Wilfred, M., 1960

- Folder 17: Donor: Russell, Dr. Ruth

- Russell Endowment for Fellowship of Women
- Folder 18: Donors: Seabury, John (Mr. and Mrs.), 1972

- Folder 19: Donors: Seabury, Charles Ward (Mr. and Mrs.), 1960

- Box 4

- Folder 1: Donor: Shedd, Annie K., 1932 - 1939

- Folder 2: Donor: Sheppard, Walter B., 1948 - 1951

- Folder 3: Donor: Siler, James Haden, 1971 - 1974

- Folder 4: Donor: Sloniker, Ross Walter, 1963 - 1973

- Folder 5: Donor: Smith, Gerrit, 1855 - 1929

- Includes writings by Smith
- Folder 6: Donor: Smith, Roswell, 1866 - 1935

- Folder 7: Donor: Sprague-Smith, Isabell Dwight, nd, 1924 - 1937

- Mrs. Charles
- Folder 8: Donor: Sprague-Smith, Isabell Dwight, 1938 - 1944

- Mrs. Charles
- Folder 9: Donor: Sprague-Smith, Isabell Dwight, 1944 - 1972

- Mrs. Charles
- Folder 10: Donor: Thompson, Mrs. D.R., 1941

- Folder 11: Donor: Thurston, R.C. Ballard, 1931 - 1938

- Folder 12: Donors: Weld, Francis S. and Charles R., 1923

- Folder 13: Donor: Wells, William, 1993

- Folder 14: Donor: Westervelt, E.C., 1921 - 1940

- Folder 15: Donor: Westervelt, E.C., 1936 - 1942

- Folder 16: Donor: Whitman, Sarah Wyman, 2008

- Folder 17: Donor: Woods, Henry Dickinson

- Folder 18: Donor: Wright, Orville, 1948

- Box 5

- Folder 1A: Donors: Funds for Administration Building, 1929 - 1932

- 1926 Donations, List made 1929; Correspondence, 1932
- Folder 1B: Finance Foundation: Barker Welfare Foundation, 1935 - 1939

- Folder 2: Finance Foundation: Belknap Fund, 1924 - 1925

- Folder 3: Finance Foundation: Billings Endowment Fund, 1903

- Robert Charles Billings
- Folder 4: Finance Foundation: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1908 - 1909

- Folder 5A: Finance Foundation: Crane Friendship Fund, 1938

- Charles R. Crane
- Folder 5B: Finance Foundation: Dana Foundation, 1960, nd

- Folder 6A: Finance Foundation: Danforth Foundation, 1959

- Folder 6B: Donors: Dormitory Furnishing Fund, 1913 - 1916

- Folder 6C: Donors: Efficiency Fund for Berea's Mountain Work, 1921 - 1927

- Lists of donors, correspondence, printed matter.
- Folder 7: Finance Foundation: Ford Foundation, 1962 - 1968

- Grant Matching Campaign Fund
- Folder 8: Finance Foundation: General, 1964 - 1976

- Folder 9: Finance Foundation: General Education Board, 1902 - 1922

- Folder 10A: Finance Foundation: Kellogg Foundation, 1936

- Folder 10B: Donors: Kentucky Hall Fund, 1912, nd

- Folder 11: Finance Foundation: Kress, Samuel S. Kress

- Folder 12: Finance Foundation: Kyesge Foundation, 1951

- Folder 13A: Finance Foundation: Lilly Endowment, 1935 - 1962

- Includes report.
- Folder 13B: Endowment: First and Second Pearson Endowments, 1898, 1900

- Folder 13C: Endowment: Pearsons Endowment Subscriptions, c1910 - 1912

- List of donors. Includes Pearsons Hall Fund donations.
- Folder 13D: Donors: Power Plant Fund, 1910 - 1911

- Folder 14: Finance Foundation: Presser Foundation, 1922 - 1927

- Folder 15A: Donors: Elizabeth Rogers Hall - Furnishing of Rooms Fund, nd

- Folder 15B: Finance Foundation: Russel Sage Foundation, 1907 - 1919

- Folder 16: Finance Foundation: Shaler Memorial Fund, 1923 - 1937

- Folder 17: Finance Foundation: Sperry and Hutchinson Company Lectureship Program, 1963 - 1964

- Folder 18: Finance Foundation: Travelli, Charles Erwin Fund, 1939 - 1944

Browse by Series:
[Series 1: Donors, Subscriptions and Finance Foundations],
[
Series 2: Publicity and Publications],
[
Series 3: Public Relations],
[
Series 4: Alumni Relations],
[
Series 5: Campus Maps and Tour Guides],
[
Series 6: Staff Newsletters, 1966 - 2003],
[
All]