When Katie Bister ’23 finished her engineering technologies and applied design degree, she didn’t have to go far to find a job. She had spent four years in…
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Before becoming the 10th president of historic Berea College, and the first woman to assume the role, Cheryl Nixon was a child, a teen, a college student, wife…
One of the designers and makers of the Sunrise Mirror, available at Berea’s Log House Craft Gallery, took inspiration from the small Missouri town where they grew up.…
The 10th president of Berea College, Cheryl Nixon, has done many things over the course of her career. She’s been a dishwasher, a college professor, a department chair,…
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On Oct. 14, 1960, at 2 a.m., a young crowd eagerly anticipated the words of John F. Kennedy as he took the steps outside the University of Michigan’s…
Harry Johnston ’71 didn’t know why anybody might be interested in him. He’s just a retired, third-party medical claims guy living in West Virginia. A pair of old…
Any new employee of Berea College will likely be handed a copy of the Great Commitments. There are eight. Collectively, they are the mission statement, what all Bereans…
Visiting your uncle can change your life for good. In the early 1950s, young Peter Whitis ’57 bounced from school to school as his parents moved around the…