Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, author and civil rights icon Janis Ian became famous before she was old enough for college, so she never got to go. Along the rise…
While pursuing his master’s degree at Harvard, Adam Howard ’93 found himself at an elite boys’ school outside Boston. For the previous two months, he had been researching…
Until age 12, Yogesh Budhathoki ’22 had lived with his extended family in southeastern Nepal, with grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. Then, he and his parents and brother…
A native of North Carolina, Dani ’25 works as the finishing manager in Student Craft. She takes various products and cuts them down to size and neatens up…
In eastern Kentucky rests Olive Hill, a little foothill town straddling two counties, Carter and Elliott. It’s not far from Grayson, which is not far from Ashland, which…
Julian Higgins ’60 was the youngest of 12 children, 10 of whom attended Berea, either at the Foundation School or the College. The Higgins family lived on a…
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.…