For Clint Patterson, Berea College’s forester, the holy grail of conservationism is to find economic solutions to environmental problems. Berea College Forester Clint Patterson manages and sustains the…
When she graduated in 1981, Sherry McCulley-Hall promised nursing program administrator, Dr. Martha Pride, she would take the philosophy and skills Berea had taught her and pass them…
Outside the region itself, stories of Appalachia tend to focus on what’s missing. In Clay County, Ky., folks are working to change that. There are better stories to…
Berea College Labor Stories Berea College doesn’t just admit students, it hires them, too. Though in the beginning, the Labor program provided a means of support while attending…
Imagine a scene somewhere in eastern Kentucky, around 1914. A tent revival is underway. The preacher speaks for a while, then relinquishes the pulpit to a college professor,…
A profile of Sylvia Asante, dean of Labor Berea’s dean of labor, Dr. Sylvia Asante, had some idea about the work that goes on at Berea College before…
Too Christian, not Christian enough It’s not rare in America that a liberal arts college is church-affiliated. It’s also not rare that a liberal arts college used to…
When Reverend Steve Peake ’74 was a boy, he sat in a one-room segregated schoolhouse in tiny Fleming-Neon, Ky., listening to women from a nearby Christian organization tell…
Dr. Jim Gaines ’56: A Picture-Perfect Career In a laboratory at Washington University in St. Louis, graduate student Jim Gaines ’56 needed a way to observe a quantum…
Photo by Jay Buckner The story of Monroe Peeler and Berea College is incomplete without telling the story of his grandfather, John William Bate, who was born into…