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…
Photot by Desiree Dunn ’21 Sabina Sabal ’22 is aiming for a job with the World Health Organization, and she’s studying neuroscience and mental health in order to…
Photo by Crystal Wylie ’05 Mary Lou Salter ’47 had no plans to attend Berea College. And when she arrived she had no intention of staying. A Berea…
Photo by Lucila Santiago ’21 José Socarras ’21 emigrated from Cuba to the United States when he was 2 years old. He and his mother followed his father,…
Virgil Burnside ’74 and Dr. Jacqueline Grisby Burnside ’74 Dr. Jacqueline Grisby Burnside ’74 and Virgil Burnside ’74 met at Berea College, got married as students and marched…