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.…
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…