When Lindsey Heuscher ’14 arrived at Berea College as a transfer student in 2011, she had no idea what to expect. A Seattle native, she applied on the…
Vicki Allums ’79 supported the Technology Like No Other campaign by naming an office within the new CMIT building. She was honored to recognize and celebrate her mother,…
Class of 1948 and PriorContributors: 22Berea Fund: $17,925.00Total Funds: $1,566,894.11 Class of 1949Contributors: 12Berea Fund: $3,640.00Total Funds: $748,204.64 Class of 1950Contributors: 8Berea Fund: $6,750.00Total Funds: $30,136.05 Class of…
At Berea, we often talk about how education opens doors. For many of our students and alumni, those doors were once closed, locked, or hidden from view. Yet…
A Berea College alumnus is to thank every time someone taps to make a purchase with a credit or debit card. However, when William “Jody” Gray ’85 was…
When Felicia Turnley ’83 visited Berea as a high school senior, it immediately felt like home. Because of that instant sense of connection, she knew this was where…
Maurice Godsey ’60 remembers the coal dust. “Coal was the thing that from the time you woke up till you went to bed, you heard it, you smelled…
All doors were closed. That’s why Melissa Benson ’11 came to Berea College. “I was in my 30s,” she explained. “I had never finished college, and it was…
Life events, timing and who you meet sometimes seem random and unremarkable. Other times, they line up in unexplainable ways that put into motion the story of your…
When Jonathan “JJ” Johnson ’99 thinks back on his childhood in Fairfield, Alabama, in greater Birmingham, he remembers a life that was both loving and precarious. He grew…