2023 Awardees from Summer Reunion
How two sisters navigated a conservative perspective in an inclusive space Berea’s founding motto that “God has made of one blood all peoples of the earth” has always…
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. Peter Thoms ’55 The child of medical missionaries in Muscat, Oman, Peter Thoms ’55 knew his whole life he wanted to be a doctor. He grew up…
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…
When alumnus Dr. Michael D. Moore graduated from Berea in 1977 with a degree in business administration, his career trajectory was practicing law. He returned to his hometown…
One could say Anne Cobb Smith was an exemplary teacher and Christian. She earned her bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Swarthmore College, where she met her husband, Willis…
Two idealistic Yale alumni—one Chinese, the other American—met in China nearly a century ago. They sparked an enduring friendship, laying the foundation for a three-generation legacy that stretched…