Berea College - Chimes Yearbook (Berea, KY)

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THIS BOOK College 378.7691 B487c 1937 Berea College Collegiate dept. Senior class Chimes. MRS. ELEANOR MARSH FROST by the death of President Fairchild, and to raise from that beginning a greater, a new Berea. To their administration we owe much that makes Berea distinctive. At the time of crisis in 1904, when the Kentucky legislature enacted a law against the education of the white and black races in one school, President Frost remembered the hill country and its people. He discovered Appalachian America. Under his hand the labor system evolved from a scheme of finding a few jobs for some of the most needy students to a complex system of student industries. Through the work and guidance of President and Mrs. Frost the campus grew amazingly. They looked ahead and dreamed and planned. To these two, President and Mrs. Frost, and to their ideal of a wiser, better hill land where labor and learning walk together, we dedicate this book. 1174 -

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WE DEDICATE PRESIDENT EMERITUS WILLIAM G. FROST The Senior Class of 1937 has the honor to dedicate its volume of THE CHIMES to President Emeritus and Mrs. William Goodell Frost. The story of the founding of Berea is one of bravery and sacrifice, of faith and purpose. Strong men and women with hope and trust in their hearts erected a log building on the ridge and struggled to establish the small school that was the first Berea. The development of this pioneer organization into a large school unit with a smoothly running and unusually complicated set-up called for wisdom, courage, and foresight as great as that of John A. R. Rogers, John Gregg Fee, and Henry Fairchild. From 1892 until 1920 President and Mrs. Frost served Berea directly. They left a scholarly, peaceful life in Oberlin to work with a tiny school weakened

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