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...room schoolhouse in 1855. But now, he wrote later in the American Missionary, "we need a college here . . . an antislavery, anti-caste, anti-rum, antitobacco, anti-sectarian, pious school under Christian influence, a school that will furnish the best possible facilities for those with small means." Last week, as Berea College celebrated its 100th anniversary, it was everything that its founder could have hoped for. "We need working men," Preacher Fee had said. "The rich, the proud and the indolent will not come to such a school as we propose...
...help the college celebrate, friends and alumni from all over the U.S. gathered last week in Berea (pop. 3,400). Governor Lawrence Wetherby of Kentucky was on hand, and along with Berea's President Francis S. Hutchins,* he happily climbed into a horse-drawn surrey to lead the big parade through the town. The main event, however, was the opening of a play called Wilderness Road, which was written especially for the occasion by Southern Author Paul Green. The play was in every way appropriate-a warm tribute to the builders of Berea who decades ago traveled down...
Exiles' Return. Because of those early travelers, thousands of young mountaineers have been able to get an education they would otherwise never have had. But the sort of education they received involved far more than opening up the world of books. In 1859, Berea's leaders were exiled from the state for their anti-slavery stand; Founder Fee himself was mobbed and beaten no fewer than 13 times. Nevertheless, in 1866, the faculty was back again to make the daring announcement that Berea would take in Negroes. Even when Kentucky's Day Law of 1904 specifically forbade...
From the start, Berea's fees were minimal (it charges no tuition). Its first barefooted students merely brought whatever they could. Some came with potatoes, others with eggs; one boy walked 50 miles leading a cow. Then a few students began to bring homemade quilts, and these, President William Frost discovered, could be sold. From quilts, the students went on to furniture, gradually built up Berea's famed Student Industries which now do some $400,000 worth of business a year...
Economics, Bridge & Poker. Neil Hosier McElroy was born in Berea, Ohio, on Oct. 30, 1904, and raised in Madisonville, a suburb of Cincinnati, where his father was a high-school physics instructor, his mother a grade-school teacher. It was a strict Methodist household, but father and mother McElroy sensibly decided that if their three sons were to learn the ways of the world, they might as well do so at home. Instead of having their boys hanging around the local pool hall, they installed a pool table of their own. On Sunday evenings the family gathered for a weekly...