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Berry College: A History
Dickey, Ouida, Mathis, Doyle
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Description for Berry College: A History
Hardcover. Illustrated with more than a hundred photographs, this is a comprehensive history of Berry College, located in northwest Georgia. It tells how Martha Berry's founding vision - to educate the head, the heart, and the hands - evolved to meet the challenges of each new generation. The book will be of interest to historians and scholars, among others. Num Pages: 256 pages, 101 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBFG; HBT; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 203 x 21. Weight in Grams: 907.
Illustrated with more than a hundred photographs, this is the most detailed and comprehensive history to date of Berry College, located in northwest Georgia. Ranging from Berry’s modest beginnings in 1902 as a trade school for rural Appalachian youth to its present-day standing among the Southeast’s best liberal arts colleges, the book tells how Martha Berry’s founding vision—to educate the head, the heart, and the hands—evolved to meet the challenges of each new generation. The photographs, many of them rarely seen before, capture happenings at Berry over its first century: preparations for the world wars, visits by renowned benefactors, student ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820327587
SKU
V9780820327587
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About Dickey, Ouida, Mathis, Doyle
Ouida Dickey (Author) OUIDA DICKEY retired in 1999 from her position as dean of Academic Services following forty-three years of service at Berry. She is president of the Berry Alumni Association. Doyle Mathis (Author) DOYLE MATHIS retired in 2000 from the position of provost following twenty-five years at Berry College.
Reviews for Berry College: A History
The significant contribution of Berry College: A History is that it presents the detailed story of an understudied institution in an understudied institutional category—namely, small private liberal arts colleges in the South. The book also pays justifiable homage to an important figure, Martha Berry, and has a broader appeal to Appalachian studies.
author of A History of American Higher ... Read more
A great tribute to a great school. Martha Berry would be delighted.
James Beard Award-winning author of Smokehouse Ham, Spoon Bread, and Scuppernong Wine
This is an interesting historical account of Berry College and the opportunities and challenges of those who follow a true visionary.
Founding Executive Director, Fernbank Museum of Natural History
This is a splendid and attractive work . . . told with balance and perspective. Institutional successes and short-comings are dealt with frankly, but commitment to Berry's mission by successive generations of the college community has maintained and enhanced the motto and hallmark of a Berry education. For colleges considering the preparation of their own historical volume, Berry College: A History, provides an excellent model. A detailed narrative of the rise and progress of an important educational institution working and serving in Appalachia . . . This book is recommended for all Appalachian regional and higher education collections. This is the most detailed and comprehensive history to date of Berry College. . . . Their meticulous research draws on a rich trove of documents to reveal a story that surpasses many of the familiar and beloved tales connected to the school. The story of the rise of Berry College to national prominence is candidly told in this book. For those of us educated at Berry, it is a reminder of our good fortune. And for others, it is an example of a formula that works—an education of the head, the heart and the hands.
President, College of the Ozarks
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author of A History of American Higher ... Read more
A great tribute to a great school. Martha Berry would be delighted.
James Beard Award-winning author of Smokehouse Ham, Spoon Bread, and Scuppernong Wine
This is an interesting historical account of Berry College and the opportunities and challenges of those who follow a true visionary.
Founding Executive Director, Fernbank Museum of Natural History
This is a splendid and attractive work . . . told with balance and perspective. Institutional successes and short-comings are dealt with frankly, but commitment to Berry's mission by successive generations of the college community has maintained and enhanced the motto and hallmark of a Berry education. For colleges considering the preparation of their own historical volume, Berry College: A History, provides an excellent model. A detailed narrative of the rise and progress of an important educational institution working and serving in Appalachia . . . This book is recommended for all Appalachian regional and higher education collections. This is the most detailed and comprehensive history to date of Berry College. . . . Their meticulous research draws on a rich trove of documents to reveal a story that surpasses many of the familiar and beloved tales connected to the school. The story of the rise of Berry College to national prominence is candidly told in this book. For those of us educated at Berry, it is a reminder of our good fortune. And for others, it is an example of a formula that works—an education of the head, the heart and the hands.
President, College of the Ozarks
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