Berry College: A History

Acknowledgments

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 [-11], (3) Lines: 39 to 58 ——— 0.0pt PgVar ——— Short Page PgEnds: TEX [-11], (3) Acknowledgments The authors thank many individuals for their assistance with the development of this book. Scott Colley, president of Berry College, encouraged us from the beginning of the project and prepared the foreword. Evelyn Pendley, Berry associate professor of English emerita, and John Lipscomb, Berry vice president for development emeritus, provided valuableinformationtosupplementtheirearlierwritings on Berry history. Others who have been especially helpful in various offices and divisions at Berry include Susan Asbury-Newsome, former curator of Oak Hill and the Martha Berry Museum; Jonathan Harwell, Laquieda Joiner, Martha Reynolds, Judy Thompson, and Jeremy Worsham, Memorial Library; Shannon Biggers and Stacy Cates, public relations; Judy Hopper, Angie Reynolds, and Alan Storey, president ’s office; Thomas Dasher, Kathy McKee, and Elizabeth Shamblin, provost’s office; Cathy Simpson and Linda Tennant, registrar’s office; Maria Popham, institutional research; Carol Willis, student affairs; John Heneisen, student work opportunity ; Scott Breithaupt and Kathleen Ray, alumni and constituent relations; Frank George, advancementandlandmanagement ;BeverlyCornett,Penny Evans-Plants, and Timothy Farnham, information technology; Mike King and Bob Pearson, health and physical education; and Bob Skelton, WinShape Centre. In addition, Herman Higgins, Donald Jones, and Ollie Scoggins, former faculty and staff, provided useful information, as did Robert E. Lee, former Berry dean; John R. Bertrand, former Berry president; and Joe Walton, former vice president for finance. PatMillicanoftheNorthwestGeorgiaGenealogical Society assisted with the Berry ancestral search. RichardStobaeus,graduateoftheNorthfieldMount Hermon School in Massachusetts, brought insights intothatschool’srelationshiptoBerry.NancyBerry, widowofHenryBerry,MarthaBerry’snephew,provided important letters from her collection of Berry family memorabilia. Thisworkwouldnothavebeenpossiblewithout theexcellentserviceprovidedbythestaffoftheBerry College Archives, Memorial Library. We offer special thanks to archivist Rebecca Roberts, archives technical assistant Amy Summerlin, and former archivist Ruth Ash as well as to Tyler Womack of the Oak Hill staff. Alisa Ray of Berry’s office of faculty research and sponsored programs provided the essential service of preparing the manuscript. Alumnae Jennifer DickeyandRhebaMathisreadtheentiremanuscript andcontributedmanyimportantimprovements,and Susan Bandy provided much of the sports history. Kathy Knapp also read the manuscript and made helpful suggestions. Jonathan Atkins of the Berry faculty read the manuscript and proposed very valuable editorial enhancements. We also thank readers Gordon McKinney, professor of history and xi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 [-12], (4) Lines: 58 to ——— * 507.0733 ——— Short Page * PgEnds: Pag [-12], (4) directoroftheAppalachianCenteratBereaCollege, and John R. Thelin, university research professor in educational policy studies at the University of Kentucky; indexer Diane Land; copyeditor Ellen Goldlust-Gingrich; and project editor Jon Davies and editor-in-chief Nancy Grayson, both at the University of Georgia Press. All of these colleagues and friends have helped to make this book much better than it would have been, but the authors are responsible for any remaining errors. xii Acknowledgments ...