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Celebrating the Annual Bowman Cultural Trip
 James C. Bowman was a man of vision and determination. For many years, he journeyed along creek beds and over mountain tops into the narrow hollows of Appalachian Kentucky, North Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee to bring students to Berea. Along the way from their homes in the mountains, Bowman arranged a stop for what was for most their first moving picture show. Today, his family honors James Bowman’s memory and legacy by providing the annual cultural trip for education students.
On Saturday, April 12 fourteen student teachers, their friends, education faculty, and members of the Bowman family gathered in Knapp Hall to celebrate this year’s trip—four days in New York City. Student displays provided a look at their remarkable New York experiences. Whether it was attending Broadway plays, romping in Central Park, visiting art museums, Ellis Island, Times Square, or simply riding the subways, the students reported on rich learning experiences and excitedly talked about how this trip has deepened their understandings and broadened their visions for teaching and learning.
Berea alumnus heads stand-out school
 Roosevelt Elementary School is situated on a quiet street in a working class neighborhood in Kingsport, a community of 45,000 nestled in an Appalachian valley in Tennessee. The school looks typical from the outside, but what happens inside is anything but typical. Immediately put at ease by the bright and colorful entry way and halls filled with student work and beautiful photographs of the children who live work and play there, visitors to the school quickly realize there is something very special about the people and place. Read more...
Internship
takes Molly
McGill on an “excellent adventure”
 Last summer fifth-year senior Molly McGill
found herself in the most unusual places
learning the most unexpected things—especially for
a young woman who had never been west of
Louisville, KY. During a six-week internship in
Montana, Nebraska, and South Dakota, Molly stood
in awe atop Snake Butte on Fort Belknap
Reservation, and dug roots near age-old tipi rings
near Poplar, MT. She photographed buffalo in
Yellowstone National
Park, drank sacred
water from a spring
on the Northern
Cheyenne Reservation,
and interviewed
an 84 year old Lakota
woman who had never told anyone the stories of
her youth but wanted to tell them to Molly. Read more...
Student teacher sets goal to be mentor and role model
 "Out of the millions of people on Earth, Berea
College was made for me,” student teacher James “Herbie” Brock says. “I wouldn’t have had a shot
at being successful without Berea and opportunities
I’ve had here.” Read more...
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