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Berea College is building on the success of the Matilda Hamilton Fee Hydroelectric Station at Lock 12 on the Kentucky River by partnering with Appalachian Hydro Associates to build a second hydropower plant 35 miles upstream at Lock and Dam 14 near Heidelberg in Lee County.
In 2021, Berea College became the first higher education institution in the nation to complete construction of a hydroelectric generating plant, located on the Kentucky River near Ravenna.

Lock 14\\u2014like Lock 12\\u2014was originally built and used for navigation and was abandoned in the mid-1990s. The dam currently is used for water supply and to maintain the river for recreational use.

In January, the Berea College Board of Trustees gave the go-ahead for the second project.

\\u201cAs the Matilda Hamilton Fee Hydroelectric Station project matured, and as we started to receive returns on our investment, our Board of Trustees permitted us to proceed with this second project,\\u201d said Berea College President Lyle Roelofs. \\u201cI like to say that every molecule of water will work twice for us once we get the second project up and running.\\u201d\",\"dropCap\":false,\"anchor\":\"\"}","name":"core/paragraph"},{"__typename":"CoreParagraphBlock","attributesJSON":"{\"content\":\"
The Lock 12 project\\u2014the first new small hydro project built in Kentucky in 94 years\\u2014allowed Berea College and its partner Appalachian Hydro Associates to learn valuable lessons that are being carried over to the new project. Additionally, new equipment options and design concepts are available, allowing Lock 14 to produce 30 percent more power. The new project will still incorporate many important features demonstrated at Lock 12, such as submersible turbine-generators to handle the huge floods on the Kentucky River and construction in the abandoned lock chamber to eliminate the need for a large cofferdam, which is typical in most hydro-plant construction.

With this second project, the existing electrical usage of Berea College will be more than entirely offset by hydropower.

\\u201cWith our new project at Lock 14, Berea College is once again demonstrating its commitment to environmental sustainability,\\u201d Roelofs said. \\u201cWith these two projects, we are not just teaching our students about the value of renewable, carbon-free energy generation. These projects demonstrate our commitment to Appalachian communities as we deliver on our commitment to mindful and sustainable living.\",\"dropCap\":false,\"anchor\":\"\"}","name":"core/paragraph"},{"__typename":"CoreParagraphBlock","attributesJSON":"{\"content\":\"
\\u201cWe can do something that\\u2019s operationally sustainable, we can be a model for other organizations, and we can do something that will benefit the economy in the counties that have been hampered by national changes in the economy,\\u201d he added.\",\"dropCap\":false,\"anchor\":\"\"}","name":"core/paragraph"},{"__typename":"CoreParagraphBlock","attributesJSON":"{\"content\":\"
Other agencies and firms involved in the project include the Kentucky River Authority, Jackson Energy Cooperative, Wright Concrete & Construction of Pikeville, Rimar Electric of Winchester, Modern Welding of Kentucky, Kleinschmidt Group and Voith.\",\"dropCap\":false,\"anchor\":\"\"}","name":"core/paragraph"},{"__typename":"CoreParagraphBlock","attributesJSON":"{\"content\":\"
The new Lock 14 powerhouse will be placed in the existing lock chamber and constructed out of reinforced concrete. The powerhouse will be 52 feet wide and 18.5 feet long.\",\"dropCap\":false,\"anchor\":\"\"}","name":"core/paragraph"},{"__typename":"CoreParagraphBlock","attributesJSON":"{\"content\":\"
Unlike the powerhouse at Lock 12, the new powerhouse will employ a submerged horizontal trash rack, with the upper pool being maintained with a movable spillway so there is no part of the powerhouse visible above the lock chamber. The spillway can be lowered to allow the river to flush downstream any debris that builds up.\",\"dropCap\":false,\"anchor\":\"\"}","name":"core/paragraph"},{"__typename":"CoreParagraphBlock","attributesJSON":"{\"content\":\"
The powerhouse will contain six Voith StreamDiver submersible turbine-generator units, consisting of four 14.9 StreamDiver axial flow 1490-millimeter propeller turbines directly coupled to a 645-kilowatt permanent magnet generator and two 8.95 StreamDiver axial flow 895-millimeter propeller turbines directly coupled to a 225-kilowatt permanent magnet generator. The total output of the plant will be 3,030 kilowatts.\",\"dropCap\":false,\"anchor\":\"\"}","name":"core/paragraph"},{"__typename":"CoreParagraphBlock","attributesJSON":"{\"content\":\"
The StreamDiver units will be mounted horizontally so the water can travel straight through, as opposed to the vertical units used at Lock 12.\\u00a0 This change in the turbine mounting from vertical to horizontal, will reduce the amount of concrete needed for the powerhouse by 60 percent as compared to Lock 12.\",\"dropCap\":false,\"anchor\":\"\"}","name":"core/paragraph"},{"__typename":"CoreParagraphBlock","attributesJSON":"{\"content\":\"
The controls for the plant will be housed in a control building high on the riverbank, which is 20 feet wide and 42 feet long, and will be 28 feet tall at its peak. The control building will contain switchgear, transformers, air compressors and the controls needed to operate the hydroelectric plant. The control building will be connected to the powerhouse and on to the nearby Jackson Energy distribution system.\",\"dropCap\":false,\"anchor\":\"\"}","name":"core/paragraph"},{"__typename":"CoreParagraphBlock","attributesJSON":"{\"content\":\"
Construction of the project has already begun with equipment being fabricated off-site, and on-site work is scheduled to begin later this year. The Lock 14 project should take about two years to build and should be producing power by May 2024.\",\"dropCap\":false,\"anchor\":\"\"}","name":"core/paragraph"},{"__typename":"CoreParagraphBlock","attributesJSON":"{\"content\":\"
\\u201cThis project has world-class engineering from AHA, Kleinschmidt and Voith as well as Jackson Energy and other forward-thinking partners with the shared vision of a more sustainable future,\\u201d said Judge Wilson II, Berea College general counsel. \\u201cWe are thankful to everyone involved, including the Kentucky River Authority and our trustees, who have been very supportive from the beginning.\\u201d\",\"dropCap\":false,\"anchor\":\"\"}","name":"core/paragraph"},{"__typename":"CoreParagraphBlock","attributesJSON":"{\"content\":\"
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During the first in-person spring commencement ceremony in three years due to COVID, Berea College recognized 260 students. This included 45 students who graduated between 2019-2021. The 215 graduates for 2022 represented 18 different countries.

Guest speaker Geoffrey Canada, globally renowned president and creator of the Harlem Children\\u2019s Zone and advocate for education reform, spoke during the ceremony on meeting challenges facing our youth.

Canada was raised by a single mother in the Bronx, one of the most disadvantaged communities in the United States. Overcoming those challenging circumstances, Canada excelled academically, earning a bachelor\\u2019s degree from Bowdoin College and a master\\u2019s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Upon graduating, Canada committed to providing opportunities for success through education to other children growing up with similar challenges.

Canada created the Harlem Children\\u2019s Zone, a cradle-to-career network of programs serving more than 13,000 low-income students and families in a 97-block area of central Harlem in New York City. The unprecedented success of the program has attracted a great deal of attention.\\u00a0 In 2010 President Barack Obama created the Promise Neighborhoods Initiative to replicate Canada\\u2019s model across the country. \\u00a0In 2011 Canada was named one of Time\\u2019s most influential people and in 2014 one of Fortune magazine\\u2019s 50 greatest leaders.

\\u201cThe promise I made as a teen, that I would get a great education and come back to rescue the children trapped in our urban ghettos, was something I took seriously.\\u00a0And I have spent my life trying to keep that promise,\\u201d Canada said during his remarks.

\\u201cThe best of America is yet to come,\\u201d he added. \\u201cThe work we don\\u2019t complete that attempts to make this a better country, the next generation will finish.\\u00a0In 1900, when Susan B. Anthony\\u2014another of my role models who courageously fought to end slavery, then led the women\\u2019s suffrage movement\\u2014was asked when women would get the right to vote, she said, \\u2018It will come, but I shall not see it.\\u00a0It is inevitable.\\u00a0We can no more deny forever the right of self-government to one-half our people than we could keep the Negro forever in bondage.\\u00a0It will not be wrought by the same disrupting forces that freed the slave, but come it will, and I believe within a generation.\\u2019\\u00a0Fourteen years after her death, the 19^{th<\\/sup> Amendment granting women the right to vote was passed.\\u201d

After 30 years with the Harlem Children\\u2019s Zone, Canada stepped down as CEO but continues to serve as president.

In 2020, Canada founded the William Julius Wilson Institute (WJW), which serves as a national platform to help communities across the country impacted by poverty to design and implement their own place-based programs. Its first initiative will be to combat the devastation of COVID-19 in the Black community.

Canada has written two books:\\u00a0\\u201cFist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence\\u201d<\\/em>\\u00a0and \\u201cReaching Up for Manhood: Transforming the Lives of Boys in America,\\u201d addressing the social issues of growing up in troubled areas. He also gave a TED Talk about how schools are failing to educate children adequately.
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After graduating from Berea College in 1979 with a bachelor\\u2019s degree in psychology, Lane was employed as a social worker with the Greenville Hospital System for 20 years. In 2000, she was hired as a selection\\/intake coordinator with the Governor\\u2019s Office Continuum of Care Program in South Carolina. She was later assigned to the role of service coordinator until her retirement in 2017.

Lane was the recipient of the Carter G. Woodson award at Berea College in 1994 and the Alumni Loyalty award in 2012. She has continued to volunteer as an Admissions alumni ambassador since 1986.

Lane has served on numerous community and agency boards. She is active in her church, Enoree Baptist Church, in Greenville, S.C., where she serves on the Hospitality Committee and is one of the youth advisors. Lane currently resides in Maudlin, S.C. with her husband, Bill Lane, a 1976 Berea College graduate.

As one of four Alumni Trustees on the board, Lane was nominated by the Alumni Executive Council to serve a six-year term. Other Berea alumni serve as regular members of the Berea College Board of Trustees.
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The awards were presented by Berea College President Lyle Roelofs during the annual Service Convocation, hosted by the College\\u2019s Center for Excellence in Learning through Service and the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center.
Born in Banner Elk, North Carolina, Stephenson has focused her career on helping people, especially women from Appalachia, to achieve their educational and career goals.
In 1987, she founded the New Opportunity School for Women (NOSW) at Berea College. The NOSW seeks to improve the financial, educational and personal circumstances of low-income women in the Appalachian region and began by offering a free, multi-week residency program. The NOSW has since expanded, with programs now at Lees-McRae College in Banner Elk, North Carolina, and Bluefield College in Bluefield, Virginia, as well as shorter, non-residential programs throughout the region. More than 925 women have graduated from NOSW programs. Stephenson directed the Berea-based program from 1987 to 1996 and remains closely involved with the NOSW Foundation through fundraising, advocacy and advising.
Prior to founding NOSW, Stephenson taught courses and held administrative leadership positions at the University of Kentucky, served as the First Lady of Berea College while her husband, John Stephenson, was president, and later served as the Appalachian director of the Steele-Reese Foundation.
Stephenson earned degrees from Lees-McRae College, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Appalachian State University, and the University of Kentucky. She has published three books featuring stories from NOSW graduates. She has been recognized with numerous awards, including honorary degrees from Berea College, Eastern Kentucky University and Lees-McRae College, as well as Oprah Winfrey\\u2019s Use Your Life Award. Stephenson has served on multiple boards and continues to be featured as a guest speaker at community events and conferences.
Michael Maloney is a community organizer, educator, social researcher, and civil rights activist. Born in Breathitt County, Kentucky, Maloney moved to Cincinnati to attend college and started a movement to encourage urban Appalachians to celebrate their heritages and to organize community-based programs to serve people from the mountains and their descendants.
Maloney has worked to establish more than 40 programs that address these goals in Cincinnati and southern Ohio, including founding the Urban Appalachian Council in 1974, to promote decent quality of life for Appalachian citizens in Greater Cincinnati. He led the organization for years and helped transform it into the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition (UACC) in 2014, now an alliance of individuals and organizations committed to the well-being of Appalachian people, communities, and cultural expression in the greater Cincinnati area.
A member of the founding meeting of the Appalachian Studies Association, Maloney has advocated for Appalachian people through activism, service, scholarship and teaching. He earned degrees from the Seminary of St. Pius X, Xavier University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has received numerous awards, including the Bob Evans Humanitarian Award and the Appalachia Studies Association\\u2019s Brown\\/Williams Community Service Award. He has taught courses in Appalachian Studies at colleges and universities in the Greater Cincinnati metropolitan area, and his research has served as a foundation for the work of other scholars in community planning and neighborhood integration.
Maloney now advises non-profit organizations and offers trainings on topics related to the Appalachian region and community organizing.
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