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Stephenson, John Bell was born on September 26, 1937 in Staunton, Virginia, United States. Son of Louis Bell and Edna May (Moles) Stephenson.
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Ford-A Village in the West Highlands of Scotland: A Case Study of Repopulation and Social Change in a Small Community
(The Highlands of Scotland, like the southern Appalachians...)
The Highlands of Scotland, like the southern Appalachians of the United States, have long been a problem area in Great Britain, troubled with a fading economy and loss of population. Most books about the region, however, are popular volumes that romanticize a bygone way of life. This study of Ford, a village of some 160 people in western Argyllshire, thus fills a gap in the literature and provides a look at the present realities of Scottish life. Although the Highlands are by no means a homogeneous region, Ford in its size and makeup is perhaps a representative rural settlement. John Stephenson, who conducted extensive interviews in the village during 1981, focuses his study on the theme of survival, on whether this particular village shows signs of enduring as a community of people bound together by common interests and situations. Though necessarily tentative, his conclusions are optimistic. Ford has shown a recent increase in population, consisting almost entirely of newcomers, and though its residents have now a more varied background, they seem to have a sense of place, of belonging to the village. This book will provide new insights not only for those interested in life in the Highlands but also for all those interested in small communities in other parts of the world.
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Shiloh: a mountain community
(1968 University of Kentucky Press; First Edition Hardcover)
1968 University of Kentucky Press; First Edition Hardcover
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Ford: A Village in the West Highlands of Scotland
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John Bell STEPHENSON
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John Bell Stephenson, American academic administrator. Recipient Fulbright Senior Research award, 1981; Academy Administration Internship Program fellow American Council on Education, 1973-1974. Chairman board Appalachian Fund, Berea, Kentucky, since 1984. Member Appalachian Studies Conference (chairman 1980-1981), Southern Sociological Society, Elderhostel (national board directors)., Phi Beta Kappa.
Education
Bachelor of Arts, William and Mary College, 1959; Master of Arts, University North Carolina, 1961; Doctor of Philosophy, University North Carolina, 1967.
Career
He earned a B.A. degree in sociology from the College of William and Mary in Virginia in 1959, and M.A. His dissertation, a community study of Celo, North Carolina, became his first book, Shiloh: A Mountain Community (1968). After returning to Chapel Hill to complete his doctoral studies, he joined department of sociology at the University of Kentucky in Lexington in the fall of 1966. Connecting with the emerging field of Appalachian studies, he co-edited Appalachia in the Sixties (1972) with sociology graduate student David Walls.
He served as dean of undergraduate studies from 1978 to 1981, as special assistant to the chancellor in 1983-84, and was the first director of the Appalachian Center, which he was instrumental in helping organize, from 1979 to 1984. During this time he became an incorporator and first chair of the Appalachian Studies Conference (now known as the Appalachian Studies Association). In 1984 he was appointed the seventh president of Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, the first president of the liberal arts college to come from a public university.
During his tenure as president, Berea College reemphasized its historic commitment to African American and Appalachian students. The college also took initiatives to support women, including Jane 's New Opportunity School for Women. Faculty and staff salaries were increased significantly.
John established ties with a diverse group of notable people whom he brought to speak at Berea College, from Roots author Alex Haley, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, to His Holiness, The Dalai Lama. established the Tibetan scholarship program, which supports students at Berea College from the Tibetan exile community in India. He was also a successful fundraiser. During his tenure as president, the Berea College endowment increased from $120 to $360 million. retired in July 1994, several years after he was diagnosed with leukemia.
He died suddenly after a viral infection in December 1994. He was selected as an American Council on Education Fellow in 1973-74, and as a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar in 1981, which he used for research in Scotland which was presented in his book, Ford: A Village in the West Highlands of Scotland (1984). He served on boards of the Kentucky Literacy Foundation, the national Elderhostel program, the Frontier Nursing Service, and the Appalachian Regional Hospitals.
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Works
book
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Ford-A Village in the West Highlands of Scotland: A Case Study of Repopulation and Social Change in a Small Community
(The Highlands of Scotland, like the southern Appalachians...)
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Shiloh: a mountain community
(1968 University of Kentucky Press; First Edition Hardcover)
- Shiloh a Mountain Community
- Ford: A Village in the West Highlands of Scotland
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Ford-A Village in the West Highlands of Scotland: A Case Study of Repopulation and Social Change in a Small Community
Membership
Chairman board Appalachian Fund, Berea, Kentucky, since 1984. Member Appalachian Studies Conference (chairman 1980-1981), Southern Sociological Society, Elderhostel (national board directors)., Phi Beta Kappa.
Connections
Married Jane Ellen Baucom, March 30, 1962. Children– Jennifer Ann, Rebecca Jane, John David.
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Presbyterian
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1964
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1964