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Davidson College - Faculty

 Subject
Subject Source: Fast

Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:

Anne E.Sampson Reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: DC0156s
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of a letter to Miss Cornelia Shaw describing Davidson College in the 1880s.

Dates: 1920

Colin Alexander Munroe Letters

 Collection
Identifier: DC0129s
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of two letters written by Munroe. The first written in 1869 while Munroe was a student describes Davidson College and the faculty. There is also a typescript of the letter. The second letter was written in 1917 to Miss Cornelia Shaw and gives his memories of college life.

Dates: 1869 - 1917

Dandridge Spottswood Burwell Reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: DC0168s
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of a letter written to Cornelia Shaw describing Burwell's memories of Davidson College faculty and students.

Dates: 1918

Elijah Frink Rockwell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: DC0152s
Scope and Contents The collection consists of correspondence (1850-1869), reports (1848-1857), literary materials (1851-1867), and a certificate (1783). The correspondence includes a letter to Benjamin Silliman (1850) and letters about Davidson College (1867-1869). The reports include a subscription book for the college (1848-1850), an account book (1854-1857) and a report of the Treasurer(1850). The literary materials include notebooks of clippings about church history and the American Revolution with...
Dates: 1783, 1848-1869

Henry Alexander Chambers Reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: DC0141s
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of a letter written to Miss Cornelia Shaw, librarian of Davidson College. The letter gives some family history and describes college life and the faculty in the 1860s. For the typescript of "The Chambers Family of Iredell County" by Henry Chambers, see the Farmville file in Chalmer Davidson's Plantation files (DC058).

Dates: 1917

Henry Elias Fries Papers

 Collection
Identifier: DC0029s
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of manuscript copies of 4 letters and photocopies of 22 letters written by Fries (1874-1876) and speeches given to the Philanthropic Society as vice-president and president in 1877. The letters discuss college life and Davidson faculty. The location of the original letters for the photocopies in unknown.

Dates: 1874 - 1877

Henry Tracy Lilly Collection

 Collection
Identifier: DC047
Scope and Contents The collection contains correspondence, literary materials, biographical information, and restricted information. The correspondence includes letters from family and aquaintances from 1936-1966, letters from students, 1956-1973, letters of condolence following Lilly's death in 1973, and letters he wrote to Mrs. Lilly, 1948-1965. There is also considerable correspondence between Lilly and Harriet Doar, Charlotte Observer Book Editor, 1962-1969 and with former student John McKnight, 1973-1974...
Dates: 1922 - 1995

Interview with Frontis W. Johnston '30, 1989 January 25

 Item — Audiocassette box 4: Series RG19-01-01; Series RG19-01-03, Cassette case: Audio 59
Identifier: OHI-0108
Scope and Contents

Interview of Dr. Frontis W. Johnston ‘30 by John P. Scherer (Class of 1989) as part of his senior project for the history department. Johnston describes the Vietnam War issue on Davidson’s campus through the late 1960s and early 1970s. Johnston discusses faculty-admin relations, activism, civil rights, the fraternity issue, and compulsory ROTC.

Dates: 1989 January 25

Interview with Herb Jackson '67, 1989 January 31

 Item — Audiocassette box 4: Series RG19-01-01; Series RG19-01-03, Cassette case: Audio 61
Identifier: OHI-0372
Scope and Contents

Interview of Herb Jackson ‘67 by John P. Scherer (Class of 1989) as part of his senior project for the history department. Jackson describes the Vietnam War issue on Davidson’s campus through the late 1960s and early 1970s. Jackson discusses student-faculty relations, activism, the fraternity issue, the draft, lack of support for art at Davidson, and compulsory ROTC and vespers and chapel attendance.

Dates: 1989 January 31

Interview with R. David Kaylor, 1989 January 23

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: OHI-0112
Scope and Contents

Interview of Dr. R. David Kaylor by John P. Scherer (Class of 1989) as part of his senior project for the history department. Kaylor describes the Vietnam War issue on Davidson’s campus through the late 1960s and early 1970s. Kaylor discusses student-faculty relations, activism, civil rights, and compulsory ROTC and vespers and chapel attendance.

Dates: 1989 January 23