DAVIDSON HISTORY
Black Barbershops: A Davidson Tradition, Part II, The Nortons
NEWS Most longtime Davidson residents remember Norton’s Barbershop, most recently owned by Ken Norton. Ken, however, was not the first barber in the family. This distinction goes to his uncle, Rutledge Norton. Rutledge was the son of Charlie and Elizabeth Clark...
Black Barber Shops: A Davidson Tradition
NEWS Editors' Note: This article uses verbatim language from a bygone era, language that would not be appropriate today. It is used in an illustrative manner to tell this important historical aspect of our community. Davidson freshman Aubrey Brown, who was...
Davidson College in the Late ’20s
NEWS An interesting digital document in the Davidson College Archives is the scrapbook of Aubrey Brown of Mineral Springs, Texas, who graduated in 1929. The following excerpts from his letters describe life at the college during his first days there in September...
Davidson College in 1888
NEWS In his book “Memories of Davidson College,” former college president Walter Lingle described what the college was like when he enrolled in 1888. Things on today’s large modern campus are quite different than what he remembered: “Those were primitive days as we...
Life at Davidson College in the 1840s and 1850s
DAVIDSON HISTORY Cornelia Shaw, in her history of Davidson College, writes of an unsigned sketch entitled “Davidson in the Forties,” which was found among the papers of Dr. Jethro Rumple, who graduated in 1850. It is one of only a few descriptions of college life at...