OUR COLUMNISTS Efforts to establish a college in the western part of North Carolina began over fifteen years before Davidson College was founded. Local residents wanted their sons to be able to get a higher education somewhere closer than South Carolina, Northern colleges like Princeton, or even the University of North Carolina, which opened in […]

OUR COLUMNISTS Craig White, M.D. This is a series of articles about the history of Davidson Family Medicine as we celebrate its 25th anniversary in downtown Davidson. In The Origins Right Here in Davidson, I wrote about how the seeds of Davidson Family Medicine were planted while growing up just outside town. My four years […]

OUR COLUMNISTS Nancy Griffith I’ve written several articles on Davidson physics professor and later college president Henry Louis Smith, but somehow, I’ve neglected to write much about one of his most important innovations. Thanks to John Woods for the reminder! Smith was one of the first in the United States, and probably the first in […]

OUR COLUMNISTS This is a love story, although perhaps an odd one. It begins a long time ago, when I was a senior at Wake Forest University. The bulletin board said a coed intramural volleyball league was forming. Larry Lyon I never once had any interest in playing volleyball with other guys. Why would I? […]

OUR COLUMNISTS Craig White, M.D. In The Origins Right Here in Davidson, I wrote about how the seeds of Davidson Family Medicine were planted while I grew up just outside town. Then came Davidson College, where Davidson College Humanities Professors shaped how I understood people, ideas, and a world far beyond my own experience. As I wrote in Davidson […]

Search for: OUR COLUMNISTS Emmie Alexander Hancock Every year when school starts again, my thoughts go back to the time when I was a high school English teacher at Myers Park High in Charlotte. I now realize that those three years were the last of the “happy days” before the world changed dramatically in the […]