Albany College of Pharmacy - Alembic Yearbook (Albany, NY)

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CARTER DAVIDSON Carter Davidson, Chancellor of Union University and president of Union College for 19 years, died suddenly on October 20, 1965. Dr. Davidson had left Union in February of 1965 to assume the post of President of the Association of American Colleges in Washington, D.C. Always deeply interested in his students and faculty. Dr. Davidson often ad- dressed University members in an appeal for continued intellectual grow'th and closer ties among the five colleges comprising the university. The former chancellor came to Union in 1946 after serving as president of Knox College in Illinois for ten years. A graduate of Harvard, the University of Louisville, and the U niversity of Chicago, Dr. Davidson received many honorary degrees in his lifetime as an educator. Among his awards were L.L.D. degrees from Ripon College, from Syracuse University, from Carleton College, and from New York Universitv. He also received Litt. D. degrees from the University of Louisville. Wagner Uni- versity and Elmira College. Dr. Davidson began his teaching career in his hometown of Louisville in 1925 as a high school instructor. He then taught English at the University of Idaho, the University of Chicago, and Carleton College before he was named Assistant to the president of Knox College in 1932. When in 1936, he became president of Knox, Dr. Davidson held the distinction of being the youngest college president in the country. After World War II, Carter Davidson assumed presidency of Union College and Chancellorship of the University. Under his leadership, the university classes grew in size, and dormitories, libraries, new wings, the medical science building, and a new field house came into existence. More important. Dr. Davidson’s interest in providing the most complete education for those whom he served gave impetus to the search for new ideas in the field. Under his leadership the curriculum and calendar were re-examined and attempts toward revision initiated. Besides his devotion to education. Dr. Davidson was an ordained Minister of the Congregational Church and an interpreter of poetry. He co-authored writh Louis Unter- meyer several books, and was a frequent contributor to magazines and newspapers. Among his many other interests in the field of education Dr. Davidson was founder and first chairman of the Empire State Foundation of Liberal Arts Colleges. He also served as chairman of the Independent College Funds of America. As President of the 850 member Association of American Colleges, his most recent assignment, Union’s former chancellor represented educational causes before congressional hearings and made numerous trips to speak at forums on education throughout the country. Those of us fortunate enough at ACP in having listened to Carter Davidson will long remember his sincerity and concern for us as students of today and as sig- nificantly, citizens of tomorrow. Dean 0. Edward Pollock, head of students at Union, offered in tribute the following in which we join: “. . . He was a great man whose personal humility wras unbounded. He was a gentleman, a scholar and a friend.”

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IN MEMORIAM CARTER DAVIDSON

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