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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DEAN’S MESSAGE Graduates of 1966. In behalf of the Faculty and Board of Trustees, I congratulate you on the completion of the special task you began five years ago. We hope that your perseverance in the performance of your duties as students will have disciplined you for your future responsibilities as citizens in a free society and as professional men and women. It has been a pleasure to work with you as students. Both of us undoubtedly have fallen short of the ideals and the performance each has expected of the other but that is to be expected in human endeavors. I am sorry that you are leaving but 1 am very happy that you are on the threshold of a new opportunity for the expression of your individual hopes and ambitions. 1 have been very fortunate to have been the Dean of such a fine group of young men and women. You have been cooperative in matters of discipline, realizing that the many rules of conduct both personal and academic were not arbitrary, but to assist you in attaining the highest possible ideals and efficiency both as citizens of the academic community and as professional students. I thank you for your loyalty to your school and to your country which you have expressed in many of the things you did and even more in the things you did not do. Most of you will begin the practice of either pharmacy or medical technology either immediately or in the near future. Whether you perform your services in a Community Pharmacy, a hospital, or a laboratory or even in a small segregated section of a super corporate enterprise you will have the opportunity of giving a personalized service to those who need it. 1 hope that you will receive the huge reward of personal satisfaction as you come to realize how necessary your knowledge and skills are to society in general and to those individuals in particular who must entrust their health and sometimes their life to your professional acumen. If you give your service freely and beyond the call of duty, with dignity, and from your heart, to ail who have need of it you will be richly rewarded in the happiness that comes from a job we 11 done. To those of you who will shortly be called upon to serve your country in the armed forces so that its freedom and integrity may be maintained, I extend my thanks for helping me to continue to live in that kind of a country. To you who will continue your formal education either now or at a time in the near future. I express the hope that your undergraduate learning and experiences will have inspired you to even a greater and more determined effort in the graduate school. 1 bid a fond farewell to all of you as students and extend an earnest welcome to join me now as a colleague in our mutual professional interests. I hope to have the pleasure of meeting you many times in the future at our organization meetings, college and alumni affairs, and in the many avenues where as professional colleagues we can be of service one to the other. Dean Francis ,J. O’Brien