Davidson College - Quips and Cranks Yearbook (Davidson, NC)

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DeWitt F. Helm, Jr. Editor J. Hugh Malone, jr. Business Manager P re Sen ts tin - ' : ' .-.- ' -V. -. ■■■ .: ■ ■- :- ■ The Senior Class of Davidson College Davidson, north Carolina 1956 Page Fourteen

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and dedicates it to Dr. iflronttB Utters ilofjustfltL Dr. Johnston ' s college choice was inevitable. I lis lather was a Presbyterian minister, and he has been a Presbyterian since before I was born. Both his father and grandfather had gone to Davidson; his great-grandfather was graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1827, but that was during the years before there was a Davidson College. In 1936, Dr. Johnston further strengthened his college and community ties by his marriage to Miss Lucy Martin Currie, whose lather taught at Davidson for forty years and whose grandfather taught here even longer. Through the years Dr. Johnston has taught all kinds of history, but his favorite courses arc the ones he teaches in the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Modern South. Students are amazed at his ability to lecture extemporaneously and at the warmth his scholarly lectures impart. This peculiar felicity of expression is no enigma, since to him the greatest satisfaction in the teaching profession is to feel that you have successfully inspired your students. In 1947. Dr. Johnston began research on one of North Carolina ' s most colorful leaders, Zebulon Baird Vance. Past school year he studied with a lord Foundation faculty fellowship at the University of North Carolina, where his work was devoted to his Modern South course and the biography ot Vance he is currently writing. Dr. Johnston ' s lectures to the F.B.I. National Police Academy and the Southern Police Institute operated by the University of Louisville periodically call him awa from Davidson, and his work with the North Carolina Literary and Historical Asso- ciation and the Historical Society of North Carolina further demands his time. Nevertheless, lor a number of years he has served both as a ruling elder in the Davidson College Presbyterian Church and as Faculty Chairman of Athletics. As a man with varied interests, whose life has been dedicated to his family, his profession, and his Alma Mater, Dr. Frontis Withers Johnston is the epitome of the main abstract and elusive qualities that characterize Davidson College and make her sons unique. Page Sixteen