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

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D. Grier Martin B.S., LL.D. President of the College 17

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DEDICATED TO (DavicL ' hWi, WjoudbL It is with great pleasure and pride that the QUIPS AND CRANKS dedicates its 1959 edition to our new President. A leader whose path to Davidson ' s high office has been varied and interesting, Mr. Martin brings with him years of experience that render him especially suitable for the position he holds. Students and faculty alike have been enthusiastic with him in guiding Davidson College into a new era in the educational world. Combining an innate quality of humility and a personal charm with an under- lying confidence, Mr. Martin promises to continue being a courageous and circumspect helmsman. A native of Georgia, Mr. Martin completed his under- graduate work at Davidson with the class of 1932. Moving into the business world after graduate work and a short time in Davidson ' s alumni office, Mr. Martin was for sev- eral years a coal and then textile executive. His devotion to Davidson College again brought him back to the campus in 1951 when he became Treasurer. With Trustee action in the spring of 1958, Mr. Martin moved up Cham- bers ' corridor to the President ' s office. It was particularly fitting that our sister institution, King College, conferred upon Mr. Martin this year an honorary doctorate; for Bristol, Tennessee, was his home and place of business during part of his earlier career. At an April academic convocation this spring, educators and friends joined with the College in celebrating the formal inauguration of D. Grier Martin, devoted husband and father, virtuous personage, and dedicated leader. Mr. and Mrs. Martin were joined by Iheir two sons, Mike, left, and D. G., at the occasion of Mr. Martin ' s election a year ago. Daughter Mimy was in France at the time. isi up v u

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President J. McDowell Richards Vice-President Dr. Thomas D. Sparrow Secretary Frank P. Hall Treasurer D. Grier Martin The Reverend J. McDowell Richards, D.D., LL.D. Board of Trustees John M. Belk Scott Candler W. C. Cannon Dr. J. H. Carter Jerome B. Clark Col. J. C. Cooper George S. Crouch Dr. C. Grier Davis George R. Edwards Dr. Clyde Foushee Dr. J. Wayte Fulton, Jr. Dr. Alton H. Glasure Mr. Robert W. Gorrell Tom Gray R. K. Gregory R. D. Grier Dr. B. Frank Hall Dr. Warner L. Hall Dr. T. H. Hamilton James C. Harper Dr. James P. Hendrix Ralph M, Holt Joseph Hunter Dr. James A. Jones R. S. Kelly George M. King Dr. A. J. Kissling D. R. LaFor, Jr. Walter L. Lingle, Jr. J. Spencer Love Dr. Frank McCutchan Dr. Hamilton W. McKay E. T. McKeithen J. Harold McKeithen Dr. A. A. McLean Rev. M. C. MacQueen W. Olin Nisbet, Jr. Rev. P. D. Patrick Dr. T. H. Patterson Cloyd A. Potts Rev. Roscoe L. Prince Dr. John A. Redhead Dr. Kelsey Regen Roderick K. Shaw John 1. Smith Rev. John R. Smith Rev. Fred R. Stair Claire Stanford Ivey W. Stewart Dr. Taliaferro Thompson Harold B. Wahl Dr. Ronald S. Wilson Board of Visitors James J. Harris, Chairman Mrs. Walter Woodson, Vice-Chairman Robert J. Sailstad, Executive Secretary John M. Akers Charles H. Babcock Dr. James P. Baxter, III Tom M. Belk Osborne Bethea Harllee Branch Dr. George A. Buttrick J. Robert Covington Dr. Lauchlin M. Currie Harry L. Dalton Dr. W. C. Davison Dr. Theodore A. Distler Edward Dwelle, Jr. Dr. William C. Friday Howard Holderness Karl G. Hudson Mrs. Curtis B. Johnson Dr. Thor Johnson Edwin L. Jones Huger S. King Walter L. Lingle, Jr. E. H. Little Dr. James Ross McCain C. A. McKnight Charles F. Myers, Jr. Richard H. O ' Hair Edward A. O ' Neal W. Y. Preyer Thomas L. Robinson Dr. Francis C. Rosecrance Dr. Dean Rusk Dr. Samuel R. Spencer Thomas F. Staley Fred Thompson John F. Watlington, Jr. Mrs. S. Clay Williams E. T. Woolfolk Executive Committee, also Board of Visitors. embers of the 18