University of Louisville - Thoroughbred Yearbook (Louisville, KY)

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THE PRESIDENT W'ith his diploma in one hand and his new wife in the other, Philip Davidson began teaching in-the high schools of Mississippi, where he remained for three years. He had graduated with a BS. from the University of Mississippi in 1922. From 1925 until 1927 he taught in the history department of the University of Illinois while working on his doctorate in history, which he re- ceived in 1929 at the University of Chicago. Dr. Davidson held positions as Professor of History and Head of the Department at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia. At Vanderbilt Univer- sity he was Dean of the Graduate School and Senior College, and Provost of the University. The President came to the University of Louisville from Vanderbilt in June, 1951. In June, 1954 President Davidson received the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature from the University of the South. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, he has served on the Lectureship panel of this honorary, as well as the Board of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foun- dation. He is also a member of Omicron Delta Kappa and the Newcomen Society. 111 Louisville he is a member of the Norton Infirmary Psychiatric Council, the Board of Di- rectors of the Louisville Chamber of Commerce, the Board of Directors of the Louisville Fund, the Board of Directors of the Louisville Philharmonic Society, the Louisville Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, and the J. B. Speed Museum. A member of the Rotary Club of Louisville, Dr. Davidson was President of the Nashville Rotary Club from 1950 to 1951. He has served on various committees in St. Andrews Episcopal Church. He was General Chairman for Brotherhood Week in Kentucky tNational Conference of Christians and Jewsi in 1954 and 1959. From 1954 to 1958 he served as President of the Kentucky Branch of the English-Speaking Union. Dr. Davidson is the author of two books: History of Georgia and Propaganda and the Ameri- rm: Revolution. He also contributes to This Is the South. The Presidents chief relaxation, besides hunting and fishing, is found in his workshop, where he has turned out ambitious reproductions like an 18th Century cherry tripod table. He and his son Philip, in college at the time, even constructed a boat one summer. Philip is now mar- ried and has three children; the Davidsonls daughter also has three children, and both families live in Nashville, Tennessee. President Davidson and his wife have only one child left in Louis- ville: Splinters, their black cocker spaniel.

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES The Board of Trustees of the University of Louisville is composed of ten prominent members of the community. Members of the Board are nominated by the Mayor of the City of Louisville and are approved by the Board of Aldermen for terms of ten years. Terms of two members expire every even year. The Board of Trustees is the policy- making body of. the University. It selects the President of the University, and adopts its budget and has final responsibility for, and authority over, all matters pertaining to the LEE P. MILLER University. Chairman Lee Miller presides at the monthly meetings which Chairman are held Wednesday afternoons at 4:00 in President Davidsonhs offxce. FIRST Row, LEFT T0 RIGHT: Eli H. Brown, 111; Miss Adele Brandeis; Mr. Robert T. Burke, Jr., Secretary. SECOND Row, LEFT 'ro RIGHT: Arthur H. Alme stedt; Henry Y. Offutt, Vice Chairman; Oscar 0. Miller; Eugene D. Hill, VVathen R. Knebelkamp; John V. Collins; Lee P. Miller, Chairman.