University of Louisville - Thoroughbred Yearbook (Louisville, KY)

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THE PRESIDENT With 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 B.S. 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 received in 1929 at the University of Chicago. Dr. David- son held positions as Professor of History and Head of the Department at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Geor- gia. At Vanderbilt University he was Dean of the Graduate School and Senior College, and Provost of the Uni- versity. 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 Foundation. He is also a member of Omicron Delta Kappa and the Newcomen Society. In Louisville he is a member of the Norton Infirmary Psychiatric Council, the Board of Directors 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 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. Andrew's Episcopal Church. He was General Chairman for Brotherhood Week in Kentucky Q National Conference of Christians and Jewsj 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 American Revolu- tion. He also contributes to This Is The South. The President's chief relaxation, besides hunting and fishing, is found in his workshop, where he has turned out ambitious reproductions like an Eighteenth Century cherry tripod table. He and his son Philip, in college at the time, even constructed a boat one summer. Philip is now married and has three children, the David- sons, daughter also has three children. Both families live in Nashville, Tennessee. President Davidson and his wife have only one child left in Louisville: Splinters, their black cocker spaniel. 25

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'wif-if 1-251: f - fig - - f if g . HY I , LEE P. MILLER Chairman 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 Univer- sity. Chairman Lee Miller presides at the monthly meetings which are held Wednesday afternoons at 4:00 in President Davidson's office. v M ,-. it x 1-, W: ,EL KK I L RGHT- Eli H. Brown III' Miss Adele Brandeisg Mr. Robert T. Burke, jr., Secretaryg Arthur H. Almstedtg Henry Y. Offutt, Vice Chair- mE11f1T 'gseaii O. Millerg Eugene, D. l-Iillg Wathen R. Knebelkarnpg john V. Co1l1nsgLee P.M11ler, Chairman. 26