{"id":193,"date":"2020-07-21T17:33:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T17:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalprojects.davidson.edu\/jewishidentity\/?page_id=193"},"modified":"2020-10-13T19:58:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T19:58:01","slug":"dr-ruth-ault","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digitalprojects.davidson.edu\/jewishidentity\/dr-ruth-ault\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Ruth Ault"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When Rabbi Shields gave the opening prayer at a graduation [in the late 2000s], that was the first time that had occurred. I remember he very explicitly had asked the President whether it would be problem if he said a very short prayer in Hebrew. He was quite nervous about how to handle that, but most of us had no idea who was gonna be doing the opening prayer, and when he got up, we all went, “Wow, okay Davidson! One more step into the future!” Or into the present.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Ruth Ault grew up in a Conservative Jewish family in Chicago, Illinois. She earned her Ph.D in psychology in 1972. After teaching at Brigham Young University for seven years, Ruth Ault was hired by the Davidson College Psychology Department in 1979. She was the first Jewish faculty member in the College\u2019s history. She received tenure in 1982 and retired in 2014 after teaching at Davidson for thirty-five years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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