Today, students lounge around their rooms enjoying the luxuries of air conditioning, refrigerators, microwaves, TVs, and petit bathrooms tucked away in the corner of each room.
Charlotte, N. C. The Industrial Center of the New South. [printed on front]. Photo only copyrighted 1909.
Postcard sent to Miss Cornelia Shaw in Davidson, June 24, 1911, from Eugene Alexander (Class of 1912). Cornelia Shaw was Davidson College's first full-time librarian (she also served as the college's registrar).
Text of the postcard: "Mother died this morning at 1:30, She had been unconscious for several days and had suffered very intensely - Funeral tomorrow. Eugene Alexander"
Thomas Warren Ross, Sr. began his post as Davidson’s 17th president on August 1, 2007. A Davidson College graduate of the class of 1972, Ross attended law school at the Univsersity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating with honors. For 17 years, he served as a North Carolina Superior Court judge, appointed by Governor Jim Martin (Davidson Class of 1957). For his dedicated service in that position, he received the William H. Rehnquist Award for Judicial Excellence in 2000. Prior to accepting the presidency of Davidson College, Ross served as the executive director of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation from 2000 until 2007.