List of Davidson College people
Davidson is a highly selective independent liberal arts college for 1,900 students located 20 minutes north of Charlotte in Davidson, N.C. Since its establishment in 1837 by Presbyterians, the college has graduated 23 Rhodes Scholars and is consistently regarded as one of the top liberal arts colleges in the country. Through The Davidson Trust, the college became the first liberal arts institution in the nation to replace loans with grants in all financial aid packages, giving all students the opportunity to graduate debt-free. Davidson competes in NCAA athletics at the Division I level, and a longstanding Honor Code is central to student life at the college.
The following is a list of notable people associated with Davidson College, located in the American city of Davidson, North Carolina.
Notable alumni
Arts, film, theatre, and broadcasting
- Roxanne Beckford, actress
- Craig Detweiler, screenwriter, cultural commentator
- William R. Ferris, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1997–2001; founding director, Center for the Study of Southern Culture
- John T. Fesperman, conductor and organist
- Herb Jackson, contemporary artist
- Laeta Kalogridis, screenwriter and film producer
- Jana Mashonee Sampson, singer[1]
- John Howell Morrison, composer
- Lester Strong, Emmy Award-winning journalist
- James Harding (journalist), British journalist
- Bertis Downs IV, R.E.M. manager
- Richard E. Blanchard, Sr., gospel music writer
- John T. Fesperman, organist
- Stephen Andrew Lynch, film pioneer
- Michael Brun, DJ
- Donald Davis (storyteller), storyteller
- Nelson Sullivan, videographer and gay rights activist
- McNair Evans, photographer
- Frank Gohlke, photographer (attended, but later transferred to The University of Texas at Austin)
- Harry Pickens, pianist
- Rod Daniel
- Kesler Woodward
- William R. Trotter
- Jack Harris (broadcaster)
Athletics
- Mik Aoki, Baseball Head Coach of the University of Notre Dame (2011–present)
- Brett Boretti, Baseball Head Coach of the Columbia Lions (2006–present)
- De'Mon Brooks, basketball player
- Alex Caskey, MLS player with Seattle Sounders (2012–present)
- Jake Cohen, American/Israeli professional basketball player for Maccabi Tel Aviv
- Pat Crawford, MLB player and member of the 1934 World Series St. Louis Cardinals
- Stephen Curry (basketball) (did not graduate), NBA basketball player (2009–present)
- Alex Gibbs, Assistant Head Coach of the Houston Texans (2008–10)
- Fred Hetzel, NBA basketball player (1965–71)
- Terry Holland, basketball coach at Davidson (1969–74), University of Virginia (1974–90)
- Pete Hughes, Baseball Head Coach of the Oklahoma Sooners (2012–present)
- Tyler Kalinoski, basketball player
- Mike Maloy, ABA and overseas basketball player
- Matt Matheny, Elon basketball coach
- Chris Pollard, Baseball Head Coach of Duke University (2012-present)
- Caroline Queen, 2012 USA Olympic whitewater slalom K-1 kayaker
- Dick Snyder, NBA basketball player (1966–79)
- Matt Spear, Davidson soccer coach
- Scotty Barr, MLB player
- Charlie Reiter, professional soccer player
- Buck Flowers, American football player
- Fred Anderson (baseball), MLB player
- Flake Laird, college football, baseball, and basketball coach and player
- Oliver Huie, college football coach
- George M. King, college football player
- Bart Creasman, professional soccer player
- Brendan Winters, professional basketball player
- Fred Johnston, MLB player
- Robert Eenhoorn, MLB player
- Dean Keener, college basketball player, coach, and commentator
- Robert Ukrop, professional soccer player
- Ryan Adeleye, professional soccer player
- Rod Knowles, professional basketball player
- Perry Crosswhite, Australian basketball player
- Nik Cochran, professional basketball player
- Bruce Elder (basketball), basketball player
- Jason Richards (basketball), basketball player and college basketball assistant
- Derek Rucker, Australian basketball player
- Brandon Williams (basketball), basketball player and NBA minor league coach
- Jennifer Roos, women's college basketball coach
- Everett Booe, baseball player
- Carl Cashion, baseball player
- Lloyd Christenbury, baseball player
- Rufe Clarke, baseball player
- Bob Vail, baseball player
- Dick Marlowe, baseball player
- Buck Marrow, baseball player
- Bill Masse, baseball player
- Paul Nichols, football coach
- Bill Fetzer, college baseball, basketball, and football coach
- William L. Younger, college football coach
- H. M. Grey, college football coach and player
- Kevin Donnalley, former NFL player
- Sam Lanford, professional baseball player
- Shirley Wilson, football coach
- Tom Dore, college basketball player
- John A. Brewin, college administrator
- Dougal M. Buie, college baseball coach
- Conor Grace
- Chris Czerapowicz
Business
- William Appleton, technologist
- James Batten, CEO, Knight-Ridder (1989–95)
- John Belk, head of Belk
- John Chidsey, CEO, Burger King, Inc. (2006–11)
- Martin Daniel Eakes, CEO, Center for Responsible Lending (2000–present)
- Stephen P. MacMillan, former CEO, President, Chairman of the Board, Stryker Corp.
- Lunsford Richardson, inventor of Vicks VapoRub and founder of Vicks
- Clayton Daley, former CFO of The Procter & Gamble Company
- Jack Wayman, the creator of the Consumer Electronics Show
- Ty Morse, leader in mobile marketing
- Lawrence Wilkinson, helped start Oxygen (TV channel)
- Earl J. Hesterberg
- Justin Jenk
Education
- Graham T. Allison, professor at Harvard and author of Essence of Decision (did not graduate)
- Roger H. Brown, President at Berklee College of Music (2004-present)
- James M. Farr, President of the University of Florida (1927–28); English language and literature scholar
- Elizabeth Kiss, President of Agnes Scott College (2006–present)
- Eugene C. Brooks, president of the University of North Carolina
- Thomas W. Ross, president of the University of North Carolina system
- Glenn Terrell, president of Washington State University
- Michael Munger, professor at Duke University
- Douglas A. Hicks, provost at Colgate University
- C. Alphonso Smith, professor
- Ben W. MacKay, professor
- William Andrew Moffett, historian and librarian
- Jennings Bryant, professor of communication at the University of Alabama
- Walter Edgar, historian
- John Wilson Moore, biophysicist
- Evander Bradley McGilvary, American philosopher
- Carl Elliott (philosopher), American philosopher
- James H. Daughdrill, Jr., president of Rhodes College
- Daniel Harvey Hill, Jr., chancellor at North Carolina State University
- Philip Beidler, American literature professor
- James M. Robinson
- Harold Douglas Pratt, Jr.
- Richard McIlwaine (educator)
- Julius W. Pratt
Law
- Wade Barber, Superior Court Judge in North Carolina (1998-2006)
- Kenneth B. Bell, Justice of the Florida Supreme Court (2003–2008)
- Samuel James Ervin III, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (1980-99)
- Sam J. Ervin IV, Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court (2015-present)
- William Eskridge, legal theorist and professor at Yale Law School
- Vincent Foster, Deputy White House Counsel in the Bill Clinton administration (1993)
- William J. Haynes, II, General Counsel, U.S. Department of Defense
- Boyce Ficklen Martin, Jr., Chief Judge Emeritus of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- John L. Napier, United States Congressman; Judge, U.S. Court of Federal Claims
- James Dickson Phillips, Jr., Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (1978-94).
- William Byrd Traxler, Jr., Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (1998–present)
- William Walter Wilkins, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (1986-2007)
- Conner Eldridge, US attorney for the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas
- Sanford L. Steelman, Jr., North Carolina Court of Appeals judge
- Vic Fleming, judge and teacher in Little Rock, Arkansas
- Richard Lesley Voorhees, United States federal judge
- Robert Allan Edgar, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee judge
- Harry Martin (judge), North Carolina Supreme Court justice
- Henry Gaston Bunn, Arkansas Supreme Court Chief Justice
- Alan Z. Thornburg, North Carolina Court of Appeals judge
- Taylor Hudnall Stukes, South Carolina Supreme Court chief justice
- James Edmund Boyd, United States federal judge
- Michael Lunn
Medicine
- Ketan Ramanlal Bulsara, surgeon
- Mark S. George, medical professor
- Wayne B. Jonas, director, NIH Office of Alternative Medicine[2]
- William Cumming Rose, determined essential amino acids for human nutrition
- David Talmage, immunologist
- Porter Paisley Vinson, surgeon at the Mayo Clinic
- Burkey Belser, graphic designer and creator of the Nutrition facts label
- Mary T. Martin Sloop
Military
- William D. Halyburton, Jr., World War II Medal of Honor recipient
- Rufus G. Herring, World War II Medal of Honor recipient
- Tom Marshburn, NASA astronaut
- Prescott Prince, Navy captain, rule of law officer who defended Khalid Sheik Mohammed
- Major General Stephen Dodson Ramseur
- Lieutenant General Jack C. Stultz, Commanding General, United States Army Reserve
- William Lee J. Lowrance, Confederate soldier
- Samuel Reeves Keesler, World War I pilot
- Fred Borch
Politics (elected office)
- John Belk, Mayor of Charlotte (1969–77)
- John Dillard Bellamy, United States Congressman from North Carolina (1899–1903)
- Kurt Biedenkopf, Minister-President of Saxony (1990-2002) and President of the German Bundesrat (1999–2000); studied at Davidson 1949–50
- David Blount, Member of the Mississippi Senate (2008-present)
- Dan Clodfelter, Mayor of Charlotte (2014-present), Member of the North Carolina Senate (1999-2014)
- George Cretekos, Mayor of Clearwater, Florida[3]
- John M. Faison, United States Congressman from North Carolina (1911–15)
- Anthony Foxx, Mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina (2009–13) and United States Secretary of Transportation (2013–present)
- David H. Gambrell, United States Senator from Georgia (1971–72) (appointed)
- David N. Henderson, United States Congressman from North Carolina (1961–77)
- Jim Hodges, Governor of South Carolina (1999–2003)
- James Holshouser, Governor of North Carolina (1973–77)
- Hinton James, United States Congressman from North Carolina (1930–31)
- James G. Martin, Governor of North Carolina (1985–93)
- Grier Martin, Member of the North Carolina House of Representatives (2005-present)
- Larry McDonald, United States Congressman from Georgia (1975–83); died 1983 when the Soviet Union shot down Korean Air Flight 007
- E. Blackburn Moore, Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates (1950-67)
- Maston E. O'Neal, Jr., United States Congressman from Georgia (1965–71)
- George Osborne, Member of Parliament and Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom; studied at Davidson as a Dean Rusk Scholar[4][5]
- Carl C. Perkins, United States Congressman from Kentucky (1984–93)
- William R. Purcell, member of the North Carolina Assembly
- Paul Renner, member of Florida House of Representatives
- Charlie Rose, United States Congressman from North Carolina (1973–97)
- John Shott, member of the West Virginia House of Delegates
- Jasper K. Smith, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives (1944-48; 1952-64)[6]
- John Spratt, United States Congressman from South Carolina (1982–2011), former ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee
- William Francis Stevenson, United States Congressman from South Carolina (1917–33)
- Mary Verner, Mayor of Spokane, Washington (2007–2012)
- Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States and President of Princeton University; (did not graduate)
- Robert Broadnax Glenn, governor of North Carolina
- James McNair Baker, Confederate Senator
- J. Bayard Clark, United States Congressman from North Carolina
- Mary Fant Donnan, candidate for North Carolina Commissioner of Labor
- E. McA. Currie, mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina
- Fletcher L. Hartsell, Jr., member of the North Carolina General Assembly
- Bill Ferguson (politician), member of the Maryland Senate
- Bill Bencini, mayor of High Point, North Carolina
- Ed Lindsey, member of the Georgia House of Representatives
- Carolyn Hugley, member of the Georgia House of Representatives
- James Dalrymple McIver, member of the North Carolina General Assembly
- George W. Gregory, Jr., member of the South Carolina House of Representatives
- DuBose Porter, chair of the Georgia Democratic Party and former member of the Georgia House of Representatives
- Stanley H. Fox, North Carolina Assembly member
- Greg Murphy (politician), North Carolina Assembly member
- Joe Jaworski, former mayor of Galveston, TX
Public and private service
- Kenneth L. Brown, US Ambassador to Ghana (1992–95)
- Vincent W. Foster, Jr., Deputy White House Counsel (1993)
- Wyche Fowler, Jr., United States Senator and Representative from Georgia (1977–93); US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (1996–2001)
- John L. McLucas, United States Secretary of the Air Force (1973–75); CEO of MITRE Corporation
- Leonidas L. Polk, American agrarian leader
- Dean Rusk, United States Secretary of State (1961–69)
- Tony Snow, White House Press Secretary (2006–07), syndicated talk radio host and Fox News Channel pundit
- Lenny McAllister, conservative activist
- James F. Entwistle, US Ambassador to Nigeria
- Stephen Salyer, President & CEO, Salzburg Global Seminar, former CEO of Public Radio International (PRI)
- John Finklea, EPA administrator
- William Winkenwerder, Jr., Defense Department official
- Buie Seawell, chief of staff to Gary Hart
- Eric Sapp, political consultant
- Yaroslav Brisiuck, Ukrainian diplomat
- Michael R. Taylor, FDA administrator
- Margaret Hoover, political commentator
Religion
- G. Thompson Brown (1921-2014), professor; founder of Honam Theological University and Seminary; missionary
- Charles Cousar, New Testament scholar, author, Professor Emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary
- Paul B. Freeland, Presbyterian minister from Louisiana, genealogist, historian, philanthropist
- Douglas Oldenburg President Emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary; moderator of the 210th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
- Holmes Rolston III, professor, theologian, philosopher; 2003 Templeton Prize recipient
- J. Rodman Williams, theologian and father of modern Renewal Theology
- Herbert Spaugh, bishop of the Moravian Church
- Francis Wilson Price, missionary
- Donald A. Crosby, philosopher
- Edward V. Ramage
Writers, journalists, and publishers
- Vereen Bell, journalist and author
- Martin Clark, author
- Patricia Cornwell, author
- William Emerson, civil rights journalist for Newsweek; editor in chief of The Saturday Evening Post; left Davidson early to serve in World War II[7]
- R. S. Gwynn, poet
- John Hart, Edgar Award-winning author
- Alamgir Hashmi, award-winning poet, scholar
- McKendree Long, artist, preacher, poet, known as "picture painter of the apocalypse"
- Jason McManus, Editor-in-Chief of Time Inc. (1988-94)
- Sheri Reynolds, author, playwright[8]
- Frank Soos, author, Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, Alaska State Writer Laureate
- William Styron, author; attended in 1942, left to join the Marines
- Charles Wright, Pulitzer Prize and Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry recipient; chancellor of The Academy of American Poets
- W. Dabney Stuart, American poet
- Rebecca Hazelton, American poet
- Hilary Masters, novelist
- Chuck Sudetic, journalist
- Robert Thornton Henderson
- Robert Olmstead
- Sarah Frances Hardy
Faculty
- Jonathan Berkey
- George Arthur Buttrick
- Alfred Mele
- William Bodiford
- Daniel Harvey Hill
- Kenneth Menkhaus
- David Kaylor
- Guy Owen (novelist)
- Douglas Glover (writer)
- Leemon McHenry
- Julio Ramirez (academic)
- Wilson Gaines Richardson
- Dorothy Allison
- John M. Bevan
- Henri Cole
- Al Young
- Frank Albinder
- Pinckney Benedict
- Terese Svoboda
- Russ Warren
- Lewis Bevens Schenck
- Patrick J. Sparrow
- Jagoda Marinić
- Elijah Frink Rockwell
- Nirmal Selvamony
Presidents of the college
Presidents of Davidson College
- Rev. Robert Hall Morrison (1836–40)
- Rev. Samuel Williamson (1841–54)
- Rev. Drury Lacy (1855–60)
- Rev. John Lycan Kirkpatrick (1860–66)
- Rev. George Wilson McPhail (1866–71)
- Prof. John Rennie Blake, Chairman (1871–77)
- Rev. Andrew Dousa Hepburn (1877–85)
- Rev. Luther McKinnon (1885–88)
- Col. William Joseph Martin, Acting (1887–88)
- Rev. John Bunyan Shearer (1888–1901)
- Dr. Henry Louis Smith (1901–12)
- Dr. William Joseph Martin, Jr. (1912–29)
- Rev. Walter Lee Lingle (1929–41)
- Dr. John Rood Cunningham (1941–57)
- Prof. Clarence John Pietenpol, Acting (1957–58)
- David Grier Martin (1958–68)
- Prof. Frontis W. Johnston, Acting (1968)
- Dr. Samuel Reid Spencer (1968–83)
- Prof. Frontis W. Johnston, Acting (1983–84)
- Dr. John Wells Kuykendall (1984–97)
- Robert F. Vagt (1997–2007)
- Thomas Warren Ross (2007–10)
- Dr. John Wells Kuykendall, Acting (2010–11)
- Dr. Carol Quillen (2011–present)
References
- ↑ Davidson College News Archives
- ↑ http://www.samueliinstitute.org/about-us/wayne-b-jonas-md
- ↑ http://www.tampabay.com/news/localgovernment/clearwater-mayoral-candidate-george-cretekos-touts-his-experience/1210703
- ↑ George Osborne MP - Profile - Conservative Party
- ↑ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2214394/The-dandy-iron-He-Madonna-fan-Oscar-Wilde-But-new-biography-reveals-George-Osborne-ALWAYS-eye-fixed-power.html
- ↑ Jake Smith, Dinner with Mobutu: A Chronicle of My Life and Times, pp. 14-16. Xlibris Corporation, 2005; ISBN 978-1413499438. Retrieved June 9, 2014.
- ↑ Applebome, Peter. "William A. Emerson Jr., Editor in Chief of Saturday Evening Post, Dies at 86", The New York Times, August 26, 2009. Accessed August 30, 2009.
- ↑ Charlotte Observer | Entertainment
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