For this Christmas Day edition of Around the D, we offer a play on “The Twelve Days of Christmas” – The Twelve Days of Davidson, collapsed into a single post:
On the first day of Christmas
Davidson College Archives & Special Collections sent to me
12 Original Houses on Patterson Court
Patterson Court, circa 1960s.
11 Seniors Graduating at the First Commencement Exercises (1840)
A young E. Constantine Davidson, one of the those eleven graduates in 1840, and the diploma of Oni Davis McNeely (Class of 1840), currently on display in the Library’s Davidsoniana Room.
10 Wins in the Undefeated 2000 Season for the Football Team
Excited Wildcat fans tear down the goalposts after the last game of the undefeated season; a few fans hang off the posts (from Quips and Cranks 2001).
Those goalposts ended up in the senior apartments, as seen in this photo from Quips and Cranks 2001 – shown here with Chris Thawley, Jeff Larrimore, Rob Neuman, and William Childs (all Class of 2004).
9 Decades of Wildcat Logos
Top row, left to right: 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.
Middle row: 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.
Bottom row: 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s.
8 Teams Left in the NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Championship when Davidson Reaches the “Elite Eight” in 2008
Davidson Men’s Basketball Team (from Quips and Cranks 2008).
Poster advertising a celebration of the 2008 basketball team, after March Madness.
7 Cemeteries Under Lake Norman (that we know of!)
Original site of Baker Cemetery.
Current site of Baker Cemetery, at Centre Presbyterian Church in Mooresville, NC.
6 Deep South Field Hockey Championships in a Row (1990 – 1995)
Team photograph of the 1990 field hockey team, the first in the run of 6 championships (from Quips and Cranks 1991).
1995 field hockey team, the last in the conference title run (from Quips and Cranks 1996; Davidson’s field hockey team currently plays in the NorPac conference, not Deep South)
5 Years of “Ghosts in the Library”
Posters from the first three years of Ghosts in the Library (2009 – 2011)
Posters from Ghosts in the Library, 2012 and 2013.
4 College Library Directors
From top, left to right: Cornelia Rebekah Shaw, 1907 – 1936; Chalmers Gaston Davidson (Class of 1928), 1936 – 1975; Leland M. Park (Class of 1963), 1975 – 2006; and Gillian Gremmels, 2007 – present.
3 Students Taking One of the Earliest X-Rays (1896)
Eben Hardin, Pender Porter, and Osmond L. Barringer snuck into Dr. Henry Louis Smith’s lab to X-Ray: a cadaver finger wearing a ring and stuck with two pins; magnifying glass; a pill box containing two 22 cartridges, one pin, two rings, and six Strychnine pills; and an empty egg with a button inside.
Original Chambers Building (1860 – 1921), before the fire of November 28, 1921.
New Chambers Building, completed in 1929.
and the First Woman President at Davidson College
Dr. Quillen receives the College mace (photograph from the Davidsonian).
Happy Holidays (and a merry winter break) from Davidson College’s Archives & Special Collections!
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