The College Archives is joining with the Black Student Coalition to acknowledge and promote Black History Month. I’ll be giving a presentation called Always Part of the Fabric: A Look at Davidson College’s Black History on Tuesday, February 9th and am using some of it for this week’s blog.
Thank you Miss Finlayson
For any college, the most important records–legally and historically– are the Board of Trustee Minutes. Davidson is no exception. We are fortunate to have a complete set of trustee minutes. Kept in hefty ledger books, the minutes document the life of the college in handwriting of varying degrees of decipherability. As archivist, I am deeply grateful to Dorothy McQueen Finlayson Cunningham for carefully transcribing all the minutes from June 1, 1836 to May 30, 1936, all 1864 pages of them!