George Kalb Davies ’22

George Davies died of complications following surgery in Marysville, Tenn., where he lived with Martha Burchfield, his second wife. His first wife, Winnifred Hendrickson, whom he married in 1925 and with whom he had two daughters, died in 1972. George was born in Bellefontaine, Ohio, on July 11, 1900. He prepared for Princeton at East Salt Lake City High School. His father was a Presbyterian minister and had sent his two older brothers, John A. V. '19 and Paul E. '20, to Princeton.

When George left Princeton, he intended to follow in his father's profession with two special ambitions: to become the president of a college and to establish a new church. He accomplished both and more. He received his theology degree from McCormick Theological Seminary, in Chicago, in 1925. After holding two pastorates and receiving a doctorate from the Univ. of Pittsburgh, he joined the Navy and served during WWII as a chaplain on Kwajalein, in the Marshall Islands. In 1946, he became the president of Tusculum College, in Greeneville, Tenn. (Tusculum, which was founded in 1794 by Samuel Doak 1775, is the oldest college west of the Alleghenies.) In 1950, he became the pastor of the Walnut Street Church, in Philadelphia, and later, he organized a church in Newtown Square, a nearby suburb. He retired from the ministry in 1968, remarried, and spent the rest of his life living in Florida and Tennessee and traveling. He is survived by his widow, Martha, his daughter, Alison, and five grandchildren.

The Class of 1922