A. Hawthorne Davidson ’37

TEX DAVIDSON, born in Dallas, theological scholar and exMarine, died Nov. 9, 1990, at home in Laurens, S.C., of heart failure. He left his widow, Eleanor, one son, and three daughters, and just missed the advent of his first grandchild, Joseph Thompson Davidson.

Tex came to Princeton from Boys' Latin in Dallas, where he featured football, fencing, and lacrosse and graduated magna cum laude. At Princeton he majored in history, won the George Potts Bible Prize, and was on the freshman fencing and lacrosse teams, and was president of the League of Evangelical Students. Thereafter he studied at the Dallas Theological Seminary and in 1941 graduated from the Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Ga., becoming pastor of the Florida Street Presbyterian Church of Baton Rouge, La. Then came a stint In the Navy as Chaplain, attached to the Marines in the Asiatic Pacific and Okinawa. Separation came in the summer of 1946, as a lieutenant.

Next came graduate work in biblical theology and theology at Edinburgh, Scotland; Vanderbilt University; and Union Theological Seminary in Virginia. Meanwhile, in 194951, he served as pastor of two Presbyterian churches in Hart County, Ga. Theological study and writing continued and parttime farming, and, later, teaching English and history at Baltimore Polytechnic Inst., before retiring in 1979 to plantation country in Georgetown, S.C. He married Eleanor in 1950, producing a son, three daughters, and one grandson. our deepest sympathies go to Eleanor and the children.

The Class of 1937