Bio – Davis, Sidney Thomas

Portrait by Bidwell

Born: June 30, 1910 (Puden, Tennessee)

Died: December 28, 1997


Education:

    • A.B. West Virginia Wesleyan College (1936)
    • S.T.B. Boston University
    • Ed.M. University of Pittsburgh

Served

    • Associate Professor of Rural Church Work
    • Director of Religious Activities 1951-52
    • Chaplain 1954-71


Taught :

    • Assistant Professor of Religious Education 1947-1954
    • Associate Professor of Religious Education 1955-1957
    • Associate Professor of Religion and Religious Education 1957-1959
    • Professor of Religion and Religious Education 1959-1976
    • Professor of Religion and Christian Education, Emeritus 1976-1997
    • Dean of Southwest Florida Program 1984-86


Notes:

  • Leave of Absence 1969. The Fall 1970 Sundial says, “He and Mrs. Davis circled the globe with stops for some time in India and Iran and finally for several months in Beirut, Lebanon, where he taught at the Haigazian College and she taught at Beirut College for Women. Dr. Davis made a study of minority religions in Iran.”
  • Wrote the Litany of Commission used in the West Virginia Weleyan College Baccalaureate Service


Sources:

    • Catalogs
    • Murmurmontis
    • Pharos
    • Sundial (Fall 1970)

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