Vanderbilt University is a private research university in Nashville,Tennessee. Founded in 1873,it was named in honor of shipping and rail magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt,who provided the school its initial $1-million endowment in the hopes that his gift and the greater work of the university would help to heal the sectional wounds inflicted by the Civil War. Vanderbilt is a founding member of the Southeastern Conference and has been the conference's only private school since 1966.
George Foster Peabody was an American banker and philanthropist.
James Davis Porter was an American attorney,politician,educator,and officer of the Confederate Army. He served as the 20th Governor of Tennessee from 1875 to 1879. He was subsequently appointed as Assistant Secretary of State during President Grover Cleveland's first administration,and Minister to Chile in Cleveland's second administration.
Vanderbilt Peabody College of Education and Human Development is the education school of Vanderbilt University,a private research university in Nashville,Tennessee. Founded in 1875,Peabody had a long history as an independent institution before merging with Vanderbilt University in 1979. The school is located on the Peabody Campus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville. The academic and administrative buildings surround the Peabody Esplanade and are southeast of Vanderbilt's main campus.
Presbyterian College (PC) is a private Presbyterian liberal arts college in Clinton,South Carolina.
David Richmond Gergen is an American political commentator and former presidential adviser who served during the administrations of Richard Nixon,Gerald Ford,Ronald Reagan,and Bill Clinton. He is currently a senior political analyst for CNN and a professor of public service and the founding director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. Gergen is also the former editor at large of U.S. News &World Report and a contributor to CNN.com and Parade Magazine. He has twice been a member of election coverage teams that won Peabody awards—in 1988 with MacNeil–Lehrer,and in 2008 with CNN.
University of Nashville was a private university in Nashville,Tennessee. It was established in 1806 as Cumberland College. It existed as a distinct entity until 1909;operating at various times a medical school,a four-year military college,a literary arts college,and a boys preparatory school. Educational institutions in operation today that can trace their roots to the University of Nashville include Montgomery Bell Academy,an all-male preparatory school;the Vanderbilt University Medical School;Peabody College at Vanderbilt University;and the University School of Nashville,a co-educational preparatory school.
James Geddes Stahlman was an American newspaper publisher and philanthropist. He was the publisher of the Nashville Banner. He was opposed to desegregation.
Youth for Western Civilization (YWC) was a far right student group registered as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in the United States. The group became a corporation in 2006 and began actively organizing in 2008. Kevin DeAnna founded the organization. Its honorary chairman was former Colorado US Representative Tom Tancredo.
Over 8,000 undergraduate and graduate students live in campus housing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during a regular school year. Forty residence halls are grouped into 16 residential communities across campus.
Bennett Harvie Branscomb was an American theologian and academic administrator. He served as the fourth chancellor of Vanderbilt University,a private university in Nashville,Tennessee,from 1946 to 1963. Prior to his appointment at Vanderbilt,he was the director of the Duke University Libraries and dean of the Duke Divinity School. Additionally,he served as a professor of Christian theology at Southern Methodist University. He was the author of several books about New Testament theology.
The Jean and Alexander Heard Library system is made up of several campus libraries at Vanderbilt University. These include Eskind Biomedical Library,Central Library,Divinity Library,Alyne Queener Massey Law Library,Walker Management Library,Anne Potter Wilson Music Library,Peabody Library,Sarah Shannon Stevenson Science &Engineering Library,Special Collections and University Archives,and the Television News Archive. It also houses the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news from 1968 to the present day.
Edwin Mims (1872–1959) was an American university professor of English literature. He served as the Chair of the English Department at Vanderbilt University in Nashville,Tennessee for thirty years from 1912 to 1942,and he taught many members of the Fugitives and the Southern Agrarians,two literary movements in the South. He was a staunch opponent of lynching and a practicing Methodist.
Charles Madison Sarratt (1888–1978) was an American academic and administrator. He was the co-author of a textbook on mathematics. He was the chair of the department of mathematics at Vanderbilt University from 1924 to 1946,dean of students from 1939 to 1945,vice-chancellor from 1946 to 1958,and dean of alumni from 1958 to 1978.
Herbert Charles Sanborn was an American philosopher,academic and one-time political candidate. He was the Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Psychology at Vanderbilt University in Nashville,Tennessee,from 1921 to 1942,and he served as the president of the Nashville German-American Society. He founded and coached the Vanderbilt fencing team. He ran for the Tennessee State Senate unsuccessfully in 1955. He was opposed to the Civil Rights Movement,and he published antisemitic pamphlets.
Robert A. Young (1824–1902) was an American minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church,South. A descendant of slaveholding planters,he served as a minister in many churches in Tennessee,Alabama and Missouri in the Antebellum South. He served as the President of Florence Wesleyan University (later known as the University of North Alabama in Florence,Alabama from 1861 to 1864. He supported the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War,and he did not believe in the "social equality of the Negro" after the war. He was a founding trustee of Vanderbilt University in Nashville,Tennessee.
James Vinson Carmichael was member of the Georgia General Assembly,an attorney,business executive,and candidate for Governor of Georgia.
John Hervey Wheeler was an American bank president,businessman,civil rights leader,and educator based in North Carolina. Throughout his life,Wheeler was recognized for his accomplishments by various institutions across the country. John H. Wheeler started as a bank teller at Mechanics and Farmers Bank,and worked his way up to become the bank's president in 1952. In the 1960s,Wheeler became increasingly active in United States politics,carrying several White House positions appointed by Presidents John F. Kennedy,Richard Nixon,and Lyndon B. Johnson.
John Edwin Windrow was an American educator. He became known as "Mr. Peabody" for his five-decade career at Peabody College in Nashville,Tennessee. He was a critic of Nashville's social ills and intellectual segregation.
Gilbert Ellzey Carmichael was an American businessman and politician. Born in Columbia,Mississippi,he attended Texas A&M University and served in the United States Coast Guard during the Korean War,earning a Silver Lifesaving Medal for helping rescue crewmen from a sinking tanker. In June 1950 Carmichael was hired by the Dow Jones &Company to sell its newspaper,The Wall Street Journal. After eight years,he joined a friend in distributing cars in Shreveport,Louisiana. He later became a partner in a car dealership in Meridian,Mississippi,before taking over the business. A member of the Republican Party,he became involved in politics in the 1960s,making two unsuccessful bids for a seat in the Mississippi State Legislature. Carmichael also ran for a U.S. Senate seat in 1972 and in 1975 ran for the office of Governor of Mississippi,the first serious Republican contender for the post in decades. He lost a narrow race and made another unsuccessful bid in 1979. He also launched an unsuccessful independent campaign in 1983 to be elected Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi. From the 1970s to the 1990s he served on various national transportation advisory boards. He died in 2016.
