Memoirs of a Small Town Boy is the unpublished reminiscences of Philip Harvey Davis, a professor of English at the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (later North Carolina State University). The 1984 manuscript covers his childhood in Coshocton, Ohio; undergraduate and graduate life at Miami University in ...
MoreMemoirs of a Small Town Boy is the unpublished reminiscences of Philip Harvey Davis, a professor of English at the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (later North Carolina State University). The 1984 manuscript covers his childhood in Coshocton, Ohio; undergraduate and graduate life at Miami University in Ohio, Harvard University, and the University of North Carolina in the 1920s and 1930s; work history and social life in the Depression; service in the United States Navy during World War II; social and family life in Raleigh, North Carolina, from the 1940s to the 1960s; and bird watching and nature lore in North Carolina during the same time. Philip Harvey Davis (1908-1992), a native of Ohio and graduate of Miami University, began teaching technical writing and business correspondence at North Carolina State in 1939. After serving in the United States Navy during World War II, Davis was an associate professor of English at North Carolina State from 1951 until his retirement in 1973.
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