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Remembering pioneering educator Louise Nelson

Posted on November 22nd, 2008 by David Boraks
Dr. Nelson

Dr. Nelson

Davidson College professor emerita of economics C. Louise Nelson passed away Thursday. Our neighbor and Davidson College director of Media Relations Bill Giduz recaps her outstanding career and contributions in an appreciation on the college website. He calls Dr. Nelson “a pioneer,” not only in the academic world, where she was Davidson’s first woman full professor, but also nationwide in the fields of banking and economics. She was known for a “genteel conversational nature, quest for knowledge and concern for problems that plague the world,” Mr. Giduz writes. Read the full article, CLICK HERE>

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