David S. Evans Papers 1391-2004

McDonald Observatory

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University of Texas at Austin.

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The University of Texas at Austin (UT) opened in 1883 with eight professors, four assistants, a proctor, and 221 male and female students. The first set of graduates, consisting of thirteen law students, attended UT commencement on June 14, 1884. By World War I, enrollment rose to 2,254 and by World War II to over 11,000. African Americans were admitted in 1950, and by 1966, there were 27,345 students. Over the next 40 years, the university continued to expand. In 2009 e...

Evans, David S.

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On February 1, 1954, the Michigan Council of Churches stated their position in regard to a bill pending in the Michigan Senate that would allow charity gambling. Dr. David S. Evans, Methodist minister in Okemos, Michigan (later in Battle Creek and then in Hillsdale, Michigan), became active in a drive to defeat the proposal, a drive already backed by other members of the Michigan Council of Churches. His work helped to defeat Proposal 4 on the Michigan Ballot on Nov. 2, 1954, that w...

Evans, David S. (David Stanley), 1916-2004

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Methodist minister. From the description of David S. Evans papers, 1954-1979. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34419006 Astronomer David Stanley Evans was born in Cardiff, Wales, on January 28, 1916. He obtained his bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1937 from Kings College, Cambridge, and his Ph.D. degree in 1941 from Cambridge Observatory, where he was a student of Sir Arthur Eddington. A conscientious objector to World War II, Evans spent the wa...