Family Album: The More We Get Together
![black and white photo of construction machine tearing down walls of former Johnston Gymnasium](/sites/default/files/styles/small_16x9/public/2022-01/JohnsonGymnasium.png.jpg?itok=kA8uMS0v)
It's a humming hive of activity on campus—a gathering place for celebration and reflection, a place to kick back with friends or study for exams, and a place to enrich our lives through lectures by thought leaders and performances by renowned artists.
The Knobloch Campus Center, which includes the Alvarez College Union and Duke Family Performance Hall, emerged out of a major renovation of the Johnston Gymnasium two decades ago this year. The college community celebrated the milestone on a beautiful fall day with guest speakers, musical performances and, of course, cake.
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Read "The More We Get Together: Knobloch Campus Center Turns 20"
20th Anniversary Celebration
The college celebrated the Knobloch Campus Center's 20th anniversary with food, live music and fun, capturing the spirit of togetherness and community the center has embodied for two decades.
![20th Anniversary Celebration of the Alvarez College Union November 2021](/sites/default/files/styles/small_4x3/public/2021-11/20th_Anniversary_Alvarez_College_Union_002.jpg?h=c7cc1c4e&itok=lfcopFTq)
![20th Anniversary Celebration of the Alvarez College Union November 2021](/sites/default/files/styles/small_4x3/public/2021-11/20th_Anniversary_Alvarez_College_Union_008.jpg?h=52d167ab&itok=-DPHgCYH)
![20th Anniversary Celebration of the Alvarez College Union Thank you Note](/sites/default/files/styles/small_4x3/public/2021-11/20th_Anniversary_Alvarez_College_Union_004.jpg?h=425cd2c1&itok=wZidIZYl)
![20th Anniversary Celebration of the Alvarez College Union November 2021](/sites/default/files/styles/small_4x3/public/2021-11/20th_Anniversary_Alvarez_College_Union_005.jpg?h=52d167ab&itok=bs7h_khq)
![20th Anniversary Celebration of the Alvarez College Union November 2021](/sites/default/files/styles/small_4x3/public/2021-11/20th_Anniversary_Alvarez_College_Union_019.jpg?h=52d167ab&itok=KE6ShNLY)
![Eating Food at the 20th Anniversary Celebration of the Alvarez College Union November 2021](/sites/default/files/styles/small_4x3/public/2021-11/20th_Anniversary_Alvarez_College_Union_010.jpg?h=52d167ab&itok=MafimZOS)
![Two students sign thank you note at the 20th anniversary celebration](/sites/default/files/styles/small_4x3/public/2022-01/20th_Anniversary_Alvarez_College_Union_013_1.jpg?h=a141e9ea&itok=E-5_aGgX)
![Alvarez Union Director Mike Goode speaks to students watching at 20th anniversary celebration](/sites/default/files/styles/small_4x3/public/2022-01/20th_Anniversary_Alvarez_College_Union_018.jpg?h=d8dd61f0&itok=FllKUdOX)
![5-tiered desserts tray of cream-filled puffs at 20th anniversary celebration](/sites/default/files/styles/small_4x3/public/2022-01/20th_Anniversary_Alvarez_College_Union_006.jpg?h=5d6d9725&itok=tnmChzey)
![crowd of people in Alvarez College Union for 20th anniversary celebration](/sites/default/files/styles/small_4x3/public/2022-01/20th_Anniversary_Alvarez_College_Union_016.jpg?h=52d167ab&itok=-4ap81FF)
![desserts tray of chocolate-doused fruits at 20th anniversary celebration](/sites/default/files/styles/small_4x3/public/2022-01/20th_Anniversary_Alvarez_College_Union_009.jpg?h=52d167ab&itok=1bK_Aujr)
![crowd of students and staff listen to President Carol Quillen speak at celebration](/sites/default/files/styles/small_4x3/public/2022-01/20th_Anniversary_Alvarez_College_Union_025.jpg?h=52d167ab&itok=_cX6Bswz)
![A thank you note that reads "Thank you to students who play the piano even when they are practicing their chords or just working out some musical challenges."](/sites/default/files/styles/small_4x3/public/2022-01/20th_Anniversary_Alvarez_College_Union_011.jpg?h=52d167ab&itok=DZL8cC1n)
![decorations, including college flags and balloons, for the celebration](/sites/default/files/styles/small_4x3/public/2022-01/20th_Anniversary_Alvarez_College_Union_020.jpg?h=a141e9ea&itok=3ykW0fv2)
Spring/Summer 2021 Family Album
Leighton B. McKeithen III '75 wrote in response to the spring/summer 2021 Family Album photo with some valuable information for the archives: "The gentlemen were not students in the 1920s but rather the prior decade. The young man on the left in the photo is my grandfather, Leighton B. McKeithen Sr., who graduated in the class of 1919." Thank you, Leighton!
Spring/Summer 2021 Family Album: Dressed for Success
This article was originally published in the Fall/Winter 2021 print issue of the Davidson Journal Magazine; for more, please see the Davidson Journal section of our website.
Published
- January 3, 2022