F. Trubee Davison Chair in History

 
The F. Trubee Davison Chair in History was established by three generations of the Davison Family to bear witness to the life of public service and a lifelong interest in history, especially American history, of Mr. F. Trubee Davison 1914. Since 2023, Ryan Spring has held this chair.

Ryan Spring joined the Groton faculty in 2013. His experience in independent boarding schools began as a student at Phillips Academy, Andover. After Andover, he completed his undergraduate studies at Bates College, earning a BA in American Cultural Studies and Russian History. Ryan later earned an MA in history at the George Washington University.
 
Since arriving on the Circle, Ryan has taught U.S. History, World and the West, and a series of electives on 20th-century Russia. He has also led a Third Form girls’ dormitory and coached girls’ varsity soccer and thirds basketball. The girls’ soccer team won the NEPSAC Class B championship in 2014 and reached the semifinals in 2013 and 2015. In 2014. Ryan was awarded the Jonathan Choate Award for Excellence in Teaching and Coaching.
 
Before working at Groton, Ryan spent fifteen years teaching, coaching, and advising at Blair Academy, in Blairstown, NJ. He lives on campus with his wife, Stacey, a doctoral student in political science at Boston University and also a member of Groton’s History Department, and their two children, Owen and Eleanor (Elly).
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