Thurston J. Davies was the president of the Colorado College from 1934-1948 (Director, Navy V-12 program, 1943-1945). After graduating from Princeton University in 1916, he served in the Marines during WWI and received two Purple Hearts. After the war, Davies taught school in Baltimore, Maryland and Buffalo, New York, where he became headmaster in 1925. He was appointed president of CC in 1934. In 1943, Davies was commissioned a major in the Marine Corps and assigned to Washington, D.C. He directed the Navy V-12 college training program for Marine Corps Reserve Officers. Dean Charlie Brown Hershey became acting president of Colorado College during this period. President Davies resigned shortly after his return to the college. He went on to work with Town Hall, Inc., the Brussels World Fair, and the Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association. He died of cancer in 1961 at the age of 67.