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Finding Aid for UGA 97-085 William Tate Papers 1903-1980

Record Group: 6 (V.P.Student Affairs)
135 Boxes: 128 Cubic Feet

Collection is stored off site. Access may be delayed by retrieval time.

Contents:

Creator Note

Scope & Content

File Inventory

Creator Note

William Tate

William Tate was born in Calhoun, Georgia on September 21, 1903 and raised on a farm in Fairmount.  His father, Philip May Tate, established the marble industry in Pickens County, and was also the first President on the Calhoun National Bank. His mother, Edna Ferguson Tate, managed the farm at Fairmount following her husband’s death and served as President of the Fairmount Bank and Principal of the local high school.

As an undergraduate at the University of Georgia Tate was a champion miler, two-miler, and cross-country runner.  He was prevented by illness from running against Paavo Nurmi, the peerless Finnish distance runner who had won gold medals in the ’24 Olympics, in the Wanamaker Mile at New York’s Millrose Athletic Club.

In 1932 Tate married the granddaughter of Chancellor David Barrow, Susan Frances Barrow, and returned to the University of Georgia as Dean of Freshmen and Assistant Professor in English.  During his long UGA career Tate served as Dean of Students and Assistant to the President, before being named Dean of Men in 1946, a post he held for twenty-five years. For insight into Dean Tate's activities during the integration of the University in 1961 see accession # UGA 00-016:1-3. 


Susan Frances Tate

Susan Frances Tate was born in Athens, 
Georgia on Nov. 23, 1908 and married William Tate on June 15, 1932.  Educated at  Lucy Cobb Institute and the University of Georgia, she received an A.B. in 1930 and a M.A. in 1938.  

Mrs.  Tate was employed by the UGA Libraries from 1954 through 1969 as first a Library Assistant and then as the Assistant Special Collections Librarian with the Hargrett Rare Books & Manuscripts Library. She and Dean Tate had two children: Benjamin Barrow Tate and William Jefferson Tate.

 
Scope and  Content

The William Tate Papers are composed of both personal and administrative files from Tate’s tenure as Dean of Freshmen, Dean of Students, Assistant to the President, Dean of Men, Associate Professor of English, Dean Emeritus, and volunteer fund raiser with the UGA Alumni Society.  These papers consist of:  the personal correspondence of the immediate Tate family, relatives and friends (incoming and outgoing) for the period of 1924-1930 (5 cubic feet);  the administrative fields of the Dean Tate spanning the years 1924-1971 (33 cubic feet); and Tate’s personal reference file for the years 1925-1980 (90 cubic feet). (A more descriptive resource aid for UGA 97-085 is available through the University of Georgia Archives located in the Hargrett Rare Books & Manuscripts Library.)


Prepared by John Edwards, April, 1990/Electronic Version Prepared by
Dai Nguyen, November,  2003. Online Version: Carol Bishop, April 2004.

                                                                        
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