The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-02-13
AJLLIAM h, TATE
HIS PASSED Ats -
Teacher III Peabody Vas Formerl!
Isural HchJoI Supervisor in
South Carolina.

SCUM C1EUluds
The State.
William Knox Tate, formerly State
supervisor Of elementary rural schools
in South Carolina, died early yester-
day in Nashville, where he had held
chair since May /, 1918, in George
Peabody College. for Teachers. Bruce
r. Payne, president of the college,
telegraphed to The State yesterday
morning: "It is with great sorrow
that l inform you Of the death OF Pro1.
w. x Tate" Pneumonia, which Sci
in about a week ago, was the cause
O: ~; NJ Tate is survived b!
his wife and 1ve children.
Reared i'll Arkansas.
William Knox Tate was born Sep
tember s, 1910, near Fate Springs, III
Granger county, Tennessee. His faith
er was a farmer. The earliest Amer
lean member of the family, David
; late, was ali English officer in the
french and Indian war. Mr.. rates
parents moved in his third year to
Sloan Springs, Ark. There Mr.. Tate
grew up in community remote from
railroads, on the border of what was
then the Indian territory. He was
graduated in 1891 from the Peabody
College for Teachers, Nashville. spent
the year 1S96-9S at the University or
Chica 20 and in 1900 received the mas
ter of arts degree from the UnlVer-
sity OF Nashville AS early as 1883
he was a teacher, serving two years
as principal of the schools at Siloani,
Ark. From 1892 to 1894 he was a
teacher in the high school at Tylei.
Texas. From 1894 to 1898 he was
principal Of this school. He came tc
South Carolina in 1898 and from thea
until 1910 he was principal OF the
Nemminger school in Charleston. He
served also in Charleston as assistant
superintendent of the city public
schools. From 1904 for several years
he was member of the State board
of education. In 1908 he was pres:-
dent of the State Association of City
Superintendents In 1910 he was pres
ident of the State Teachers assoc1a'
ton.
The general education board having
offered to pay the salary and expense
OF state supervisor OF elementary
rural schools in each of II Southern
States. Mr.. Tate in 1910 was appoint
ed to the position for South Carolina
He did admirable constructive WorA
IN that connection and at the SAME
time was a member of the pedagogy
cal faculty at the University of Soutl-
Carolina. He made thorough survey
of rural education, including laws,
organization, finance, equipment
teaching force and methods. On this
basis, under the direction Of the Statc
department of education, and IN coop
Grafton with other appropriate a5e..-
cies, organizations and individuals. lie
worked out adequate local pro
srammes of readjustment and in many
instances he had the pleasure Of see
ing these put into effect even during
his brief tenure of office, which 'coV-
cred the years 1904.
Mr.. Tate while a resident of Co.
lumbia published a number OF bulle
tins and pamphlets, among them the
following: "a Statement of the Rurai
School Problem in South Carolina
"Suggested Solutions for Some Rurai
School Problems in South Carolina"
and Country School Movement ana
Ideals in South Carolina"
Teacher at Peabody.
Mr.. Tate in 1914 was called to the
faculty of the George Peabody College
for Teachers at Nashville, as one OF
the experts in rural school admins
tration whom President Bruce Payne
assembled about him. He rendered
in that position distinguished service
to the cause of education in the South.
Always of great energy and endur-
ance, Mr.. Tate found time for many
activities outside the field Of his regu-
; lar employment. He was continuous
ly, from 1901 to 1913 a teacher in the
Summer School of the South at
Knoxville. He taught for several
terms in the normal department OF
Winthrop college and he held office
in number of educational associa-
tions. He was a principal promoter
of the county and State "conferences
for the common good held in South
Carolina in 1928 and which were
productive Of much benefit, partlcu'
larly as giving impetus and direction
to newly stimulated popular inter-
est in compulsory school attendance
and uniform enforcement Of the laws
Mr.. Tate was sent abroad by the
United States commissioner Of educa-
ton in the summer Of 1912 and the
result Of his investigations was a val
uah'e monograph published by the
federal bureau Of education, under the
t'tln. "Some Suggestive Features OF
thn Sw'ss School System
NJ Tate was a past chancellor In
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