Steadman V. Sanford papers

Steadman V. Sanford papers

Descriptive Summary

Title: Steadman V. Sanford papers
Creator: Sanford, Steadman Vincent, 1871-1945
Inclusive Dates: 1918-1945
Language(s): English
Extent: 4 Linear Feet (4 boxes)
Collection Number: UA97-097
Repository: University of Georgia Archives

Collection Description

Biographical/historical note

Steadman Vincent Sanford was born in Covington, Georgia on August 24, 1871 to Charles Vincent and Lizzie (Steadman) Sanford. He was a graduate of Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, receiving his Bachelor of Arts from that institution in 1890. In 1912-1913, he continued his studies at the University of Berlin, and in the summer of 1913, at Oxford in England. He received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from the University of Georgia in 1914. Dr. Sanford's professional career began at Marietta (GA) Male Academy, where he served as President from 1890 until 1892. This was followed with five years of service (1892-1897) as Principal at Marietta High School, which in turn was followed by six years as Superintendent of Schools in Marietta. In 1903, Dr. Sanford joined the faculty of the University of Georgia as an Instructor in Rhetoric and English Literature. The next decade saw his steady rise through the academic ranks, and in 1913, Dr. Sanford assumed the Chair of the English Department as Full Professor. In 1921, he also assumed the duties as the first head of the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism (a school which Sanford was instrumental in creating) at the University, and this administrative position led to his appointment as Dean of the University in 1927, a position he held until 1932. That year, Sanford became the President of the University of Georgia, a position he would only briefly occupy before being called to serve the state as Chancellor of the State University System in 1935. Independent of his rich academic career, Sanford served as a Captain of a company of Volunteer Infantry in the Spanish-American War, and served on the staff of three Georgia Governors: Brown, Harris, and Slayton. He was a member of the Kappa Alpha social fraternity, a Mason, and a member of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias, and he served as President of the Georgia Education Association in 1935. In his tenure as President at the University of Georgia, Dawson Hall and Joe E. Brown Hall were completed (both in 1932), and his leading role in affiliating the University with the Southern Collegiate Athletic Association (which he again helped organize) would lead to the naming of the University's football stadium in his honor in 1929. The conversion from an old Trustees form of governance to a new statewide Regents' System for all the State Colleges and Universities brought Dr. Sanford into sharp conflict with the President of the State College of Agriculture (in Athens), Dr. Andrew Soule. Ultimately, Dr. Sanford's point of view prevailed, giving birth to the modern Regents System in Georgia. During a presentation to the State Board of Regents on September 12, 1945, Chancellor Sanford suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, and he died three days later at the age of 74. He is buried at the City Cemetery in Marietta.

Scope and Content

The Presidential papers (1918-1945) of Steadman V. Sanford housed in the University of Georgia Archives represent a small volume of the S. V. Sanford papers total. The bulk of the papers can be found in the Manuscripts Division of the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library (MS 1578). The papers chronicle Dr. Sanford's involvement with the organization and growth of the Southern Athletic Conference, and with collegiate athletics as manifested at the University of Georgia and regionally in the Southeast; document Dr. Sanford's role in reorganizing higher education in the State of Georgia and the installation of a statewide Board of Regents in 1932; document Sanford's tenure as Chancellor of the Board of Regents, as well as his interactions as University President; highlight Dr. Sanford's work in standardizing high school curricula in Georgia; and document the Religious Welfare Conference: Religious life at the University of Georgia in the 1930s.

Organization and Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically.


Administrative Information

Preferred citation

Steadman V. Sanford papers, UA97-097, University Archives, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

General Notes

RG 1


Related Materials and Subjects

Subject Terms


Series Descriptions and Folder Listing

 
boxfolder
11Accreditation, 1931-1935
 
12Admissions, 1930-1934
 
13Alumni Affairs, 1932-1934
 
14Anti-Lynching Bill, 1934
 
15Appointments, 1931-1934
 
16Association of American Colleges, 1933-1934
 
17Athletic Eligibility Certificates-Southern Conference, 1927 September
 
18Athletic Eligibility Certificates-Southern Conference, 1928 September
 
19Athletic Eligibility Certificates-Southern Conference, 1928 October
 
110Athletic Eligibility Certificates-Southern Conference, 1928 December
 
111Athletic Eligibility Certificates-Southern Conference, 1929 January
 
112Athletic Eligibility Certificates-Southern Conference, 1929 February
 
113Athletic Eligibility Certificates-Southern Conference, 1929 March
 
114Athletic Eligibility Certificates-Southern Conference, 1929 April
 
115Athletic Eligibility Certificates-Southern Conference, 1929 September
 
116Athletic Eligibility Certificates-Southern Conference, 1929 September
 
117Athletic Eligibility Certificates-Southern Conference, 1929 September
 
118Athletic Eligibility Certificates-Southern Conference, 1929 September
 
119Athletic Eligibility Certificates-Southern Conference, 1929 September
 
120Athletic Eligibility Certificates-Southern Conference, 1929 October
 
121Athletic Eligibility Certificates-Southern Conference, 1929 October
 
122Athletic Eligibility Certificates-Southern Conference, 1929 November
 
123Athletic Eligibility Certificates-Southern Conference, 1930 April-May
 
124Athletics-football, 1929-1935
 
125Athletics-memorandum to Georgia athletes
 
126Athens-relations, 1933-1934
 
127Board of Regents-Adult and Nursing Education, 1933-1934
 
128Board of Regents-budget/fiscal papers, 1932-1933
 
129Board of Regents-budget, 1933-1935
 
130Board of Regents-building projects, 1932-1935
 
131Board of Regents-correspondence, miscellaneous, 1931-1935
 
132Board of Regents-correspondence, personal, 1931-1935
 
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21Board of Regents-correspondence, presidential, 1932-1933
 
22Board of Regents-correspondence, presidential, 1905 April 16
 
23Board of Regents-correspondence, presidential, 1934
 
24Board of Regents-correspondence, presidential, 1934-1935
 
25Board of Regents-employment, 1933-1934
 
26Board of Regents-homesteads, 1933-1934
 
27Board of Regents-honorary degrees, 1933-1934
 
28Board of Regents-Lanning, J.T. (book), 1932-1935
 
29Board of Regents-meetings/minutes, 1932-1935
 
210Board of Regents-purchases/bids, 1932-1934
 
211Board of Regents-real estate, 1933
 
212Board of Regents-reorganization, 1932-1935
 
213Board of Regents-rules and regulations, 1932-1933
 
214Board of Regents-Summer School, 1932-1935
 
215Caldwell, Harmon W., papers-Board of Regents, 1935-1936
 
216Caldwell, Harmon W., papers-Committee on the Small High School, 1935-1937
 
217Caldwell, Harmon W., papers-Dempsey, T. Jack, correspondence, 1935-1937
 
218Caldwell, Harmon W., Papers-Presidential correspondence, 1935-1937
 
219Campus development, 1932-1935
 
220Code of Fair Competition, 1933-1934
 
221College of Agriculture, 1933-1934
 
222Commencement, 1933-1936
 
223Committee on Educational Testing, 1933-1934
 
224Complaints, 1930-1931
 
225Conferences-miscellaneous, 1933-1935
 
226Coordinate College, 1933
 
227Correspondence: Dempsey, T. Jack-Georgia high schools, 1934-1936
 
228Correspondence: government, 1931-1933
 
229Correspondence: miscellaneous, 1932-1935
 
230Correspondence: personal, 1918-1935
 
231Correspondence: personal (sales tax), 1932-1933
 
232Correspondence: poor scholastic record, 1930-1932
 
233Correspondence: Presidential, 1930-1933
 
234Correspondence: Presidential, 1933 May-September
 
235Correspondence: Presidential, 1933 October-December
 
236Correspondence: Presidential, 1934 January-February
 
237Correspondence: Presidential, 1934 March-May
 
238Correspondence: Presidential, 1934 June-September
 
239Correspondence: Presidential, 1934 October-December
 
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31Correspondence: Presidential, 1935 January-June
 
32Correspondence: Snelling, Charles M., 1932-1934
 
33Correspondence: Talmadge, Eugene, 1932-1935
 
34Correspondence: Thank You notes, 1931-1934
 
35Credits, 1926-1933
 
36Daughters of the Confederacy, 1933
 
37Democratic Party, 1932
 
38DeRenne Library, 1933-1934
 
39Discipline, 1931-1934
 
310Education of World War orphans, 1934
 
311Educational Conference, 1934
 
312Educational Conference, 1935
 
313Employment, 1932-1935
 
314English composition notebook
 
315Faculty, 1933-1934
 
316Faculty salaries/departmental budgets, 1934
 
317Favors asked, 1932-1934
 
318Financial aid, 1930-1933
 
319Financial aid, 1934
 
320Foreign Affairs, 1932-1934
 
321Georgia Commission on High School Standards: Bulletin, 1935-1936
 
322Georgia High School Accrediting Commission, 1934
 
323Georgia High School Association, 1934-1935
 
324Georgia high school material, miscellaneous, 1933-1934
 
325Gifts/Donations, 1928-1934
 
326Hirsch Hall Dedication, 1932
 
327Homesteads, 1933-1934
 
328Honorary degrees, 1933-1934
 
329Housing, 1933-1934
 
330Incidents, 1921-1935
 
331Integration, 1934
 
332Invitation list, 1935
 
333Invitations (dinner), 1935 January
 
334Invitations (dinner), 1935 January
 
335Invitations (dinner), 1935 April
 
336Invitations (regrets), 1931-1935
 
337Items for sale or donation to University of Georgia, 1931-1934
 
338Latch Key Constitution
 
339Letters of Recommendation, 1929-1934
 
340Letters of Solicitation, 1933-1934
 
341Military course, 1933
 
342Miscellaneous materials, 1933-1935
 
343Money owed/paid, 1932-1934
 
344National Education Association, 1933-1934
 
345National Education Association: Conference, 1934
 
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41Organizations (miscellaneous), 1933-1935
 
42Pandora (gifts), 1933-1934
 
43PhD programs, 1933-1935
 
44Race Relations/Blacks in Georgia, 1932-1935
 
45Real Estate, 1933-1934
 
46Religious Welfare Conference, 1932
 
47Religious Welfare Conference, 1933
 
48Religious Welfare Conference, 1934 January-March
 
49Religious Welfare Conference, 1934 March-April
 
410Religious Welfare Conference, 1935
 
411Religious Welfare Conference: miscellaneous
 
412Reorganization, 1933-1934
 
413Report of the Committee on Examinations and Classification
 
414Requests-help, 1926-1935
 
415Requests for information-general, 1930-1932
 
416Requests for information-general, 1933
 
417Requests for information-general, 1934 January-August
 
418Requests for information-general, 1934 September-December
 
419Requests for Permission, 1929-1934
 
420Request for help, letter: Sister Annie and the Untouchables of Malabar, 1932
 
421Residency, 1933-1934
 
422Solicitations and promotional information, 1932-1934
 
423The Southern Negro
 
424Spanish Archives, 1934
 
425Speakers, 1929-1934
 
426Speeches, 1925-45
 
427State High School Meeting, 1930-34
 
428Summary of Questionnaire on Co-Operative Living, 1934
 
429Summer School, 1932-36
 
430Summer School, 1933-34
 
431Teacher Training in Nursery and Adult Education, 1933-34
 
432Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933
 
433True Economics, 1933
 
434Veterans' Administration, beneficiaries, 1932-1933
 
435Wellhouse (Louis) Memorial Fund, 1934
 
436Withdrawals, 1933-1934
 
437Women's' Club (University), 1934

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