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Descriptive Summary
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| Repository: |
Hargrett Manuscripts
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| Creator: |
Stanford, Henry King, 1916-2009
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| Title: | H.K. Stanford collection |
| Dates: | 1936-1937 |
| Quantity: |
3.0 Linear feet
10 oversized folders C, 2 flat boxes
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| Coll. Number: | ms2674 |
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Biographical/Historical Note
Henry King Stanford served as Interim President of the University of Georgia from 1986 through 1987, coming to the University’s assistance in an hour of need as it sought a new permanent President.
Dr. Stanford was born on April 22, 1916, in Atlanta, Georgia. He received his B.A. from Emory University in 1936, and a later M.A. from the same institution, as well as an M.S. from the University of Denver and his PhD from New York University.
Stanford taught at the Emory campus in Valdosta for a couple of years and went to Georgia Southwestern College in Americus in 1948 to serve as President. In 1950, Stanford was named director of the University Center in Georgia, and in 1953, he became President of the Georgia State College for Women in Milledgeville. Stanford moved to Alabama in 1957 to become President of Birmingham-Southern College and had a run-in with "Bull" Connor over the integration question before he left to accept the President's post at the University of Miami (Florida). He served there as President until his retirement in 1981 when he returned to Americus. When the Regents asked if he would serve the University of Georgia in its hour of need, the 70-year old dynamo affirmed that he would, and he served for a year as interim President at UGA. In the 20+ years following leaving that post, he remained busy with numerous speaking engagements, prolific writing, consulting and advisory work, and the odd trip to the Nepalese Himalaya to climb on the lower reaches of Mt. Everest.
Henry King Stanford, after a long, productive, and adventurous life, died on January 1, 2009.
Dr. Stanford agreed to helm the University until a permanent president could be chosen. He was chiefly responsible for stabilizing the image of the University with a restless public and with ensuring that state and private fiscal support did not erode during the period when the University was seeking a permanent President and a new direction. The Butts-Mehre Athletic Heritage Hall was completed during his tenure as President, in 1987.
Scope and Content Note
The collection consists of 14 German posters, 1 diary transcript, 1 Nazi flag-banner, and 3 playbills from performances in Heidelberg, Germany. All of these items were collected by Dr. Henry King Stanford during his studies at the University of Heidelberg between September of 1936 and July of 1937.
The accession folder for this collection also contains Stanford's narrative translations of the posters, as well as photocopies of three postcards and one Coca-Cola Nazi-era beer mat.
Arrangement
Arranged by record type.
Index Terms
Preferred Citation note
H. K. Stanford collection, ms 2674, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.
