Floyd Field Papers
Collection
Identifier: MF045
This collection contains correspondence and a report from Floyd Field, former Georgia Tech Dean of Students and Chair of the Mathematics Department.
(one archival folder)
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The Floyd Field papers contain two letters between C. M. Sarratt and Field, written in early November 1935, discussing an altercation between Georgia Tech students and the Vanderbilt University marching band during a football game. There is also a report written by Field in 1936, entitled "Accrediting the Engineering College."
Floyd Field was born on December 19, 1873 in Salem, Oregon. He graduated from Willamette University in 1897 with an A.B. degree, and he received two degrees from Harvard University, the A.B. in 1900 and the A.M. in 1902. He began teaching as an instructor in the mathematics department at Georgia Tech in 1906, and by 1908 he had become head of the department.
Field was named Georgia Tech's first Dean of Men in 1922 and remained in that position until his retirement on June 30, 1946. At a point very close to the end of his career, his position title was changed to Dean of Students: Both the 1944-1945 Annual Report and the 1946 Blueprint refer to him as the Dean of Students. However, according to an Atlanta Journal article of June 28, 1946, Field is said to have preferred the old title of Dean of Men.
Field died on February 13, 1958, at the age of 84.
A print copy of this finding aid is available in the Georgia Tech Archives reading room.
Accessions #2001.112 and 2001.117.
(one archival folder)
Jody Lloyd Thompson described these papers in 2002.
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