Background
Willis M. Tate was born in Denver, Colorado.
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Willis Tate
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Education
Southern Methodist University.
Career
He received a Bachelor of Arts and an Master of Arts from Southern Methodist University. He worked as a school principal in San Antonio, Texas, and returned to Southern Methodist to work as Assistant Dean of Students in 1945 and Professor of sociology. He served as its President from 1954 to 1975, with a one-year hiatus in 1974.
He died of a heart attack in Colorado in 1989.
He served as Chairman of the Independent College Funds of America and President of the National Association of Schools and Colleges of the Methodist Church.
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Membership
He was also a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity and Cycen Fjodr.
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Died
1989 (aged 77)