George T. Winston

George T. Winston

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name = George Tayloe Winston


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birth_place = Windsor, North Carolina
death_date = death date|1932|08|26
death_place = Durham, North Carolina
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nationality = American
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known_for = 7th President of the University of North Carolina
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alma_mater = University of North Carolina United States Naval Academy Cornell University
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term = 1891-1896
predecessor = Kemp Plummer Battle
successor = Edwin Anderson Alderman
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George Tayloe Winston (October 12, 1852 – August 26, 1932), an American teacher and president of three public universities, was born on October 12, 1852, at Windsor, North Carolina, the son of Patrick Henry and Martha Elizabeth (Byrd) Winston, and the brother of Francis D. Winston. He attended the University of North Carolina from 1866 to 1868, where he was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity. He then studied at the United States Naval Academy from 1868 to 1870, standing at the head of his class of seventy. He could not overcome violent nausea at sea and resigned. In 1870 he went to Cornell University, where he received a Bachelor's of Literature degree in 1874 and won membership in Phi Beta Kappa. Later honorary degrees included an A.M. from Davidson College in 1877 and LL.D. degrees from Duke University, and the University of North Carolina in 1911. He was married on June 5, 1876, to Caroline S. Taylor of Hinsdale, New Hampshire; they became parents of four children.

University of North Carolina presidency

When the University of North Carolina was reopened after the Civil War, Winston, although only twenty-three years old, was elected adjunct professor of Latin and German. Promoted to professor the next year, he taught Latin and German and served as secretary of the faculty until 1891, when he was elected president of the university at the age of thirty-nine. He went to work with great energy and ability to make the state conscious of the university. He had a difficult task for North Carolina was still miserably poor from the effects of the war, but in five years the university's income was doubled, and its enrollment was almost tripled.

University of Texas presidency

Winston was invited to deliver the commencement address at the University of Texas at Austin in June 1896. Discussing the influence of universities and public schools on national life and character, he spoke so effectively that the board of regents shortly elected him the university's first regular president. Leslie Waggener had been president ad interim. Winston entered on his work in Texas with the same vigor that he had shown in North Carolina. He made speeches, wrote articles, attended conventions, and labored with all classes of people to make them look upon the university as their own. The curriculum was revised, able instructors were brought to the faculty, the University Record was inaugurated, B. Hall and the Main Building were enlarged, but Winston was unhappy over slowness in improvements and accepted the presidency of the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in 1899.

North Carolina State University presidency and later life

He was successful at NC A&M, but poor health led him to accept a Carnegie Pension and retire in 1908. He died in Durham, North Carolina, on August 26, 1932. Winston received many honors, among them the presidency of the Association of Southern Colleges and Secondary Schools in 1895. His publications included numerous reports, addresses, and articles, and one book, "Daniel Augustus Tompkins, a Builder of the New South" (1920).

Winston Hall on the campus of North Carolina State University is named in his honor. The building originally housed engineering, but is now a humanities facility.

References

* [http://museum.unc.edu/get_page.html?chapter=7&slide=7 Virtual Museum of UNC History]
* [http://www.utexas.edu/faculty/council/2000-2001/memorials/AMR/Winston/winston.html University of Texas]
* [http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/exhibits/chancellors/winston.html NC State University]


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