William Oscar Payne

William Oscar Payne (January 10, 1879 – March 24, 1944) was a longtime professor of history at the University of Georgia. He served as athletic director at Georgia from 1936 to 1943.

Early life and education

Payne was born in Carnesville, Georgia in 1879. He attended the University of Georgia where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1900 and a Master of Arts in 1902. While attending Georgia, he was the captain of the baseball team. He was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. He also studied at the University of Chicago, Columbia University and Harvard University.

Career

After his graduation in 1902, Payne became an assistant in the history department at the University of Georgia. In 1908, he became an assistant professor of history Georgia and was promoted to professor in 1919. Payne was the faculty chairman of athletics for Georgia from 1934 until 1943. In 1936, he succeeded Herman Stegeman as athletic director at the University of Georgia. He served in this capacity at his alma mater until 1943. From 1911 until his death, Payne served the Delta chapter of Sigma Chi as faculty advisor.

Honors

Payne Hall at the University of Georgia is named in his honor.[1]

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gollark: Regardless of what's actually happening with news, you can probably dredge up a decent amount of examples of people complaining about being too censored *and* the other way round.
gollark: With the butterfly-weather-control example that's derived from, you can't actually track every butterfly and simulate the air movements resulting from this (yet, with current technology and algorithms), but you can just assume some amount of random noise (from that and other sources) which make predictions about the weather unreliable over large time intervals.
gollark: That seems nitpicky, the small stuff is still *mostly* irrelevant because you can lump it together or treat it as noise.
gollark: Why are you invoking the butterfly effect here?

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