Tate, Harold Simmons, 1903-1982.

Harold Simmons Tate (1903-1982) was a professor of Industrial Education at Clemson College from 1925 until 1941; in the years following World War II (1945 to 1953), Tate used his knowledge of textile production to advise foreign governments (Japan, China, the Philippines, and Greece) on various issues related to the textile industry. When his responsibilities ended in the fall of 1953, he returned to the United States and accepted a position at Fort Benning, Georgia, as educational advisor to the commandant of the U.S. Army Infantry School. That job combined his knowledge of educational theory with his extensive military experience and led to a productive fifteen years during which he wrote and revised the Infantry School's curriculum, embraced new technology for training including the use of television, and directed special studies of many components of the army's training procedures. Upon his retirement in 1968, he and his wife Cleone relocated to Columbia, S.C.