Warnick, Kate, 1896-1993

Marion Kate Cullom was born in Garland, Texas, the daughter of Dora Sewell Cullom and newspaperman John H. Cullom. As a young adult, Kate studied music at Southern Methodist University. She began working in the SMU library under the direction of Dorothy Amann in the fall of 1918. On May 20, 1920, she married John Warnick, an Army Air Corps veteran of World War I.

Kate Warnick served as Librarian of the SMU School of Theology from 1924 until 1949 and as Reference and Methodist Historical Librarian for Perkins School of Theology from 1950 to 1979. Her scholarship contributed to the production of Golden Prologue to the Future: A History of the Highland Park Methodist Church (1966) and Encyclopedia of World Methodism (1974). Kate Warnick was a member of the American Library Association, American Theological Library Association, and Southwestern Society of Biblical Research. She served one term as President of the Methodist Librarians Fellowship (1963-64) and several years as Librarian-Historian of the South Central Jurisdictional Association of Methodist Historical Societies.

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