Philomene Gates Papers, 1989-2001, 1999-2000

Gates, Philomene A., 1918-

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Dodd, William George, 1874-1963

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Rogers, William Hudson, 1894-1975

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Created by Philomene A. Gates

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Born March 19, 1918, Philomene Asher Gates grew up in Orlando (FL). Since her family could no longer afford the tuition to the Cathedral School for girls, a private Episcopal boarding/day school, she enrolled at the age of 12-1/2 in the Orlando Senior Public High School. From 1934 to 1938, when she received her B.S. degree, she attended Florida State College for Women (FSCW, now Florida State University). In a chapter of her autobiography A Soft Rebel Yell: From Grits to...