Robert Manning Strozier Speeches and Addresses

Collection

Identifier: HPUA 2001-012

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of speeches and addresses written by Dr. Strozier while employed as the Dean of Students at the University of Chicago and as the President of Florida State University. Also this collection contains memorabilia from Dr. Strozier's Inauguration ceremony at Florida State University.

Dates

Created: 1947-1960

Creator

Strozier, Robert Manning, 1906-1960 (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open to all researchers.

Conditions Governing Use

To request permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from the archives, please contact Heritage & University Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. Researchers must obtain separate permission from the copyright holders of material held within University Archives collections for which the institution does not hold copyright.

Biographical or Historical Information

Robert Manning Strozier was born July 20, 1906, in McRae, Georgia. He lived at various times in McRae, Vienna and Moultrie, and then went to Atlanta where he received a bachelor's and a master's degree from Emory University. In 1930, as a teacher of French, he began his educational career on the faculty of Georgia College for Men at Tifton. Later he served on the faculties of West Georgia College and the University of Georgia. His postgraduate work was continued at the University of Chicago, where he was awarded a Ph.D. degree in 1945, and at the Sorbonne, where he later returned to make a series of lectures. While studying at Chicago he met and married Margaret Burnett in 1936. Dr. and Mrs. Strozier were the parents of three children. Strozier became president of Florida State University (FSU) in September, 1957, after 28 years of college teaching and administration in three Georgia institutions. He was also dean of students and professor or romance languages at the University of Chicago.

Soon after coming to FSU, Strozier announced this ambition: "We shall make Florida State a great University." Faculty, students, and friends of the university witnessed one after another, the steps taken toward this goal during his two and one-half years at FSU. While in Chicago for a speaking engagement, Dr. Strozier suffered a heart attack and died on April 20, 1960.