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Clyde Partin, Sr.

Clyde Partin Sr. is the author, most recently, of Athletics for All, a comprehensive look at Emory University's long and distinguished athletic history. Drawing on archival photos and Partin's six decades at Emory, the coffee-table book is due out in the fall of 2006—in time for football season, which does not occupy the attention of Emory sports fans. Partin's wry humor and encyclopedic knowledge of athletics at Emory come from hard-won experience. Arriving on the campus as an undergraduate in 1946, after service in the U.S. Navy during World War II, Partin earned two degrees from Emory and then made a career of coaching and serving as professor and chair of physical education. (He also earned a doctoral degree from George Peabody College.) "Doc" Partin, as he is known affectionately around Emory, retired in 2002. He is the author of numerous biographical sketches of baseball Hall of Famers, from Honus Wagner and Babe Ruth to Frank Robinson, Roy Campanella, and many others. His countless contributions in the field of physical education, health, recreation, and dance have earned him dozens of honors, including the naming of two awards for him.