Gavin Harrison Yates [1] was Anglican Dean of Nelson from 1970 [2] until 1981.
Yates was educated at the University of Canterbury and ordained in 1962. His first post was a curacy at Saint Paul's Cathedral, Wellington. He was Assistant Director of the Diocese of Wellington’s Christian Education Council then Vicar of Westport before his appointment as Dean. Yates was also interim Dean of Dunedin during 2008. [3]
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Philip Yates Coleman was a middle- and long-distance runner from the United States. He was born in Champaign, Illinois. He won the gold medal in the men's 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 1959 Pan American Games. Coleman attended Southern Illinois University (1948 - 1952, spent two years in the Army and becoming inter service steeplechase champion. He attended graduate school at the University of Illinois, meanwhile competing for The University of Chicago Track Club. He was a member of the 1956 and 1960 Olympic teams. He retired from running in 1960, wrote an article for Sports Illustrated “Idea of an Amateur, 1962, for which he was awarded the Mohammed Taher trophy by the International Olympic committee. With his thesis, “Mark Twain’s Desperate Naturalism” completed, he received a PhD in Literature in 1964. He taught literature and served as dean at California University of Pennsylvania, retiring in 1998.
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