William S. Vaughn

[1][2] William, his parents, and his two brothers, Charles and Houghton, lived on 24th Avenue, a few street away from his paternal grandfather's home.

[1] He was educated at the Robertson Academy, where he skipped the eighth grade, and at the Hume-Fogg High School in Nashville.

[1] He went on to graduate from Vanderbilt University in 1923, where he studied German and Mathematics and he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa society and Class Poet.

[1] He was then a Rhodes scholar at the Christ Church, a constituent college of the University of Oxford, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics.

[2][3] Additionally, he served on the Boards of Directors of TRW Inc., Procter & Gamble and the Lincoln First Bank.

[2] A supporter of Civil Rights for African-Americans, he sat on the National Council of the United Negro College Fund and he was a member of the Rochester chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).