SLAYDEN, THELMA THOMSON, 1907-1977

Biography:

Executive in women’s groups, writer. Born– Oct. 7, 1907, in Ashland, Ala. Parents– Thomas and Annie (Roberts) Thompson. Married– Walter Scott Slayden on June 3, 1934. Education– attended Georgia State College for Women, University of Georgia, Emory University, Columbia University, and the University of Marburg, Germany. Member executive board of Y. M. C. A.; member National League of American Pen Women, National Federation of Women’s Clubs, United Daughters of the Confederacy, and Writer’s Club; honored in 1949 for work for National Leprosy Act, and in 1952 for work for Woodmen of the World. Died December 21, 1977.

Source:

Who’s Who of American Women, 1961.

Publication(s):

Give Us This Night. New York; Arcadia House, 1939.

Make Haste, My Beloved. New York; Austin-Phelps, 1952.

Miracle in Alaska. New York; F. Fell, 1963.