Biography:

Professor of education; pastor. Born–November 4, 1893. Parents–John Thomas and Mary J. Anderson Beck. Married–Eva Bergdoll.   Children–one.  Education– Southern Methodist University, B.A., B.D.; University of Chicago, M.A. Served as a pastor in Dallas, Texas.  Specialist in the teaching of social studies; demonstration teacher in the training school at Lee County High School; supervisor of practice teachers in the School of Education at Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1928-1941.  Owner of Beck’s Nursery Turf Company.  Died October 1982.

Source:

Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History and Auburn University Libraries.

Publication(s):

American Civilization. Auburn, Ala.; Prather Publishing Co., 1930.

American Life, Yesterday and Today. Auburn, Ala.; Prather Publishing Co., 1934.

Our American Heritage. Auburn, Ala.; Prather Publishing Co., 1941.

Our Life Together; Civics Guide. Auburn, Ala.; Prather Publishing Co., 1933.

Story of the Old World. Auburn, Ala.; Prather Publishing Co., 1941.