{"id":1508,"date":"2013-06-20T14:46:23","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T21:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2018-05-30T09:27:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T16:27:31","slug":"henry-waights-gibbs-jr-1910","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1508","title":{"rendered":"HENRY, WAIGHTS GIBBS, JR., 1910-1989"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Methodist clergyman; college president. Born&#8211; February 13, 1910, Tuscaloosa. Parents&#8211; Waights Gibbs and Mary Elizabeth (Davis) Henry. Married&#8211; Minnie Lark Brown, February 16, 1935. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Emory University, 1927-1928; Birmingham Southern College, A.B., 1930; Yale University, B.D., 1934. Assistant pastor, Waterbury, Connecticut, 1932-1936; joined North Georgia Conference of Methodist Church, 1936; ordained to Methodist ministry, 1938; pastor, Hoschton, Clayton, and Atlanta, Ga., 1937-1944. Executive secretary to Board of Education, North Georgia Conference, 1945-1948; president, LaGrange College, 1948-78; Chancellor, LaGrange College, 1978-1989. Preacher of the Methodist series of the &#8220;Protestant Hour,&#8221; 1960; columnist for Columbus, Ga. Ledger-Enquirer after 1950; chairman of the board of Protestant Radio and T.V. Center, 1970-1971. Member of several commissions and organizations; president of Georgia Association of Colleges; charter member, Troup County Historical Society. Judge, Miss America Pageant, 1952. Honors&#8211; Birmingham Southern College, D.D., 1947.\u00a0 Died May 29, 1989.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marquis who&#8217;s who online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Begin Where You Are, and Other Sermons. Atlanta; Joint Radio Committee, The Methodist Church, 1960.<\/p>\n<p>A Brief History of LaGrange College. LaGrange, Ga.; Institutional Relations Office of LaGrange College, 1981.<\/p>\n<p>Fuller E. Callaway, Jr.; a Three Dimension Man, and Callaway Foundation, Inc. New York; Newcomen Society of North America, 1979.<\/p>\n<p>Tributary to a Golden Stream; the Story of the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of West Point-LaGrange, Georgia. New York; Newcomen Society in North America, 1982.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A collection of the papers of Waights Gibbs Henry Jr. is held at the Troup County\u00a0 Archives, in the Troup County Historical Society Headquarters in LaGrange, Georgia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Methodist clergyman; college president. Born&#8211; February 13, 1910, Tuscaloosa. Parents&#8211; Waights Gibbs and Mary Elizabeth (Davis) Henry. Married&#8211; Minnie Lark Brown, February 16, 1935. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Emory University, 1927-1928; Birmingham Southern College, A.B., 1930; Yale University, B.D., 1934. Assistant pastor, Waterbury, Connecticut, 1932-1936; joined North Georgia Conference of Methodist Church, 1936; ordained to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-g-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8138,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions\/8138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}