{"id":1678,"date":"2013-09-16T09:07:04","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T16:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2013-09-16T09:07:04","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T16:07:04","slug":"morriss-elizabeth-cleveland-1877","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1678","title":{"rendered":"MORRISS, ELIZABETH CLEVELAND, 1877-1960"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Teacher; adult educator. Born&#8211; Selma, Ala., September 27,\u00a01877. Parents&#8211; William Calloway and Frances Cornelia (Lide) Cleveland. Married&#8211; John Morriss, September 1908. Education&#8211; A.B., Judson College, 1895; L.I., (a library science degree), Peabody College, 1908; special study, Universities of Virginia and Wisconsin; B.S., 1932; M.A., 1933, Teachers College, Columbia University. Employed as a teacher, public schools, Birmingham, 1900-1901; Selma, 1901-1904; Margaret Allen School, Birmingham, 1904-1908; organized community schools for\u00a0adults, Buncombe County, N.C., 1919; executive director, National Education Association&#8217;s Department of Adult Education, 1929-1931; vice president, National Education Association, 1938-1940; director of adult elementary education, Buncombe County; Director of Adult Education, State Department of Public Instruction; WPA, North Carolina, 1936-1941. Died July 16, 1960.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who of American Women, 1958.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Adult Adventures in Reading. New York; E. P. Dutton, 1939.<\/p>\n<p>Citizens Reference Book. Chapel Hill, N.C.; University of North Carolina Press, 1922.<\/p>\n<p>Teachers&#8217; Manual for Use With Adult Adventures in Reading. New York; E. P. Dutton, 1939.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writing and Composition Book for Adult Beginners. Richmond; Johnson Publishing Co., 1921.<\/p>\n<p>An Experimental Reading Study in the Joint Library-Adult Elementary Education Field. New York; Teachers College, Columbia University, 1935.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Teacher; adult educator. Born&#8211; Selma, Ala., September 27,\u00a01877. Parents&#8211; William Calloway and Frances Cornelia (Lide) Cleveland. Married&#8211; John Morriss, September 1908. Education&#8211; A.B., Judson College, 1895; L.I., (a library science degree), Peabody College, 1908; special study, Universities of Virginia and Wisconsin; B.S., 1932; M.A., 1933, Teachers College, Columbia University. Employed as a teacher, public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-m-o"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678","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=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2481,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions\/2481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}