{"id":1900,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1900"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"sawyer, effie white, 1920-  ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1900","title":{"rendered":"SAWYER, EFFIE WHITE, 1920-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Businesswoman.  Born&#8211;  May 2, 1920, in Kemper Co., Miss.  Parents&#8211;  Joseph Leslie and  Myrtle (Palmer) White.  Married&#8211;  Merritt Ruben Sawyer on Apr. 10, 1941.  Education&#8211;  Massey Business College; Jacksonville State University, B.S.  Civilian employee with U.S. Army in the Gadsden Housing Authority; worked in law offices in Birmingham and Gadsden, and for Jacksonville State, 1957-1984; vice chairman Jacksonville Housing Authority; certified professional secretary.  Awarded honorary LL.D. by Jacksonville State, 1984, and declared Alumna of the Year. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Effie W. Sawyer, Jacksonville, Ala.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The First Hundred Years, 1883-1893;  History of Jacksonville State University.                       Jacksonville, Ala.;  Jacksonville State University, 1983. <\/p>\n<p>     Story of the First Presbyterian Church, 1834-1984, Jacksonville, Alabama.  Jacksonville,      Ala.;  Jacksonville First Presbyterian Church, 1984. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Businesswoman. Born&#8211; May 2, 1920, in Kemper Co., Miss. Parents&#8211; Joseph Leslie and Myrtle (Palmer) White. Married&#8211; Merritt Ruben Sawyer on Apr. 10, 1941. Education&#8211; Massey Business College; Jacksonville State University, B.S. Civilian employee with U.S. Army in the Gadsden Housing Authority; worked in law offices in Birmingham and Gadsden, and for Jacksonville State, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900","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=1900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}