{"id":4162,"date":"2014-12-15T14:43:09","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T21:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=4162"},"modified":"2018-10-11T10:04:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T17:04:15","slug":"mathews-forrest-david-1935","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=4162","title":{"rendered":"MATHEWS, FORREST DAVID, 1935-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>College president; U.S.cabinet secretary; foundation executive.\u00a0 Born&#8211; December 6, 1935, Grove Hill.\u00a0 Married&#8211;Mary Lou Chapman.\u00a0 Children&#8211;two.\u00a0 University of Alabama, BA, 1958, MA, 1959; Columbia University, Ph. D., 1965. Worked in various administrative capacities at the University of Alabama, 1965-69; , president, 1969-75; 1977-80. (Youngest president of a major University.) \u00a0 Served as the 11th Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1975-80; CEO of the Kettering Foundation, 1981-\u00a0 .\u00a0 Board Member, Gerald Ford Foundation, National Issues Forums Institute, Council on Public Policy Education, Public Agenda.\u00a0 Has received many awards, including one of Ten Outstanding Young Men of America, 1969, the Brotherhood Award from the National Conference of Christians and Jews,\u00a0election to the Alabama Academy of Honor, \u00a0and the Nicholas Murray Butler Medal in Silver from Columbia University.\u00a0 Awarded 16 honorary doctorates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kettering Foundation Website; Alabama Academy of Honor website<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For Communities to Work.\u00a0 Kettering Foundation Press, 2002.<\/p>\n<p>The Ecology of Democracy:\u00a0 Finding Ways to Have a Stronger Hand in Shaping our Future.\u00a0 Kettering, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Is There a Public for Public Schools?\u00a0 Dayton, Ohio: Kettering Foundation, 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Politics for People:\u00a0 Finding a Responsible Public Voice.\u00a0 University of Illinois Press, 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Reclaiming Public Education by Reclaiming our Democracy.\u00a0 Kettering, 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Why Public Schools?\u00a0 Whose Public Schools?\u00a0 NewSouth Press, 2003.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Changing Agenda for American Higher Education.\u00a0 Washington, DC:\u00a0 U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1977.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A collection of papers related to F. David Mathews&#8217; service as Secretary of HEW is held by the Library of Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography; College president; U.S.cabinet secretary; foundation executive.\u00a0 Born&#8211; December 6, 1935, Grove Hill.\u00a0 Married&#8211;Mary Lou Chapman.\u00a0 Children&#8211;two.\u00a0 University of Alabama, BA, 1958, MA, 1959; Columbia University, Ph. D., 1965. Worked in various administrative capacities at the University of Alabama, 1965-69; , president, 1969-75; 1977-80. (Youngest president of a major University.) \u00a0 Served as the 11th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-m-o"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4162"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8939,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions\/8939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}