{"id":1015,"date":"2011-05-24T14:21:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T21:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2018-01-19T10:48:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T17:48:35","slug":"delaney-thomas-caldwell-jr-1918","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1015","title":{"rendered":"DELANEY, THOMAS CALDWELL, JR., 1918-2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>School administrator, museum director, writer. Born&#8211; January 1, 1918, Danville, Va. Parents&#8211; Thomas C. and Ethel (Loving) Delaney. Married&#8211; Lois Jean Fitzsimmons, July 20, 1960. Education&#8211; Spring Hill College, B.S., 1941; University of Alabama, M.A., 1952. Served as dean of the University Military School, 1941-1956; founder and superintendent of Julius T. Wright School for Girls, 1956-1965; museum director for City of Mobile, 1965-1992. Member of the U.S. Civil War Centennial Commission, 1958-1965; Historic Mobile Preservation Society, Alabama Historical Association, International Institute of Arts and Letters, Phi Delta Kappa, and Phi Theta Kappa. Selected one of Mobile&#8217;s forty outstanding citizens on its 250th Anniversary, 1961. Received the Alabama Penwomen Scroll, 1962.\u00a0 Served on the U.S.Civil War Centennial Commission, 1958-65. Died November 13, 2007.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in the South and Southwest, 1978, and Who&#8217;s Who in Alabama, 1972; obituary<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Craighead&#8217;s Mobile. Mobile, Ala.; Haunted Bookshop, 1968.<\/p>\n<p>Deep South. Mobile, Ala.; Haunted Book Shop, 1942.<\/p>\n<p>Madame Octavia Walton LeVert. Mobile, Ala.; Historic Mobile Preservation Society, 1961.<\/p>\n<p>Mary McNeil Fenellosa: An Alabama Woman of Letters.\u00a0 University, Alabama, 1963.<\/p>\n<p>A Mobile Sextet; Papers &#8230;. Mobile, Ala.; The Haunted Book Shop, 1981.<\/p>\n<p>The Phoenix Volunteer Fire Company of Mobile, 1838-1888. Mobile, Ala.; Phoenix Museum, 1967.<\/p>\n<p>Remember Mobile. Mobile ; s.n., 1948.<\/p>\n<p>The Story of Mobile. Mobile, Ala.; Gill Printing, 1953.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Infant Mystics. Mobile, Ala.; s.n., 1968.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Raphael Semmes, Rear Admiral, Confederate States:\u00a0 Documents Pertaining to the Charges Preferred against Him by the U.S&gt; Government, with a Pictorial History of the Voyages of the <em>Sumter <\/em>and the <em>Alabama<\/em>.\u00a0 Museum of the City of Mobile, 1978.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Papers of Thomas Caldwell Delaney Jr. are held by the library at the University of South Alabama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: School administrator, museum director, writer. Born&#8211; January 1, 1918, Danville, Va. Parents&#8211; Thomas C. and Ethel (Loving) Delaney. Married&#8211; Lois Jean Fitzsimmons, July 20, 1960. Education&#8211; Spring Hill College, B.S., 1941; University of Alabama, M.A., 1952. Served as dean of the University Military School, 1941-1956; founder and superintendent of Julius T. Wright School for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-d-f"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7368,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions\/7368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}