{"id":1078,"date":"2013-01-11T12:22:54","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T19:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2013-01-11T12:22:54","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T19:22:54","slug":"cruse-irma-belle-russell-1911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1078","title":{"rendered":"CRUSE, IRMA BELLE RUSSELL, 1911-2002"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Public relations, rate supervisor, editor, civic leader.  Born&#8211; May 3, 1911, Hackneyville.   Parents&#8211;  Charles Henry and Nellie Dunn (Ledbetter) Russell.  Married&#8211;  Jesse Clyde Cruse, December 22, 1931.  Children&#8211;  Two.  Education&#8211;  Birmingham Southern College, University of Chicago, University of Wisconsin, and University of Minnesota; University of Alabama, A.B. in Journalism (1976); Samford, M.A. in English (1981) and in History (1984).\u00a0Worked for Southern Bell, 1928-1944, 1954-1976; public relations supervisor from 1965-1968; rate supervisor, 1968-1976.\u00a0 Edited BAMA Bulletin for South Central Bell Telephone Company; edited the Muse Messenger for the Alabama State Poetry Society, 1977; edited the Alabama Baptist Historian, 1986-89.\u00a0\u00a0Member, vice-president and\u00a0 president of the Birmingham Association of Industrial Editors. Served on the Board of Directors of the Alabama Festival of the Arts, 1970-73.\u00a0 Nominated Woman of the Year in Birmingham three times.  Earned three Freedom Foundation awards. Outstanding Alumna of University of Alabama New College, 1991. Died February 10, 2002.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Obituary, Birmingham News, February 12, 2002; Foremost Women in Communications, 1970; Who&#8217;s Who in the South and            Southwest, 1982.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Centennial Reminiscence.  S.l.;  s.n., 1982.<\/p>\n<p>The First Ten Years;  an Informal History of Metropolitan Business and Professional      Women&#8217;s Club of Birmlngham.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Cruse, 1973.<\/p>\n<p>To Bear the Message;  a Dramatic Presentation for the Christmas Season.  Franklin,      Ohio;  Eldridge Pub. Co., 1953.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Public relations, rate supervisor, editor, civic leader. Born&#8211; May 3, 1911, Hackneyville. Parents&#8211; Charles Henry and Nellie Dunn (Ledbetter) Russell. Married&#8211; Jesse Clyde Cruse, December 22, 1931. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Birmingham Southern College, University of Chicago, University of Wisconsin, and University of Minnesota; University of Alabama, A.B. in Journalism (1976); Samford, M.A. in English [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","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=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}