{"id":1110,"date":"2011-04-19T08:25:29","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T15:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1110"},"modified":"2017-11-21T10:32:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T17:32:43","slug":"cowart-ralph-waldo-1890","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1110","title":{"rendered":"COWART, RALPH WALDO, 1890-1974"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Educator; professor of education. Born&#8211; January 7, 1890, Luverne. Parents&#8211; James Hausford and Mary Jane (Larkin) Cowart. Married Gladys Godbey, June 28, 1920. Education&#8211; Luverne and Goshen public schools,\u00a0 Troy State Normal School (graduated 1910); University of Alabama, B.S., 1914; \u00a0Columbia University, M.A., 1921; additional graduate study at Columbia, the University of Michigan, and the University of Bristol (England). Served with the AEF in France, 1918-19.\u00a0Taught in\u00a0Andalusia 1910-1911, Castleberry 1911-1912; principal of\u00a0New Decatur High School 1914-15; superintendent of Albany City Schools, 1915-25.\u00a0 First full-time secretary of the Alabama Education Association, 1925-27. Professor of Education at the University of Alabama, 1927-60; Interim Dean, 1959-60.\u00a0Member of Phi Beta Kappa, AEA, NEA, AAUP, Phi Delta Kappa and the Rotary Club.\u00a0 Awarded the honorary LL. D. by the University of Alabama, 1960.\u00a0 Died August 6, 1974.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brunson, Marion, and Cowart, Nancy. A History of Our Cowart Family.\u00a0 Tuscaloosa, 1964.<\/p>\n<p>Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History and at the University of Alabama Alumni Association.<\/p>\n<p>Obituary, Alabama Alumni News, November-December 1974.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Citizen&#8217;s Catechism on the Public Schools of Alabama; Being a Compendium of Information in the Form of Eighty-six Questions and Answers. Montgomery, Ala.; Alabama Education Association, 1926.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Educator; professor of education. Born&#8211; January 7, 1890, Luverne. Parents&#8211; James Hausford and Mary Jane (Larkin) Cowart. Married Gladys Godbey, June 28, 1920. Education&#8211; Luverne and Goshen public schools,\u00a0 Troy State Normal School (graduated 1910); University of Alabama, B.S., 1914; \u00a0Columbia University, M.A., 1921; additional graduate study at Columbia, the University of Michigan, and [&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-1110","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\/1110","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=1110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7101,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions\/7101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}