{"id":1120,"date":"2017-11-13T13:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T20:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2017-11-20T11:35:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T18:35:04","slug":"corum-betty-jo-1927-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1120","title":{"rendered":"CORUM, BETTY JO,  1927-1970"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Church director of education; denominational executive. Born&#8211; February 11, 1927, Knoxville, Tenn. Parents&#8211; W. W. and Mary Elizabeth (Brewer) Corum. Education&#8211; Graduated from Carson Newman College, 1949; Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, M.R.E., 1954. Served as education director of Robertsville Baptist Church in Oak Ridge, Tenn.; director of \u00a0Junior-Intermediate work for the Training Union Department of the Tennessee Baptist State Convention, 1954-1960; director of the Editorial Service Department of Women&#8217;s Missionary Union of the Southern Baptist Convention in Birmingham after 1965. She wrote lesson materials, articles, and poems. Died September 15, 1970.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists, Supplement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Corner of Today. Nashville; Broadman, 1969.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hello, World! A Musical Drama. Nashville; Broadman, 1971.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Church director of education; denominational executive. Born&#8211; February 11, 1927, Knoxville, Tenn. Parents&#8211; W. W. and Mary Elizabeth (Brewer) Corum. Education&#8211; Graduated from Carson Newman College, 1949; Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, M.R.E., 1954. Served as education director of Robertsville Baptist Church in Oak Ridge, Tenn.; director of \u00a0Junior-Intermediate work for the Training Union Department [&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-1120","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\/1120","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=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7085,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions\/7085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}