{"id":1127,"date":"2016-05-02T12:25:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T19:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2017-11-09T09:46:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T16:46:25","slug":"cook-william-jesse-jr-1938","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1127","title":{"rendered":"COOK,  BILL (WILLIAM JESSE, JR.), 1938-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Professor of English; college administrator;\u00a0pastor. Born&#8211; July 22, 1938, Piedmont. Parents&#8211; William Jesse and Genevieve (Putnam) Cook. Married&#8211; Judy M. Wallace, February 21, 1959. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Jacksonville State University, A.B., 1960; Auburn University, M.A., 1965, Ph.D., 1968. Taught English at Auburn University and Jacksonville State University; worked for Auburn University at Montgomery, 1969-75;\u00a0vice-president for development, 1973-75. \u00a0In 1963 he was ordained a minister in the Church of Christ. Served as minister of the Highland Church of Christ at Carriage Hills in Montgomery, 1969-1976. Vice-president, Hudson-Thompson, Montgomery, 1975-77. \u00a0Published articles in professional journals. Member Modern Language Association, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, International Platform Association.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Bible Chair. Abilene, Tex.: Quality Printing Company, 1968.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Cook&#8217;s Strategic Planning for American Schools.\u00a0 Arlington:\u00a0 American Association of School Administrators, 1988.<\/p>\n<p>British Short Story.\u00a0 Twayne, 1978.<\/p>\n<p>The Church and her Responsibility to the Young.\u00a0 St. Louis: Christian Publishing Co., 1967.<\/p>\n<p>Confidence in Fact. Abilene, Tex.; Quality Printing Co., 1970.<\/p>\n<p>The Eckleburg Perspective; the Best of Bill Cook Comments. Huntsville, Ala.; Strode, 1980.<\/p>\n<p>The Evolving Corporation:\u00a0 A Humanist Interpretation.\u00a0 Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 2000.<\/p>\n<p>The Great Commission.\u00a0 Abilene, Tex.: Quality Printing Co. 1968.<\/p>\n<p>Masks, Modes and Morals; the Art of Evelyn Waugh. Rutherford, N.J.; Fairleigh Dickinson Press, 1971.<\/p>\n<p>Strategies:\u00a0 The Art and Science of Holistic Strategy.\u00a0 Westport, CT:\u00a0 Quorum Books, 2000.<\/p>\n<p>The Urgency of Change: Metamorphosis of America&#8217;s Schools.\u00a0 Montgomery:\u00a0 Underdog Press, 1988.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Professor of English; college administrator;\u00a0pastor. Born&#8211; July 22, 1938, Piedmont. Parents&#8211; William Jesse and Genevieve (Putnam) Cook. Married&#8211; Judy M. Wallace, February 21, 1959. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Jacksonville State University, A.B., 1960; Auburn University, M.A., 1965, Ph.D., 1968. Taught English at Auburn University and Jacksonville State University; worked for Auburn University at Montgomery, 1969-75;\u00a0vice-president [&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-1127","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\/1127","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=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7057,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions\/7057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}