{"id":1236,"date":"2013-06-10T09:59:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T16:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2018-02-01T10:46:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T17:46:15","slug":"dyer-john-percy-1902","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1236","title":{"rendered":"DYER, JOHN PERCY, 1902-1975"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historian; university professor and administrator. \u00a0Born&#8211; June 24, 1902, New Albany, Miss. Parents&#8211; Walker Wadell and Clementine (Snipes) Dyer. Married&#8211; Frances Thaxton, 1925. Education&#8211; B.A., 1925; Peabody College, B.S., 1926; M.A., 1930; Vanderbilt University, Ph.D., 1932. Taught at Florence State College, 1926-1932; University of Georgia in Atlanta, 1934-1936; Armstrong State College, 1936-1939; account executive radio station WSAV, 1939-41; state executive, Office of Price Administration, 1941-45; general manager radio station WDAR, 1945-48; \u00a0Tulane University, professor of history and\u00a0 dean of University College and director of the Center of Study Liberal Education\u00a0for Adults, 1948-75. Member of the Civil War Roundtable, the Southern Historical Association and the Association of University Evening Colleges. New Orleans Cultural Center Commission President, 1960-61. John Percy Dyer Award at Tulane is awarded annually to a faculty member for distinguished service.\u00a0 Died October 5, 1975.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online; Marquis who&#8217;s who online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fightin&#8217; Joe&#8221; Wheeler. Baton Rouge, La.; Louisiana State University Press, 1941.<\/p>\n<p>From Shiloh to San Juan. Baton Rouge, La.; Louisiana State University Press, 1961.<\/p>\n<p>The Gallant Hood. Indianapolis, Ind.; Bobbs, 1950.<\/p>\n<p>Ivory Towers in the Market Place. Indianapolis, Ind.; Bobbs, 1956.<\/p>\n<p>Tulane; the Biography of a University. New York; Harper, 1966.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Education of American Businessmen. New York; McGraw, 1959.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A collection of the papers of John Percy Dyer is held in the Special Collections Department of the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library at Tulane University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Historian; university professor and administrator. \u00a0Born&#8211; June 24, 1902, New Albany, Miss. Parents&#8211; Walker Wadell and Clementine (Snipes) Dyer. Married&#8211; Frances Thaxton, 1925. Education&#8211; B.A., 1925; Peabody College, B.S., 1926; M.A., 1930; Vanderbilt University, Ph.D., 1932. Taught at Florence State College, 1926-1932; University of Georgia in Atlanta, 1934-1936; Armstrong State College, 1936-1939; account executive [&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-1236","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\/1236","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=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7507,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions\/7507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}