{"id":1301,"date":"2014-03-14T14:06:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T21:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2018-05-07T09:01:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T16:01:05","slug":"hammond-ralph-charles-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1301","title":{"rendered":"HAMMOND, RALPH CHARLES, 1916-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Real estate executive; writer, editor, public official. Born– February 1, 1916, Big Wills Valley, Valley Head. Parents– William Bleve and Alice Corina Jane (Holleman) Hammond. Married– Myra Leak, June 20, 1954. Children– Two. Education–Berea College; \u00a0University of Alabama, A.B., 1945; additional study at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and Oxford University. \u00a0Served in U.S. Army, 1941-1945; awarded five battle stars for his work as a military war correspondent.\u00a0 Press secretary to Gov. James Folsom of\u00a0 Alabama, 1946-1950; executive secretary to the governor, 1955-1959. Served as general representative for American Red Cross in Greensboro, North Carolina, 1950 to 1954; president of City Center, Inc., in Arab, after 1959; mayor of Arab, 1963-1969; commissioner from Alabama for the U.S. Study Commission on Southeastern River Basins; Alabama Tuberculosis Association, director after 1956 and president, 1972-1974; American president of the Phillip Hamman Family Association after 1972. Member\u00a0 Alabama State Poetry Society; Alabama Writers’ Conclave; National Federation of State Poetry Societies.\u00a0\u00a0 Seventh Poet Laureate of Alabama, 1991-95. Contributor of short stories and feature articles to several periodicals; author of approximately 50 hymns.\u00a0 Named an Outstanding Citizen by the Arab Chamber of Commerce and a Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary International. Awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of West Alabama, 1992. \u00a0Died December 10, 2010.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Obituary; Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, 1982.<\/p>\n

Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Antebellum Mansions of Alabama. New York; Architectural Book Co., 1951.<\/p>\n

A Blossoming of Sonnets.\u00a0 1990.<\/p>\n

Collected Poems. S.l.; Author, 1982.<\/p>\n

Crossing Many Rivers–Poems Along the Way. 1995.<\/p>\n

Edging through the Grass. S.l.; Oasis Press, 1985.<\/p>\n

How High the Stars. S.l.; Author, 1982.<\/p>\n

A Land Set Free. S.l.; Author, 1984.<\/p>\n

My GI Aching Back. New York; Hobson Book Press, 1945.<\/p>\n

One Golden Apple a Day; 366 Meditations. S.l.; Author, 1982.<\/p>\n

Personal Encounters.\u00a0 2001.<\/p>\n

The Phillip Hamman Echo, 1972-1984; Newsletters of the Phillip Hamman Family Association of America. Arab, Ala.; R. Hammond, 1984.<\/p>\n

Phillip Hamman, Man of Valor. Huntsville, Ala.; Strode Publishers, 1976.<\/p>\n

Song of Appalachia. S.l.; Author, 1982.<\/p>\n

A Transient on the Way. S.l.; Author, 1984.<\/p>\n

Upon the Wings of the Wind. S.l.; Author, 1982.<\/p>\n

Upper Alabama–Poems out of Light. 1993.<\/p>\n

Vincent van Gogh, A Narrative Journey.\u00a0 1997.<\/p>\n

Where Eagles Fly By. S.l.; Author, 1984.<\/p>\n

Wisdom Is. Arab, Ala.; Author, 1984.<\/p>\n

Editor_and_Contributor;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alabama Poets; a Contemporary Anthology. Livingston, Ala.; Livingston University Press, 1990.<\/p>\n

Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama holds a collection of papers of Ralph Charles Hammond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Biography: Real estate executive; writer, editor, public official. Born– February 1, 1916, Big Wills Valley, Valley Head. Parents– William Bleve and Alice Corina Jane (Holleman) Hammond. Married– Myra Leak, June 20, 1954. Children– Two. Education–Berea College; \u00a0University of Alabama, A.B., 1945; additional study at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and Oxford University. \u00a0Served in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-g-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301","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=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8002,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions\/8002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}