{"id":1335,"date":"2015-07-13T10:34:47","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T17:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2018-04-23T12:45:49","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T19:45:49","slug":"greer-virginia-bradford-1919","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1335","title":{"rendered":"GREER, VIRGINIA BRADFORD, 1919-2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reporter, free-lance writer. Born&#8211; March 30, 1919, in Atlanta, Ga. (moved to Birmingham at the age of three with her family). \u00a0Parents&#8211; John and Floy (Jarrett) Bradford. Married&#8211; John Robert Greer, Sr., December 23, 1936.\u00a0 Children&#8211;three. Education&#8211; diploma, Newspaper Institute of America, 1952.\u00a0 Reporter for Mobile Register, 1954-1955, 1962-1965.\u00a0 Wrote stories and articles for national magazines and newspapers. Awarded first prize by American Laundry Manufacturers, 1962; the Douglas L. Cannon Medical Reporting Award, 1965. Member of the board of Mobile Mental Health Center, American Pen Women, Octavia LeVert Toastmistress Club. Died February 8, 2008.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in the South and Southwest, 1975; Who&#8217;s Who in Alabama, Vol. 3; finding aid to Virginia Bradford papers, University of South Alabama website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Emergency; the True Story of a Woman&#8217;s Faith and Service as an Emergency Room Volunteer. Chappaqua, N.Y.; Christian Herald House, 1977.<\/p>\n<p>Give Them Their Dignity. Richmond, Va.; John Knox Press, 1963.<\/p>\n<p>The Glory Woods; a Hymn of Healing. Chappaqua, N.Y.; Christian Herald House, 1976.<\/p>\n<p>Mobile, Talk about A Town! Attic Salt Press,\u00a01985.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The papers of Virginia Bradford Greer are held by the library at the University of South Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Reporter, free-lance writer. Born&#8211; March 30, 1919, in Atlanta, Ga. (moved to Birmingham at the age of three with her family). \u00a0Parents&#8211; John and Floy (Jarrett) Bradford. Married&#8211; John Robert Greer, Sr., December 23, 1936.\u00a0 Children&#8211;three. Education&#8211; diploma, Newspaper Institute of America, 1952.\u00a0 Reporter for Mobile Register, 1954-1955, 1962-1965.\u00a0 Wrote stories and articles for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1335","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\/1335","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=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7877,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions\/7877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}