{"id":1398,"date":"2015-09-17T13:26:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T20:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1398"},"modified":"2018-07-17T10:00:46","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T17:00:46","slug":"johnston-marguerite-spradling-1917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1398","title":{"rendered":"JOHNSTON, MARGUERITE SPRADLING, 1917-2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Journalist. Born&#8211; August 7, 1917, Birmingham, Ala. Parents&#8211; Robert C. and Marguerite (Spradling) Johnston. Married&#8211; Charles Wynn Barnes, August 31, 1946. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Birmingham Southern College, A.B., 1938. Reporter, Birmingham News, 1939-1945; Washington correspondent, Birmingham News, Birmingham Age-Herald, London Daily Mirror, 1945-1946; editor and columnist, Houston Post, 1947-85. Received Theta Sigma Phi Woman of the Year in Journalism award, 1954; Houston Committee of Alcoholism Award of Merit, 1955; American Society of Safety Engineers, Gulf Coast Chapter, Certificate of Merit; Agnes Carter Nelms Award, Planned Parenthood; School Bell Award, Texas State Teachers Association. Member Houston Municipal Arts Commission; Texas Bill of Rights Foundation; Philosophical Society of Texas.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Died December 13, 2005.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marquis who&#8217;s who online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Happy Worldly Abode; Christ Church Cathedral, 1839-1964. Houston; Cathedral Press, 1964.<\/p>\n<p>Houston:\u00a0 The Unknown City, 1836-1946. Texas A &amp; M University Press,\u00a01991.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A collection of the papers of Marguerite Spradling Johnston is held by the Fondren Library at Rice University in Houston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Journalist. Born&#8211; August 7, 1917, Birmingham, Ala. Parents&#8211; Robert C. and Marguerite (Spradling) Johnston. Married&#8211; Charles Wynn Barnes, August 31, 1946. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Birmingham Southern College, A.B., 1938. Reporter, Birmingham News, 1939-1945; Washington correspondent, Birmingham News, Birmingham Age-Herald, London Daily Mirror, 1945-1946; editor and columnist, Houston Post, 1947-85. Received Theta Sigma Phi Woman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-j-l"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398","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=1398"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8418,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions\/8418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}