{"id":1449,"date":"2018-06-20T09:11:17","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T16:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2018-06-26T12:35:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T19:35:22","slug":"hunt-alma-fay-1909","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1449","title":{"rendered":"HUNT, ALMA FAY, 1909-2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Denominational executive; educator; advocate for missions. Born&#8211; October 5, 1909, Roanoke, Va. Parents&#8211; William Otis and Myrtle (Wertz) Hunt. Education&#8211; Longwood College (now Virginia State Teachers College), B.S., 1941; Columbia University, A.M., 1947. Taught in county schools of Roanoke, Va., 1929-1931, principal, 1931-1932; city schools of Roanoke, principal, 1932-1944; William Jewell College, dean of women, 1944-1948. Executive secretary,\u00a0Woman&#8217;s Missionary Union, Southern Baptist Convention, Birmingham, 1948-1974. Volunteer staff member and consultant for women&#8217;s work, Baptist Foreign Mission Board, until her death.\u00a0\u00a0Co-founder of North American Baptist Women&#8217;s Union, made up of women from fourteen Baptist organizations; Member; Baptist World Alliance (vice-president,1970-75); Southern Baptist Foundation; American Bible Society. Honors&#8211; William Jewell College, Honorary D.H.L., 1958. Received many denominational honors; in Alabama, the Hunt Library and Archives at WMU headquarters in Birmingham was set up in her honor. Died June 14, 2008.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in Alabama, Vol. 3; obituary<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Woman&#8217;s Missionary Union; History of the Woman&#8217;s Missionary Union. Birmingham, Ala.; Woman&#8217;s Missionary Union Auxiliary to Southern Baptist Convention, 1964.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Denominational executive; educator; advocate for missions. Born&#8211; October 5, 1909, Roanoke, Va. Parents&#8211; William Otis and Myrtle (Wertz) Hunt. Education&#8211; Longwood College (now Virginia State Teachers College), B.S., 1941; Columbia University, A.M., 1947. Taught in county schools of Roanoke, Va., 1929-1931, principal, 1931-1932; city schools of Roanoke, principal, 1932-1944; William Jewell College, dean of [&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-1449","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\/1449","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=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8305,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions\/8305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}