{"id":1607,"date":"2018-08-02T10:54:14","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T17:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1607"},"modified":"2018-08-02T11:00:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T18:00:36","slug":"kracke-roy-rachford-1897-1950","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1607","title":{"rendered":"KRACKE, ROY RACHFORD, 1897-1950"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Physician; medical educator and administrator. Born&#8211; Dec. 5, 1897, Hartselle, Ala. Parents&#8211; Henry August and Carrie Camilla (Puryear) Kracke. Married&#8211; Virginia Carolyn Minter, Oct. 17, 1925. Children&#8211; Six. Education&#8211; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1913-1914; University of Alabama, B.S., 1924; Rush Medical College, University of Chicago, M.D., 1927. Worked as a pharmacist, 1914-1917; U.S. Navy, 1917-1921; taught, University of Alabama, 1925-1926; taught, Emory University, 1926-1944; first Dean of the Medical College, University of Alabama in Birmingham, 1944-1950, where he taught pathology, bacteriology, and laboratory medicine, and began building the UAB Medical College into a major medical center. Awarded a certificate of merit for medical research by the American Medical Association, 1934; gold medal, American Society of Clinical Pathologists, 1935. Elected to the Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame, 2004. \u00a0Fellow, American College of Physicians; member; American Board of Pathology; American Medical Association; Medical Association of Georgia; Georgia Academy of Science; Phi Beta Pi; Phi Beta Kappa. Died June 27, 1950.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who Was Who in America online; Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences, University of Alabama in Birmingham; Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame website<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Color Atlas of Hematology, &#8230;. Philadelphia; Lippincott, 1947.<\/p>\n<p>Diseases of the Blood and Atlas of Hematology. Philadelphia; Lippincott, 1937.<\/p>\n<p>A Laboratory Manual of Bacteriology and Serology for Students of Medicine. Atlanta; Banner Press, s.d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Textbook of Clinical Pathology. Baltimore; W. Wood &amp; Co., 1938.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Physician; medical educator and administrator. Born&#8211; Dec. 5, 1897, Hartselle, Ala. Parents&#8211; Henry August and Carrie Camilla (Puryear) Kracke. Married&#8211; Virginia Carolyn Minter, Oct. 17, 1925. Children&#8211; Six. Education&#8211; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1913-1914; University of Alabama, B.S., 1924; Rush Medical College, University of Chicago, M.D., 1927. Worked as a pharmacist, 1914-1917; U.S. Navy, 1917-1921; [&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-1607","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\/1607","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=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8555,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions\/8555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}