{"id":1747,"date":"2019-01-02T14:06:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T21:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1747"},"modified":"2019-01-03T09:54:40","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T16:54:40","slug":"mcmurry-mildred-franklin-dodson-1897-1965","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1747","title":{"rendered":"McMURRY, MILDRED FRANKLIN DODSON, 1897-1965"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Denominational administrator. Born&#8211; Franklin, Ky., November 18, 1897. Parents&#8211; Franklin Pierce and Deliah (Mays) Dodson. Married&#8211; William Meense McMurry, 1924. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; A.B., Tennessee College for Women, 1920; postgraduate work, University of Chicago, 1924. Employed as Mission Study Director of the Woman&#8217;s Missionary Union, Birmingham 1951-1954; secretary, Department of Missionary Fundamentals, 1954-1957; Director of Promotions for the WMU, 1957-1962. Member&#8211; executive board of WMU, 1964; president of the North American Baptist Woman&#8217;s Union, Baptist World Alliance, 1962. Honors&#8211; Citation, Missionary Council of the Southern Baptist Convention; honorary Doctor of Letters degree, Oklahoma Baptist University, 1962. Died January 2, 1965.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who of American Women, 1962; Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists, Supplement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Constraining Love. Nashville; Broadman Press, 1939.<\/p>\n<p>Educating Youth in Missions. Nashville; Convention Press, 1960.<\/p>\n<p>Spiritual Development. Nashville; Convention Press, 1960.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Denominational administrator. Born&#8211; Franklin, Ky., November 18, 1897. Parents&#8211; Franklin Pierce and Deliah (Mays) Dodson. Married&#8211; William Meense McMurry, 1924. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; A.B., Tennessee College for Women, 1920; postgraduate work, University of Chicago, 1924. Employed as Mission Study Director of the Woman&#8217;s Missionary Union, Birmingham 1951-1954; secretary, Department of Missionary Fundamentals, 1954-1957; Director [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-m-o"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747","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=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9181,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions\/9181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}