{"id":1778,"date":"2018-11-15T14:36:06","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T21:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2018-11-15T14:36:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T21:36:06","slug":"mcdonald-margaret-spain-1919","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1778","title":{"rendered":"McDONALD, MARGARET SPAIN, 1919-1996"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Journalist;\u00a0executive, non-profit organizations.\u00a0Born&#8211; February 22, 1919, Chevy Chase, Md. Parents&#8211; Frank Edward and Margaret Ketcham (Cameron) Spain. Married&#8211; William Clifford McDonald, Jr., August 1, 1944. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Goucher College; Sophie Newcomb College; A.B. Birmingham Southern College, 1939. Employed as woman&#8217;s page editor, Birmingham Age Herald, 1931-1941; club worker, ARC CBI, 1943-1945; volunteer worker, Family Counseling Association; director, the Jefferson County Community Chest; executive director, Greater Birmingham Foundation, 1966. Member&#8211; Regional Health Planning Commission, Community Action Committee, Birmingham Beautification Board, and Operation New Birmingham. Honors&#8211; Woman of the Year, Birmingham Business and Professional Women&#8217;s Club, 1971. The Spain Clinic at UAB is named in honor of Margaret Spain and her husband.\u00a0 Died April 23, 1996.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who of American Women, 1977.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_editor;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Star Witness, Margaret Ketchum Ward; United States Senate Committee on Relations Between Labor and Capital, Relay House in Birmingham, November 15, 1883. S.l.; Historical Activities Committee, National Society of Colonial Dames of America in the State of Alabama. 1977.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Journalist;\u00a0executive, non-profit organizations.\u00a0Born&#8211; February 22, 1919, Chevy Chase, Md. Parents&#8211; Frank Edward and Margaret Ketcham (Cameron) Spain. Married&#8211; William Clifford McDonald, Jr., August 1, 1944. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Goucher College; Sophie Newcomb College; A.B. Birmingham Southern College, 1939. Employed as woman&#8217;s page editor, Birmingham Age Herald, 1931-1941; club worker, ARC CBI, 1943-1945; volunteer worker, [&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-1778","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\/1778","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=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9052,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions\/9052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}