{"id":1858,"date":"2012-09-20T09:36:18","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T16:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1858"},"modified":"2012-09-20T09:36:18","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T16:36:18","slug":"parker-william-vann-1901","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1858","title":{"rendered":"PARKER, WILLIAM VANN, 1901-1987"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Professor, university administrator. Born&#8211; December 22, 1901, in Monroe, N.C. Parents&#8211; Benjamin Franklin and Sarah Della (Cox) Parker. Married&#8211; Carolyn Adele Edwards, July 3, 1926; children&#8211;three. Education&#8211; University of North Carolina, A.B., 1923; A.M., 1924; Princeton University, 1926-1927; Brown University, Ph.D., 1931. Taught at the University of the South, 1924-1925; University of North Carolina, 1925-1931; Princeton University, 1926-1927; Mississippi Woman&#8217;s College (now William Cary College), 1931-1934; Georgia Institute of Technology, 1934-1936; Louisiana State University, 1936-1947; University of Georgia, 1947-1950; Auburn University, 1950-1953; Graduate Dean at Auburn, 1953-1972. Published over thirty papers in mathematical journals. Member of the Mathematics Association of America and other professional organizations; helped organize the Alabama Association of College Teachers of Mathematics.\u00a0The mathematics building at Auburn\u00a0was named Parker Hall in his honor by the Auburn Board of Trustees.\u00a0\u00a0Died November 25, 1987.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Battle, Anne Parker, William Vann Parker, Alabama Journal of Mathematics, XIV (1990), 7-10.<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in America, 1976-1977<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Matrices. New York; Ronald Press, 1960.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Department of Special Collections and Archives at the Ralph Brown Draughon Library at Auburn University holds a collection of William Vann Parker&#8217;s papers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Professor, university administrator. Born&#8211; December 22, 1901, in Monroe, N.C. Parents&#8211; Benjamin Franklin and Sarah Della (Cox) Parker. Married&#8211; Carolyn Adele Edwards, July 3, 1926; children&#8211;three. Education&#8211; University of North Carolina, A.B., 1923; A.M., 1924; Princeton University, 1926-1927; Brown University, Ph.D., 1931. Taught at the University of the South, 1924-1925; University of North Carolina, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858","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=1858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}