{"id":1862,"date":"2012-10-03T08:04:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T15:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1862"},"modified":"2016-03-09T13:53:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T20:53:06","slug":"pannell-anne-thomas-gary-1910","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1862","title":{"rendered":"PANNELL, ANNE THOMAS GARY, 1910-1984"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historian, university professor, college president. Born&#8211; September 10, 1910, Durham, N.C. Parents&#8211; Alexander Henry and Anne Roche (Thomas) Gary. Married&#8211; Henry Clifton Pannell, September 2, 1936 (died 1946); married George A. Taylor. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Barnard College, B.A., 1931; Ph.D., Oxford University, 1935. Taught at Alabama College, 1934-1935; University of Alabama, 1939-1949; Academic Dean, Goucher College, 1949-1950; president of Sweet Briar College, 1950-1971; led the college in the expansion of its enrollment and physical plant.\u00a0Member of the American, Southern, and Alabama Historical Associations, and Phi Beta Kappa. Served as president of the Southern Association of Virginia Colleges and the American Association of University Women (1967-71); vice president of the American Council on Education. Awarded an International Fellowship at Barnard; elected to an Oxford place at the Institute of Historical Research at London University (1932-33).\u00a0Honorary doctorates from University of Alabama, 1952, and several other institutions.\u00a0The Sweet\u00a0Briar College Art Gallery, dedicated in 1985, is named in her honor. Awarded the status of president emeritus on her retirement, 1971.\u00a0Died February 18, 1984.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Current Biography, 1950, Leaders in Education, 1974; Contemporary Authors online; Obituary, New York Times, 23 February 1984.<\/p>\n<p>Diamonstein, Barbarlee.\u00a0 Open Secrets; Ninety-four Women in Touch with Our Time.\u00a0 New York; Viking Press, 1972.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Canada, Our Northern Neighbor. Washington, D.C.; American Association of University Women, 1951.<\/p>\n<p>The Political and Economic Relations of English and American Quakers.\u00a0 Clarendon Press, 1935.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Julia S. Tutwiler and Social Progress in Alabama. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1961.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Historian, university professor, college president. Born&#8211; September 10, 1910, Durham, N.C. Parents&#8211; Alexander Henry and Anne Roche (Thomas) Gary. Married&#8211; Henry Clifton Pannell, September 2, 1936 (died 1946); married George A. Taylor. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Barnard College, B.A., 1931; Ph.D., Oxford University, 1935. Taught at Alabama College, 1934-1935; University of Alabama, 1939-1949; Academic Dean, [&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-1862","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\/1862","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=1862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5227,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions\/5227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}