{"id":1950,"date":"2014-09-12T09:14:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T16:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1950"},"modified":"2015-05-29T13:17:11","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T20:17:11","slug":"roberts-joseph-boxley-jr-1918","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1950","title":{"rendered":"ROBERTS, JOSEPH BOXLEY, JR., 1918-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Air force officer, university professor, dean. Born&#8211; February 13, 1918, Yazoo City, Miss. Parents&#8211; Joseph Boxley and Sheila (Hill) Roberts. Married&#8211; Rose Nell Dixon, 1939 (divorced, 1944). Children&#8211;one. Married&#8211;Enyd Turner, November 19, 1945. Children&#8211; one. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.A., 1950; University of North Carolina, M.A., 1954; University of Denver, Ph.D., 1959. Served as enlisted man, U.S. Army Air Force, 1942-1943; officer in U.S. Air Force, 1951-1968; retired with rank of lieutenant colonel.\u00a0Taught at U.S. Military Academy, 1953-1956; U.S. Air Force Academy, 1956-1963; director of the information office for aerospace research in Washington, 1963-1966; chief of operations of the psychological operations directorate in Vietnam, 1966-1967. Taught at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, 1950; Troy State University, 1968-81. At Troy, department chairman and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Wrote weekly newspaper column, &#8220;It Seems to Me,&#8221; 1973-1979. Member Modern Language Association, National Council of Teachers of English, and other professional organizations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online; Who&#8217;s Who in the South and Southwest, 1980-1981; Marquis who&#8217;s who online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Airway to India. New York; Central African Division, Air Transport Command, 1945.<\/p>\n<p>Beginner&#8217;s Handbook of Gold and Tropical Fish. Washington, D.C.; Denlinger, 1947.<\/p>\n<p>Faint Voice Calling. New York; Hippogryph Press, 1945.<\/p>\n<p>Of Time and Love.\u00a0 Troy State University Press, 1980.<\/p>\n<p>The Pet Shop Manual. Fond du Lac, Wis.; All-Pet Books, 1953.<\/p>\n<p>Web of Life. Boston; Bruce Humphries, 1957.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Poetry and the Poetic Process. Troy, Ala.; Troy State University Press, 1971.<\/p>\n<p>On Poetry and the Poetic Process. Troy, Ala.; Troy State University Press. 1980.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Sound of Wings; Readings for the Air Age. New York; Holt, 1957.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Air force officer, university professor, dean. Born&#8211; February 13, 1918, Yazoo City, Miss. Parents&#8211; Joseph Boxley and Sheila (Hill) Roberts. Married&#8211; Rose Nell Dixon, 1939 (divorced, 1944). Children&#8211;one. Married&#8211;Enyd Turner, November 19, 1945. Children&#8211; one. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.A., 1950; University of North Carolina, M.A., 1954; University of Denver, Ph.D., 1959. Served as [&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-1950","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\/1950","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=1950"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4426,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions\/4426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}