{"id":2076,"date":"2013-04-22T13:53:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T20:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2076"},"modified":"2013-11-06T15:15:34","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T22:15:34","slug":"volker-joseph-frances-1913","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2076","title":{"rendered":"VOLKER, JOSEPH FRANCES, 1913-1989"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dentist, teacher; university administrator. Born&#8211; March 9, 1913, in Elizabeth, N.J. Parents&#8211;Frank and Rose Volker. \u00a0Married&#8211; Juanita Berry on February 6, 1937. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Indiana University, D.D.S., 1936; University of Rochester, A.B., 1938; M.S., 1939, Ph.D., 1941; Dental residency at Mountainside Hospital, N.J., 1936-1937. Taught at School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, 1941-1942; School of Dentistry, Tufts College, 1942-1949. Dean at Tufts, 1948-1949; School of Dentistry, University of Alabama, Birmingham, 1948-1952. Director of Research and Graduate Study, 1955-1965; Vice president of Health Affairs, 1962-1966; vice president of Birmingham Affairs and director of the Medical Center, 1966-1968; Executive Vice president, 1968-1969; President, University, 1969-1976; Chancellor, University of Alabama Systems, 1976-1982; Distinguished professor, 1982. Director of the Arizona Medical School Study, University of Arizona, Tucson, 1962. Awarded honorary degrees from over eight universities; honored by the government of Czechoslavakia, Thailand, and Iceland. Died May 3, 1989.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>American Men and Women of Science; Who&#8217;s Who in the South and Southwest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Numbers Game. Birmingham, Ala.; University of Alabama, 1970.<\/p>\n<p>The University and the City. New York; Newcomen Society in North America, 1971.<\/p>\n<p>The Way of an Administrator. Birmingham, Ala.; University of Alabama, 1966.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Preliminary Report of a Plan for the Expansion of Selected Academic Programs in Birmingham. Birmingham, Ala.; University of Alabama, 1965.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Dentist, teacher; university administrator. Born&#8211; March 9, 1913, in Elizabeth, N.J. Parents&#8211;Frank and Rose Volker. \u00a0Married&#8211; Juanita Berry on February 6, 1937. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Indiana University, D.D.S., 1936; University of Rochester, A.B., 1938; M.S., 1939, Ph.D., 1941; Dental residency at Mountainside Hospital, N.J., 1936-1937. Taught at School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-t-v"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076","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=2076"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2625,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions\/2625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}