{"id":2137,"date":"2013-06-14T11:47:31","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T18:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2137"},"modified":"2013-06-14T11:47:31","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T18:47:31","slug":"snavely-guy-everett-1881","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2137","title":{"rendered":"SNAVELY, GUY EVERETT, 1881-1974"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Educator; college president. Born&#8211; Oct. 26, 1881, Antietam, Md. Parents&#8211; Charles G. and Emma (Rohrer) Snavely. Married&#8211; Ada Rittenhouse, 1905 (died 1949); married Louise Hutcheson, 1950; married Madelyn Hale, 1964. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Johns Hopkins University, A.B., 1901, Ph.D. , 1908.\u00a0Registrar and professor of Romance Languages,\u00a0Allegheny College, 1909-1919; dean and professor, Converse College (S.C.), 1919-1921; president Birmingham Southern College, 1921-1938 and 1955-1957; executive director, Association of American Colleges 1937-1955; consultant to U.S. Information Agency, 1954-1955; interim president Lafayette College, 1957-1958; educational consultant after 1958.\u00a0\u00a0Editor, Association of American Colleges Quarterly, 1937-54. Contributed more than 200 articles to periodicals. President of Association of Urban Universities, Southern Association of Colleges, and Phi Gamma Delta Educational Foundation. Member Phi Beta Kappa; received French Legion of Honor in 1947; received honorary degrees from 23 colleges and universities. Died March 12, 1974.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online; Marquis Who&#8217;s Who online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Aesopic Fables in the Mireoir Historical of Jehan de Vignay. Baltimore; J. H. Furst, 1908.<\/p>\n<p>Choose and Use Your College &#8230; New York; Harper, 1941.<\/p>\n<p>The Church and the Four-Year College &#8230; New York; Harper, 1955.<\/p>\n<p>History of the Southern College Association.\u00a0 Southern College Association, 1945.<\/p>\n<p>A Search for Excellence; Memoirs of a College Administrator. New York; Vantage Press, 1964.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>El Capitan Veneno. Boston; Allyn and Bacon, 1917.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jose; Novela. Boston; Allyn and Bacon, 1920.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Educator; college president. Born&#8211; Oct. 26, 1881, Antietam, Md. Parents&#8211; Charles G. and Emma (Rohrer) Snavely. Married&#8211; Ada Rittenhouse, 1905 (died 1949); married Louise Hutcheson, 1950; married Madelyn Hale, 1964. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Johns Hopkins University, A.B., 1901, Ph.D. , 1908.\u00a0Registrar and professor of Romance Languages,\u00a0Allegheny College, 1909-1919; dean and professor, Converse College (S.C.), [&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-2137","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\/2137","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=2137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}