{"id":2375,"date":"2011-09-26T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T19:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2375"},"modified":"2018-07-12T10:57:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T17:57:44","slug":"johnson-golda-watson-1915-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2375","title":{"rendered":"JOHNSON, GOLDA WATSON, 1915-1999."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Teacher.\u00a0 Born&#8211; June 17, 1915, Joppa, Al.\u00a0 Parents&#8211; Samuel and Alice (Humphries) Watson.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Kermit A. Johnson, March 21, 1932.\u00a0 One child.\u00a0 University of Alabama, B. S., 1950; M.A., 1958.\u00a0 Teacher in elementary schools\u00a0of Garden City and Mountain Brook, Al., and at Kate Duncan Smith DAR School, Grant, Al.\u00a0 Critic teacher (supervisor of practice teachers) at University of Alabama Laboratory School.\u00a0 First lady of the University of Montevallo during her husband&#8217;s tenure as president, 1968-1986.\u00a0 Researcher and advocate for the restoration of\u00a0 Kingswood House, built in 1823 by Edmund King and\u00a0now a visitor center on the campus of\u00a0the University of\u00a0Montevallo.\u00a0 Member Delta Kappa Gamma education honorary; president, Mountain Brook Educational Association.\u00a0 Alabama Mother of the Year, 1979; received the Award of Merit of the Alabama Historical Commission for her efforts to save Kingswood.\u00a0 Died April 15, 1999.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anonymous.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Lives and Times of Kingswood in Alabama, 1817-1890.\u00a0 University of Montevallo, 1976.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography; Teacher.\u00a0 Born&#8211; June 17, 1915, Joppa, Al.\u00a0 Parents&#8211; Samuel and Alice (Humphries) Watson.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Kermit A. Johnson, March 21, 1932.\u00a0 One child.\u00a0 University of Alabama, B. S., 1950; M.A., 1958.\u00a0 Teacher in elementary schools\u00a0of Garden City and Mountain Brook, Al., and at Kate Duncan Smith DAR School, Grant, Al.\u00a0 Critic teacher (supervisor of practice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-j-l"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8382,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375\/revisions\/8382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}