Publicist; administrator; author.\u00a0 Born– Birmingham, March 26, 1942.\u00a0 Parents– Leonard P. and Betty Lou (Durham) Bryant.\u00a0 Married– Lee Norcross Allen, August 24, 1963.\u00a0 Children–two.\u00a0 Education; Samford University, A.B., 1964; Emory University, M.B.A., 1984.\u00a0 Worked for Southern Baptist Convention Women’s Missionary Union, 1964-1989; Executive Director Sesquicentennial Commission, \u00a0Samford University, 1989-1992; Executive Director, American Association of\u00a0Presidents of Independent Colleges, 1993-\u00a0 .\u00a0 Contributor to religious periodicals and denominational publications.\u00a0 Member Baptist Public Relations Association (president, 1971-72); Horizon 280 Association, Women in Communications.\u00a0 Chair of Public Relations Advisory Committee of executive committee of Southern Baptist Convention. President of Women’s Department of the Baptist World Alliance, 1990-95.\u00a0 Samford Alumna of the Year, 1980.<\/p>\n
Source;<\/strong><\/p>\n Contemporary Authors online; Marquis Who’s Who online.<\/p>\n Author;<\/strong><\/p>\n The New Lottie Moon Story.\u00a0 Broadman, 1980.<\/p>\n A Century to Celebrate; A History of the Woman’s Missionary Union.\u00a0 WMU, Southern Baptist Convention, 1987.<\/p>\n Laborers Together with God; Twenty-two Great Women in Baptist Life.\u00a0 WMU, Southern Baptist Convention, 1987.<\/p>\n Co-author;<\/strong><\/p>\n The Boaz Heritage; A Centennial History, 1897-1997.\u00a0 Boaz; The City, 1998.<\/p>\n Christ Is Our Salvation; A Life Story of Paul and Katy Piper.\u00a0 Birmingham; Samford University Press, 1998.<\/p>\n The Courage to Care:\u00a0 The Story of Ida B. Moffett.\u00a0 Samford University Press, 1988.<\/p>\n The History of the Woman’s Missionary Union.\u00a0 Convention Press, 1976.<\/p>\n Outward Focus; the First Fifty Years of Mountain Brook Baptist Church, 1944-1994.\u00a0 Birmingham; The Church, 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Publicist; administrator; author.\u00a0 Born– Birmingham, March 26, 1942.\u00a0 Parents– Leonard P. and Betty Lou (Durham) Bryant.\u00a0 Married– Lee Norcross Allen, August 24, 1963.\u00a0 Children–two.\u00a0 Education; Samford University, A.B., 1964; Emory University, M.B.A., 1984.\u00a0 Worked for Southern Baptist Convention Women’s Missionary Union, 1964-1989; Executive Director Sesquicentennial Commission, \u00a0Samford University, 1989-1992; Executive Director, American Association of\u00a0Presidents of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380","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=2380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5682,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions\/5682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}