{"id":2392,"date":"2012-10-10T11:03:47","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T18:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2392"},"modified":"2012-10-10T11:03:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T18:03:47","slug":"adkins-walter-roberts-jr-1921-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2392","title":{"rendered":"ADKINS, WALTER ROBERTS, JR, 1921-2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Army officer.\u00a0 Born&#8211;September 21, 1921, Montevallo.\u00a0 Parents&#8211; Walter R. and Clara E. Adkins.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Jacquelyn Boyette.\u00a0 Education&#8211; U. S. Military Academy, graduated 1945; University of Alabama, M. A., 1956; Ph. D., 1981.\u00a0 United States Army, 1945-1975; served in World War II,\u00a0the Korean conflict, and the Vietnam War;\u00a0retired with the rank of Colonel, 1975.\u00a0 Member Rotary Club, Cattlemen&#8217;s Association.\u00a0 Awarded several military medals, including the Gallantry Cross with Gold Star and the Legion of Merit.\u00a0 Died December 4, 2011.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sammie Cockrell [nephew of Walter R. Roberts]<\/p>\n<p>Obituary, Birmingham News, December 6, 2011.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Political Development of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.\u00a0 M. A. Thesis, University of Alabama, 1956.<\/p>\n<p>Organizational Tolerance of Creativity and Innovation; A Comparative Study of Military Organizations.\u00a0 Ph. D. dissertation, University of Alabama, 1981.<\/p>\n<p>Struggling into War.\u00a0 AuthorHouse, 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Walking Home from Rock Island. AuthorHouse, 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography; U.S. Army officer.\u00a0 Born&#8211;September 21, 1921, Montevallo.\u00a0 Parents&#8211; Walter R. and Clara E. Adkins.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Jacquelyn Boyette.\u00a0 Education&#8211; U. S. Military Academy, graduated 1945; University of Alabama, M. A., 1956; Ph. D., 1981.\u00a0 United States Army, 1945-1975; served in World War II,\u00a0the Korean conflict, and the Vietnam War;\u00a0retired with the rank of Colonel, 1975.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/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-2392","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\/2392","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=2392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}