{"id":2809,"date":"2014-01-15T10:53:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T17:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2809"},"modified":"2018-12-04T10:08:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T17:08:26","slug":"mclin-elva-bell-1917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2809","title":{"rendered":"McLIN, ELVA BELL, 1917-2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Professor of English; college archivist.\u00a0 Born&#8211; June 5, 1917, Norcatur, Kansas.\u00a0 Parents&#8211; James S. and Ruth\u00a0Diefendorf Bell. Married&#8211;Paul E. McLin, October 18, 1940.\u00a0 Children&#8211;four.\u00a0 Education&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0Kansas State Teachers\u00a0College, B. S. Ed., B.A., 1940; University of Alabama, M. A., 1964; Peabody Institute of Vanderbilt University, Ph. D., 1971.\u00a0 Taught at many levels; \u00a0Taught English at Athens State College, 1965-1987; served as head of the English Department. Served as college archivist and historian, 1987-. Historian and Public Information for the Ordnance Division of the U.S. Army; wrote press releases and program histories.\u00a0Member Sigma Tau Delta English honorary; served as National Historian.\u00a0 Member College English Association, Shakespeare Association, AAUW and DAR.\u00a0 Archives at Athens State is named in her honor.\u00a0 Awarded emeritus status on her retirement at Athens State in 1987.\u00a0 National Senior Scholarship of Sigma Tau Delta is named\u00a0in her honor. \u00a0Athens State Alumni Association Teacher of the Year, 1987;\u00a0 Distinguished Alumna Award, Emporia State College, 1991. Died February 21, 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Obituary; Marquis who&#8217;s who online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Athens College: A Definitive History, 1881-1991. Athens State College Foundation, 1991.<\/p>\n<p>The Bell-Shirley Family.<\/p>\n<p>Madame Childs of Precious Memory; Jane Hamilton Childs, College President.\u00a0 Athens State College, 1989.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography; Professor of English; college archivist.\u00a0 Born&#8211; June 5, 1917, Norcatur, Kansas.\u00a0 Parents&#8211; James S. and Ruth\u00a0Diefendorf Bell. Married&#8211;Paul E. McLin, October 18, 1940.\u00a0 Children&#8211;four.\u00a0 Education&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0Kansas State Teachers\u00a0College, B. S. Ed., B.A., 1940; University of Alabama, M. A., 1964; Peabody Institute of Vanderbilt University, Ph. D., 1971.\u00a0 Taught at many levels; \u00a0Taught English at Athens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-m-o"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809","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=2809"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9133,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions\/9133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}