{"id":639,"date":"2012-09-19T14:02:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T21:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=639"},"modified":"2016-05-16T11:56:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T18:56:19","slug":"acton-hul-cee-marcus-1897","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=639","title":{"rendered":"ACTON, HUL-CEE MARCUS, 1897-1981"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Linguist; college\u00a0professor of French. Born&#8211; April 21, 1897, Louisville, Ky. Parents&#8211; J. W. and Hattie (Gooch) Acton. Married&#8211; Virginia Franklin, July 18, 1927. Children&#8211; One. Education&#8211; Georgetown \u00a0College (Kentucky), A.B., 1917; University of Wisconsin, M.A., 1920, Ph.D., 1925; further study at the Sorbonne, Paris.\u00a0Taught at Georgetown College, Kentucky, 1917-1918; University of Wisconsin, 1920-1925; Samford University, 1926-1967. Head of the language department at Samford, 1937-67. \u00a0Member of the American Association of Teachers of French, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, and Modern French Drama Association. Awarded the status of \u00a0&#8220;Officier d&#8217;Academie avec Palmes Academiques&#8221; by the French government in 1950, in recognition of his services in teaching the French language and culture.\u00a0 Died January 17, 1981.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sulzby, James F., Jr.\u00a0 Toward a History of Samford University.\u00a0 Samford University Press, 1986.<\/p>\n<p>Directory of American Scholars, 6th ed.; Who&#8217;s Who in Alabama, Vol. 2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chalk, Termites, and God&#8217;s Country. Birmingham, Ala.; Banner Press, 1967.<\/p>\n<p>History of the Tau Theta Kappa Society of Georgetown College.\u00a0 Georgetown, KY:\u00a0 Tau Theta Kappa, 1918.<\/p>\n<p>The Pierian Club of Birmingham, with Biographies of Members and Memories of East Lake. Birmingham, Ala.; Banner Press, 1962.<\/p>\n<p>The Soldier in Modern French Drama. Madison; University of Wisconsin, 1926.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>La Nez d&#8217;un Notaire. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.; Prentice-Hall, 1929.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers; <\/strong>Three folders of the papers of Hul-Cee Marcus Acton are held by the library at Samford University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Linguist; college\u00a0professor of French. Born&#8211; April 21, 1897, Louisville, Ky. Parents&#8211; J. W. and Hattie (Gooch) Acton. Married&#8211; Virginia Franklin, July 18, 1927. Children&#8211; One. Education&#8211; Georgetown \u00a0College (Kentucky), A.B., 1917; University of Wisconsin, M.A., 1920, Ph.D., 1925; further study at the Sorbonne, Paris.\u00a0Taught at Georgetown College, Kentucky, 1917-1918; University of Wisconsin, 1920-1925; Samford [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","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=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5492,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/5492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}