{"id":665,"date":"2012-11-21T12:16:52","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T19:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=665"},"modified":"2014-07-09T12:00:43","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T19:00:43","slug":"allen-lee-norcross-1926","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=665","title":{"rendered":"ALLEN, LEE NORCROSS, 1926-"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Historian, educator. Born– April 26, 1926, Shawmut. Parents– Leland Norcross and Dorothy (Whitaker) Allen. Married– Catherine Ann Bryant, August 24, 1963. Children– Two. Education– Auburn University, B.S., 1948, M.S., 1949; University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D., 1955. Served with U. S. Army, 1944-46. \u00a0Taught at Eastern Baptist College in St. Davids, Pa., 1952-1961;\u00a0 at Samford University, 1961-2001;\u00a0Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Samford, 1975-1990.\u00a0 Member of the American Historical Association, American Baptist Historical Association, Southern Baptist Historical Association, Southern Historical Association, Alabama Historical Association, Kappa Phi Kappa, and Rotary Club.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Marquis Who’s Who online.<\/p>\n

Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Index to History of Woman’s Missionary Union. S.l.; s.n. 1975.<\/p>\n

Born for Missions; the Birmingham Baptist Association, 1833-1983. Birmingham, Ala.;\u00a0The Association, 1984.<\/p>\n

Expanding the Dream; the Montgomery Baptist Hospital. Montgomery; The Hospital, 1998.<\/p>\n

First Baptist Church of Montgomery, Alabama, 1980-1995.\u00a0 Montgomery, AL; The Church, 1996.<\/p>\n

The First 150 Years; Montgomery’s First Baptist Church, 1929-1979. Montgomery; The Church, 1979.<\/p>\n

From Many Streams; Meadow Brook Baptist Church, 1981-85, History and Bylaws, Roll of Church Members. Birmingham, Ala.; s.n., 1985.<\/p>\n

Notable Past, Bright Future; First Baptist Church, Enterprise, Alabama, 1893-1993. Enterprise, The Church, \u00a01993.<\/p>\n

Ralph W. Beeson; A Biography.<\/p>\n

Samford University on Lakeshore Drive, 1957-2007.<\/p>\n

Southside Baptist Church; a Centennial History, 1886-1986. Birmingham, Ala.; The Church, 1985.<\/p>\n

Woodlawn Baptist Church; the First Century 1886-1986. Birmingham, Ala.; The Church, 1986.<\/p>\n

Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Boaz Heritage; A Centennial History.\u00a0 Boaz; The City of Boaz, 1998.<\/p>\n

Christ Is Our Salvation; A Life Story of Paul and Katy Piper.\u00a0 Birmingham; Samford University Press, 1998.<\/p>\n

Courage to Care; the Story of\u00a0Ida B. Moffett. Birmingham; Samford University Press, 1988.<\/p>\n

Outward Focus; The First Fifty Years of Mountain Brook Baptist Church, 1944-1994.\u00a0 Birmingham, The Church, 1994.<\/p>\n

Sesquicentennial History; Ruhama Baptist Church, 1819-1969. Birmingham, Ala.; Ruhama Baptist Church, 1969.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Biography: Historian, educator. Born– April 26, 1926, Shawmut. Parents– Leland Norcross and Dorothy (Whitaker) Allen. Married– Catherine Ann Bryant, August 24, 1963. Children– Two. Education– Auburn University, B.S., 1948, M.S., 1949; University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D., 1955. Served with U. S. Army, 1944-46. \u00a0Taught at Eastern Baptist College in St. Davids, Pa., 1952-1961;\u00a0 at Samford University, […]<\/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-665","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\/665","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=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2772,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions\/2772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}