{"id":689,"date":"2014-06-10T12:38:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T19:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=689"},"modified":"2017-05-02T09:40:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T16:40:06","slug":"atchison-ray-m-1921","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=689","title":{"rendered":"ATCHISON, RAY M., 1921-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University professor of English. Born&#8211; October 8, 1921, Shelby County. Parents&#8211; Edward W. and Jessie (Barber) Atchison. Married&#8211; Geneva Doris Teague, 1948. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Howard College, A.B., 1943; George Peabody College, M.A., 1947; Duke University, Ph.D., 1956.\u00a0 Served in the U.S. Army, WWII. Taught English at George Peabody College, 1946-1947; Samford University, 1947-1992.\u00a0 Conducted numerous recorded interviews preserved in the library at Samford University. Died May 28, 2013.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/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>Baptists of Shelby County, Alabama. Birmingham, Ala.; Banner Press, 1964.<\/p>\n<p>Light in the Valley:\u00a0 History of Dawson Memorial Baptist Church.\u00a0 Birmingham:\u00a0 Dawson Memorial, 1999.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historical Sketches of Alabama Baptist Churches and Associations. Birmingham, Ala.; Howard College Library, 1958.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Hopkins Pratt and The Six Mile Academy. Birmingham, Ala.; Banner Press, 1965.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A collection of the papers of Ray M. Atchison is held by the Special Collections Library at Samford University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: University professor of English. Born&#8211; October 8, 1921, Shelby County. Parents&#8211; Edward W. and Jessie (Barber) Atchison. Married&#8211; Geneva Doris Teague, 1948. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Howard College, A.B., 1943; George Peabody College, M.A., 1947; Duke University, Ph.D., 1956.\u00a0 Served in the U.S. Army, WWII. Taught English at George Peabody College, 1946-1947; Samford University, 1947-1992.\u00a0 [&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-689","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\/689","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=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6480,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions\/6480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}