{"id":747,"date":"2012-10-22T10:16:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T17:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=747"},"modified":"2016-12-09T13:24:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T20:24:01","slug":"bearden-b-r-ca-1927","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=747","title":{"rendered":"BEARDEN, BOBBY RAY, 1927-1989"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>School administrator. Born&#8211;\u00a0April 25,\u00a01927, Jefferson County. Parents&#8211; Elisha Roberson and Anna Louella Williams Bearden. Married. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Attended the University of Alabama; graduated from Howard College and George Peabody College. Worked as a carpenter&#8217;s helper, grocery clerk, milkman, bookkeeper, census-taker, floorwalker, postal clerk, park supervisor and public school\u00a0principal. Served as a radio operator with the U.S. Navy during World War II; principal of Forest Hill School and Underwood School in Jefferson County; principal of Fairfield High School; administrative assistant superintendent of Fairfield city schools. Served as president of Fairfield Education Association. Died October 8, 1989.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Birmingham Public Library files; \u00a0Alabama School Journal, December 1967.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jingle Bells, the Lighter Side of Christmas Verse. New York; Pageant Press, 1961.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: &nbsp; School administrator. Born&#8211;\u00a0April 25,\u00a01927, Jefferson County. Parents&#8211; Elisha Roberson and Anna Louella Williams Bearden. Married. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Attended the University of Alabama; graduated from Howard College and George Peabody College. Worked as a carpenter&#8217;s helper, grocery clerk, milkman, bookkeeper, census-taker, floorwalker, postal clerk, park supervisor and public school\u00a0principal. Served as a radio [&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-747","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\/747","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=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6185,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions\/6185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}