{"id":941,"date":"2015-10-26T13:54:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T20:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=941"},"modified":"2017-02-16T13:08:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T20:08:51","slug":"carter-frances-tunnell-1922","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=941","title":{"rendered":"CARTER, FRANCES TUNNELL, 1922-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Teacher, university professor; civic leader.\u00a0Born&#8211; May 21, 1922, Springville, Miss. Parents&#8211; David and Mary Annie (McCutcheon) Tunnell. Married&#8211; John Thomas Carter, March 16, 1946. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Attended Blue Mountain College; Wood Junior College, A.A., 1942; University of Southern Mississippi, B.S., 1946; University of Tennessee, M.S., 1948; University of Illinois, Ed.D., 1954; postgraduate study at Ursuline College, 1961, Dayton University, 1963 and Florida State University, 1970. Taught in elementary and high schools and junior colleges in Mississippi; worked for an airplane manufacturing company in Birmingham during WWII: Samford University\u00a0professor, 1956-84; national executive director, Kappa Delta Epsilon, 1987-2003; president, Carter and Carter Consultants, 1987-2004.\u00a0Active in numerous organizations and civic activities, including the Civil Air Patrol (attained rank of lieutenant colonel)\u00a0and teaching of English as a Second Language.\u00a0Founded the American Rosie the Riveter Association, 1998. Writer for Baptist Brotherhood Commission and North American Mission Board. Elected to Alabama Silver Haired Legislature.\u00a0Honors&#8211; Special Service award from the American Red Cross, 1962. Birmingham Woman of the Year, 1977; Birmingham Volunteer of the Year, 1980; named to Senior Citizen Hall of Fame, 2002; with her husband received the Hoover Chamber of Commerce Freedom Award, 2006.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chung Fu and Jim. Birmingham, Ala.; Woman&#8217;s Missionary Union, Southern Baptist Convention. 1977.<\/p>\n<p>Sammy in the Country. Atlanta; Home Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convertion, 1960.<\/p>\n<p>Teachers Guide for Mission Books. Nashville; Convention Press, 1969.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Tween-age Ambassadors. Nashville; Convention Press, 1970.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Papers and other materials of Frances Tunnell Carter are held by the Special Collections Department of the Samford University Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Teacher, university professor; civic leader.\u00a0Born&#8211; May 21, 1922, Springville, Miss. Parents&#8211; David and Mary Annie (McCutcheon) Tunnell. Married&#8211; John Thomas Carter, March 16, 1946. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Attended Blue Mountain College; Wood Junior College, A.A., 1942; University of Southern Mississippi, B.S., 1946; University of Tennessee, M.S., 1948; University of Illinois, Ed.D., 1954; postgraduate study [&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-941","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\/941","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=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6403,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions\/6403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}