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:For his wife Elenora Albrecht Cawthon, see last section of this article. John Ardis Cawthon (March 16, 1907 – October 5, 1984)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Social Security Death Index )〕〔The Louisiana Tech records reveal Cawthon's date of death as October 5, 1984, but ''North Louisiana History'' uses October 2 of that year.〕 was an educator and regional historian from Ruston in Lincoln Parish in north Louisiana, who was affiliated with Louisiana Tech University from 1939–1940, 1948, and from January 12, 1954, until retirement on May 31, 1972.〔Confirmed by the Human Resources Office at Louisiana Tech University〕 Cawthon was a frequent contributor to ''North Louisiana History'', which named its John Ardis Cawthon Memorial Printing Fund in his honor.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=North Louisiana Historical Association )〕 ==Background== Cawthon was born in south Bossier Parish to James Alexander Cawthon (1878–1961), a native of the McDade community, and the former Maggie Mae Dance (1878–1968), originally from nearby Webster Parish. He was named for a family friend, John Houston Sibley, and the Reverend H. Z. Ardis, a pioneer Baptist minister who had taught at the early Mount Lebanon College in De Soto Parish. He hence shared his father's initials, "J. A." He was first home-schooled by his mother, who had attended Athens Academy in Claiborne Parish. From the fifth through the eighth grades, Cawthon attended the one-room school in the Koran community of south Bossier Parish. The family then relocated to Doyline in south Webster Parish, where John Cawthon completed high school.〔"John Ardis Cawthon (1907-1984): A Short Sketch of an Outstanding North Louisianian," ''North Louisiana History'', Vol. 15, No. 2,3 (Spring-Summer 1984), pp. 96-98〕 James and Maggie Cawthon married in 1905 in Athens in southern Claiborne Parish. Cawthon had a brother, James Dance Cawthon (1915–2011) of Shreveport, who taught briefly at Springhill High School in Springhill in northern Webster Parish before he began a long career in the accounting department of the United Gas and Pennzoil companies. James Dance Cawthon, who served as the business administrator for a decade of the First Presbyterian Church of Shreveport, also did some historical writing which was published by the North Louisiana Historical Association.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=James Dance Cawthon obituary )〕 Cawthon had two sisters, Maggie Lee McIntyre (1911–2007) of Doyline, a state social work supervisor from 1935 to 1976, based in Minden,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Maggie Lee Cawthon McIntyre )〕 and Miss Annis Ella Cawthon (1909–1999), a former educator in Springhill. In 1950, Annis Cawthon was elected president of the Webster Parish Classroom Teachers Association.〔"Miss Cawthon Elected President of Webster Parish Teacher Group", ''Minden Herald'', April 28, 1950, p. 1〕 She later taught mathematics at Louisiana Tech from 1959-1974. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=James Alexander Cawthon (father of John A. Cawthon) )〕〔"Cawthon Rites Slated Today." ''Minden Press-Herald'', May 31, 1968, p. 1〕 Cawthon's parents and sisters are interred at Doyline Cemetery.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Index to Doyline Cemetery )〕 All of the Cawthon siblings graduated from Louisiana Tech.〔 Cawthon studied English and history and received his Bachelor of Arts in secondary education from Louisiana Tech in 1934 and his Master of Arts from Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge in 1938.〔Louisiana Tech University yearbook, ''The Lagniappe'' (1967), p. 24〕〔Louisiana Tech records do not indicate when Cawthon received his first two degrees.〕 He taught in Webster Parish high schools during the 1930s at Cotton Valley (1934–1935)) and Sarepta (1935–1939).〔 In the 1939-1940 year, he taught at the A. E. Phillips Laboratory School on the Louisiana Tech campus, recruited for that position by Professor Phillips himself.〔 From 1940-1942, Cawthon was a member of the faculty at Northwestern State University (then known as Louisiana Normal) until he was conscripted at the age of thirty-five into the United States Army during World War II. He served in Europe in the Education-Orientation Division of the armed forces.〔 In 1974, some three decades after the event, he wrote the article, "A School Teacher Gets Drafted," in ''North Louisiana History''.〔〔"A School Teacher Gets Drafted", ''North Louisiana History'', Vol. 5, No. 4 (Summer 1974), pp. 130-134〕 After the war, Cawthon returned briefly to Northwestern and then left to study for his Ed.D. (since recognized by the National Science Foundation as equivalent to a Ph.D.) at the University of Texas at Austin.〔 His major professor, J. G. Umstattd, had worked with him during the war at the Biarritz American University in France.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Ardis Cawthon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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