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Alexander W. Delk
The author of Memories of Yesteryear is Alexander W. Delk, who
currently lives in Cleveland, Tennessee.
Alexander W. Delk was born July 19, 1922 in the Union Hill...view moreThe author of Memories of Yesteryear is Alexander W. Delk, who
currently lives in Cleveland, Tennessee.
Alexander W. Delk was born July 19, 1922 in the Union Hill community
near the then small town of Goodlettsville, Tennessee. The area was
then very rural, though is now somewhat less so. His father died two
months earlier from injuries suffered in World War I. His mother
remarried six years later and reared a second family. The author was
reared in the home of his maternal grandparents from the time of
his birth until adulthood.
He attended rural Union Hill elementary school and graduated from
Goodlettsville High School in 1940. He holds a B.A. degree from
(then) Scarritt College in Nashville (1943), a master's degree in
religion from Vanderbilt University (1946), and a master's degree
in educational administration from the University of Tennessee
(1959). He also has graduate work at the University of Illinois and
elsewhere.
He pastored rural Methodist churches for nine years, during which
time he married his late wife, Faye Treadwell Delk on September 14,
1947 at Waynesboro Tennessee.
In 1954 he came to Cleveland, Tennessee, as a member of the faculty
of Lee College. In 1960 he and family moved to Urbana, Illinois, for
further graduate work at the University of Illinois.
The family spent the next thirty years in Illinois. He is retired from
the Illinois public school system, having spent most of those years in
either teaching or school administration.
He and wife returned to Cleveland, Tennessee, in 1990. For the
twenty-one years from 1991 t0 2012 he taught public speaking at
Cleveland State Community College, retiring in May 2012 with a
total of 57 years in education as a teacher/administrator.
Mrs. Delk passed away December 19, 2005. They have four
children, six grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren. He is
currently active in the community and in two of its churches.
He is a frequent speaker when the occasion arises. He may be
reached at (423) 472-2664.view less
Books by Alexander W. Delk
Memories of Yesteryear: Life of Rural America During the 1920'S and 1930'S