{"503721":{"#nid":"503721","#data":{"type":"news","title":"In Memoriam:  Maxine Thompson Turner","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMaxine Turner broke barriers in joining Georgia Tech as one of its first women faculty in the 1960s. She was a pioneer in seeking equity on campus for women and minority students and in the development of a technical communications program at Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA teacher of English and History with a long career in Civil War research, during her years in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts (nee The General College and College of Sciences and Liberal Studies (COSALS)), Turner became nationally recognized in the fields of technical communication and the development of technology. Her textbook \u003Cem\u003ETechnical Writing: a Practical Approach \u003C\/em\u003Ewas widely used. She was a poet and recipient of the 1988 Georgia Author of the Year Award for her book \u003Cem\u003ENavy Gray: A Story of the Confederate Navy on the Chattahoochee and Apalachicola Rivers\u003C\/em\u003E, University of Alabama Press. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETurner was a fellow of the National Society of Technical Communication and a frequent speaker at national conferences.\u0026nbsp; She served in Georgia Tech\u2019s Academic Senate, as faculty advisor to the Executive Round Table, and worked with the Society of Women Engineers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETurner was a native Georgian. She attended Huntingdon for undergraduate studies, then Auburn University where she earned master\u2019s degrees in History and English and a Ph.D. in English.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFuneral services for Dr. Turner were held Sunday, February 14.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.legacy.com\/obituaries\/atlanta\/obituary.aspx?n=maxine-thompson-turner\u0026amp;pid=177704573\u0026amp;fhid=11908\u0022\u003ERead obituary\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;including more about Dr. Turner\u0027s life, scholarship, and career.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMaxine Turner broke barriers in joining Georgia Tech as one of its first women faculty in the 1960s. She was a pioneer in seeking equity on campus for women and minority students and in the development of a technical communications program at Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"One of Georgia Tech\u0027s early women faculty members from the 1960s has passed away."}],"uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2016-02-19 14:29:44","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:49","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-02-19T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-02-19T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"504501":{"id":"504501","type":"image","title":"Maxine Thompson Turner","body":null,"created":"1456167600","gmt_created":"2016-02-22 19:00:00","changed":"1475895265","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:25","alt":"Maxine Thompson Turner","file":{"fid":"204802","name":"maxineturner.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/maxineturner_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/maxineturner_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":4534,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/maxineturner_0.jpg?itok=67O4h1rO"}}},"media_ids":["504501"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.legacy.com\/obituaries\/atlanta\/obituary.aspx?fhid=11908\u0026n=maxine-thompson-turner\u0026pid=177704573","title":"Maxine Turner Obituary"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"171761","name":"Maxine Turner"},{"id":"85771","name":"technical communication"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u003Cbr \/\u003EDirector of Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-1720\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}