Biography:

Teacher; educational administrator. Born– March 28, 1893, Montgomery County. Parents– Stephen P. and Martha Frances Crawford (Hays) Belser. Education– University of Denver, B.A.; Columbia University, M.A., Ph.D. Teacher and principal in elementary schools in Alabama; served as supervisor of elementary education for Montgomery County, supervisor of primary education for the state of Alabama, state director of the School and Community Organizations in the State;  professor in the Department of Elementary Education at the University of Alabama after 1929. Fellow of the General Education Board, 1927-1929.  The Belser-Parton Reading Center in the College of Education at the University of Alabama was named in honor of Dr. Belser and Dr. Daisy Parton, professors of Elementary Education.  Died June 21, 1972.

Source:

Who’s Who of American Women, 1958.

Publication(s):

Conditions and Practices Influencing the Elementary Education of White Children in the Public Schools of Alabama. Birmingham, Ala.; Birmingham Printing Company, 1930.

Editor:

Teaching Inter-American Relations; a Workshop Report Developed by the Members of the Workshop. University, Ala.; Bureau of Educational Research, CoIlege of Education, University of Alabama, 1944.