Leah Rawls Atkins Explained

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Leah Marie Rawls Atkins (born April 24, 1935) is an American historian and former water skiing champion. She served as Director of the Auburn University Center for the Arts and Humanities.

Atkins won the 1953 World water skiing championships in Toronto.^[1] After a career in water skiing, she earned a Ph.D. in history from Auburn University in 1974.

Atkins was the first woman in the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame. The Leah Rawls Atkins Award, Auburn University’s highest award for athletics, is named in her honor.^[2]

Personal life

In 1954, Atkins married American football player George Atkins.^[3]

Publications

Select books:https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n81024891/

• A manual for writing Alabama State and local history, 1976
• The romantic ideal : Alabama's plantation eden, 1978
• The valley and the hills : an illustrated history of Birmingham & Jefferson County, 1981
• The Jones family of Huntsville Road, 1981
• An Alabama legacy : images of a state, 1994
• The building of Brasfield & Gorrie, 2002
• "Developed for the service of Alabama" : the centennial history of the Alabama Power Company, 1906-2006, 2006

See also

• List of Auburn University people

Notes and References

1. Web site: Alabama Sports Hall of Fame and Museum - Birmingham, Alabama . Ashof.org . 1935-04-24 . 2014-01-19.
2. Web site: facebook . AU ROUNDUP: Blanche Alverson receives Leah Rawls Atkins Award - OANow.com: Auburn University Sports . OANow.com . 2013-12-12 . 2014-01-19.
3. Web site: Atkins' greatest coaching success not with Auburn . GadsdenTimes.com . 2007-08-28 . 2014-01-19.