GRAY, Alfred Orren

GRAY, Alfred Orren. American, b. 1914. Genres: Education, Genealogy/Heraldry, History, Military/Defense/Arms control, Theology/Religion, Writing/Journalism, Autobiography/Memoirs, Documentaries/Reportage. Career: Whitworth College, Spokane, WA, Professor, and Chairman of Dept., 1946-80, Emeritus Professor of Journalism, 1980-. Communications and historical research, 1980-. Editorial Advisory Board of Whitworth Today, 1988-90; reporting, freelance feature writing, 1938-41; Historical Editor, Chief Writer, and Administrative Assistant for Public Relations, Office of the Chief Ordnance Officer, European Theater of Operations, Paris, France, and Frankfurt Am Main, Germany, 1944-46; Director of Whitworth College News Bureau, 1952-58; Ed. The Synod Story, 1953-55; Director, Inland Empire Publications Clinic, 1959-74; Board of Dirs., Presbyterian Historical Society, 1984-90, 1991-1994, chairman of Historical Sites Committee, 1986-90. Editorial reader, American Presbyterians: The Journal of Presbyterian History, 1991-95. Publications: History of U.S. Ordnance Service in the European Theater of Operations during World War II, 1946; Techniques of Communications for the Church, 1957; Not by Might: The Story of Whitworth College, 1965; The Whitworthian: A Crash Course in Leadership, 1980; Eight Generations from Gondelsheim: A Genealogical Study, 1980; (co-author) Many Lamps, One Light: A Centennial History, 1984; Of Time and Remembrance: A Memoir, 1996. Address: 101 E Hawthorne Rd Apt B8, Spokane, WA 99218-1557, U.S.A.