Ina Turner Gray
E-Mail: wallace.gray@sckans.edu
EDUCATION
- B.S. Central Methodist College, Fayette, Missouri, 1948 (graduated with high honors in business and English)
- M.A. Scarritt College, Nashville, Tennessee, 1952 (religious education and church history)
- Postgraduate work in sociology--University of Hawaii, Honolulu, 1969
EXPERIENCE
- Teacher and secretary to the vice president, Rutherford-Metropolitan School of Business, Dallas, Texas 1948-49
- Director of Christian Education, Lawton, Oklahoma and Winfield, Kansas 1953-54, 1957-58
- Director of Religious Life, Southwestern College, Winfield, 1958-59
- Director, Commission on Archives and History, Kansas West Conference, 1960-1978
- Co-taught January term, Southwestern College 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973
- Part-time English teacher, Jo Gakuin Junior High School, Hiroshima, 1971-72; Kitakyushu University, 1997-98
- Executive Director, Pi Gamma Mu, International Honor Society in Social Science, 1976-1996
PUBLICATIONS
- "Monkey Trial-Kansas Style," Methodist History, July 1976
- "Granville Lowther--Heretic or Herald?" with Phil Chastain, Kansas History, Fall 1978
HONORS
- Valedictorian, Eagleville High School, Eagleville, Missouri
- Outstanding Student Award Central Methodist College, 1947
- Honor Societies: Pi Gamma Mu, Sigma Epsilon Pi, Gamma Sigma Pi
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
- Tutoring at Winfield High School, Whitter and Irving Elementary Schools; also English as a Second Language in Japan and Winfield, KS
- Volunteer and Board Member of the Cowley County Historical Society and Museum