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Joe Franko
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From: Daniel A. Seeger [DSeeger@afsc.org]
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 1:11 PM
Subject: Robert W. (Bob) Gray

To Members of the AFSC Community,

I regret to have to report to you the death of Robert W. (Bob) Gray. He was almost 92 years old.

Bob first became involved with AFSC as a volunteer in the Civilian Public Service Camps operated by AFSC for conscientious objectors during World War II. As a CPSer Bob worked for the U.S. Forest Service, the Soil Conservation Service and the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development.

At the end of the War Bob joined the AFSC staff. He bailed clothes to be used in our overseas relief effort, he was Director of the Work and Study Program, Director of our Relief and Rehabilitation Project in South Korea, Director of our Relief and Development Project in Orissa, India, Associate Executive Secretary of the Pacific Southwest Regional Office, Executive Secretary of the Pacific Southwest Regional Office, and Associate Executive Secretary at the central office here in Philadelphia.

He is survived by his wife, Gladys Corkrum Gray, and by three daughters, Roberta, Janet and Marie. Gladys and Bob have eight grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Gladys and their daughters came with Bob, of course, when he served in Korea and India.

Bob was a mentor to me when I first joined AFSC, and later Bob, Gladys and I traveled together visiting sites of AFSC work on the continent of Africa. We have been good friends for many years.

Bob was active in many Friends organizations besides the AFSC, including California Yearly Meeting, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Friends World Committee for Consultation, Pendle Hill, Medford Leas and the Elizabeth Haddon Housing Corporation.

Notes can be sent to Gladys Gray at 1 Medford Leas Way, Medford, New Jersey 08055.

I will let local people know about a Memorial Meeting once one is scheduled.

Dan

Daniel A. Seeger
Interim General Secretary
American Friends Service Committee
1501 Cherry Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102

(215) 241-7111

dseeger@afsc.org

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