1914 May 13Born in Wauseon, Ohio.1936B.A. in English, Ohio University, Athens.1938M.A. in Speech and Drama, Ohio University.193940Taught at Alabama State
College for Women, organized Presbyterian Association.194044Director of the Westminster Foundation, Ohio
University.194042Took
summer courses at Union Theological Seminary.1944Commissioned as a missionary to China; studied Chinese language at UC
Berkeley.194450Served as
Eastern Area Secretary for Women's Work, United Presbyterian Church USA
(UPCUSA) Foreign Mission Board.1948Traveled to
Asia: taught at Tokyo Woman's Christian College, visited Korea, the Philippines
and China.1949Joined Church
of the Master in New York City; later became the first white elder.195158Director, Office of
Student Work, UPCUSA (renamed Student World Relations in 1958).1951Assigned responsibility for
Overseas Scholarship Program195253 Nov.
Around-the-world trip for Youth Emphasis Year of Presbyterian Board of Foreign
Missions (Japan, Hong Kong, Philippines, Thailand, India, Pakistan, Syria,
Lebanon, Jordan, Iran, Iraq, Paris, Amsterdam, Switzerland); attended General
Assembly of WSCF in Nasrapur, India.1953Chaired Youth Emphasis Year, UPCUSA Board of Foreign Missions.1953Initiated Junior Year Abroad
Program.1955Chaired
Planning Committee for 17th SVM (CWM) Quadrennial.195868Director, Office of Student World Relations.1959Chaired Planning Committee
for 18th SVM (CWM) Quadrennial.1960Initiated
Frontier Internship in Missions Program.196068Chaired WSCF Committee on Foreign Students.196364Initiated International Study Fellowship on the University
Ministry at Princeton Seminary (WSCF).196672Chaired UPCUSA Committee on Internationalization of Mission; developed
official policy for COEMAR.196680+Executive
Secretary, Cooperating Committee for Tokyo Woman's Christian
University.196773Chaired
WSCF New Headquarters Committee.1968Sabbatical:
study at Ecumenical Center in Bossey, Switzerland and CIDOC in Cuernavaca,
Mexico.196971Special
Assignment: New Dimensions in Mission, developing experimental missions
programs (Presbyterian bureaucracy restructured).1970Initiated Bi-National Service Program.1970Initiated Politics and Theology Project.1971Initiated Transnational Consultations.19711990President, North American Trustees of the World Christian
Student Federation19721977Associate for Human Resources Planning, Ministries Through People in
Mission Unit of the Program Agency, UPCUSA.1974Oversaw transition of Frontier Internship Program to international
administration.197586Association of Christians for Women's Education and Development in Asia,
Asian Women's Institute1976Traveled to
China.197780Associate
for Ecumenical Patterns of Sharing, Ministries Through People in Mission Unit
of the Program Agency, UPCUSA.197882Directed
Education for Mission: Involvement for Mission Program (UPCUSA)1979Traveled to Cuba; taught ESL
to church leaders.1980Retired from
PCUSA National Staff.1981Minister in
Residence, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, Cal.198188Ecumenical Resource Person in Residence, Gilmor-Sloane House,
Stony Point Center, New York.1982Led tour to
China.19882009Remained
active in retirement, including writing the books noted below. See Flory's
autobiographical writings for more information2004 MayMargaret's 90th birthday was celebrated by a party at Riverside Church,
NY and a weekend symposium.2009 Oct 1Died in
North CarolinaFrom the guide to the Margaret Flory Papers, 1929-2009, (Yale University Divinity School Library)