Flory, Margaret

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1914 May 13 Born in Wauseon, Ohio. 1936 B.A. in English, Ohio University, Athens. 1938 M.A. in Speech and Drama, Ohio University. 1939 40 Taught at Alabama State College for Women, organized Presbyterian Association. 1940 44 Director of the Westminster Foundation, Ohio University. 1940 42 Took summer courses at Union Theological Seminary. 1944 Commissioned as a missionary to China; studied Chinese language at UC Berkeley. 1944 50 Served as Eastern Area Secretary for Women's Work, United Presbyterian Church USA (UPCUSA) Foreign Mission Board. 1948 Traveled to Asia: taught at Tokyo Woman's Christian College, visited Korea, the Philippines and China. 1949 Joined Church of the Master in New York City; later became the first white elder. 1951 58 Director, Office of Student Work, UPCUSA (renamed Student World Relations in 1958). 1951 Assigned responsibility for Overseas Scholarship Program 1952 53 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. 1953 Chaired Youth Emphasis Year, UPCUSA Board of Foreign Missions. 1953 Initiated Junior Year Abroad Program. 1955 Chaired Planning Committee for 17th SVM (CWM) Quadrennial. 1958 68 Director, Office of Student World Relations. 1959 Chaired Planning Committee for 18th SVM (CWM) Quadrennial. 1960 Initiated Frontier Internship in Missions Program. 1960 68 Chaired WSCF Committee on Foreign Students. 1963 64 Initiated International Study Fellowship on the University Ministry at Princeton Seminary (WSCF). 1966 72 Chaired UPCUSA Committee on Internationalization of Mission; developed official policy for COEMAR. 1966 80+ Executive Secretary, Cooperating Committee for Tokyo Woman's Christian University. 1967 73 Chaired WSCF New Headquarters Committee. 1968 Sabbatical: study at Ecumenical Center in Bossey, Switzerland and CIDOC in Cuernavaca, Mexico. 1969 71 Special Assignment: New Dimensions in Mission, developing experimental missions programs (Presbyterian bureaucracy restructured). 1970 Initiated Bi-National Service Program. 1970 Initiated Politics and Theology Project. 1971 Initiated Transnational Consultations. 1971 1990 President, North American Trustees of the World Christian Student Federation 1972 1977 Associate for Human Resources Planning, Ministries Through People in Mission Unit of the Program Agency, UPCUSA. 1974 Oversaw transition of Frontier Internship Program to international administration. 1975 86 Association of Christians for Women's Education and Development in Asia, Asian Women's Institute 1976 Traveled to China. 1977 80 Associate for Ecumenical Patterns of Sharing, Ministries Through People in Mission Unit of the Program Agency, UPCUSA. 1978 82 Directed Education for Mission: Involvement for Mission Program (UPCUSA) 1979 Traveled to Cuba; taught ESL to church leaders. 1980 Retired from PCUSA National Staff. 1981 Minister in Residence, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, Cal. 1981 88 Ecumenical Resource Person in Residence, Gilmor-Sloane House, Stony Point Center, New York. 1982 Led tour to China. 1988 2009 Remained active in retirement, including writing the books noted below. See Flory's autobiographical writings for more information 2004 May Margaret's 90th birthday was celebrated by a party at Riverside Church, NY and a weekend symposium. 2009 Oct 1 Died in North Carolina

From the guide to the Margaret Flory Papers, 1929-2009, (Yale University Divinity School Library)

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