Ray Ward was an arena manager, consultant, and the sixty-second president of the International Association of Assembly Managers (IAAM). Ward was elected and served as president of IAAM from 1988 to 1989. He was the first and only president to graduate from the IAAM School for Public Facility Management at Oglebay in Wheeling, West Virginia, which began in 1987. During his time as president, Ward expanded IAAM's international involvement into England. Ward served as an arena manager for the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, also known as the McAfee coliseum, which opened in 1966. Drawing on his arena management experience he joined with Thomas P. Parkinson, and William Cunningham to consult for other arenas around the country.
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From the guide to the Ray Ward Collection AR: 97-252., 1966-1997, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History The University of Texas at Austin)
