Flory, Margaret

• 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)