Audrey Nesbitt Gray

Background

Gray, Audrey Nesbitt was born on February 5, 1920 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States. Daughter of Walter Hale and Hazel Violet (Wriglesworth) Nesbitt.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Western Michigan University, 1943.

Career

Teacher, Three Rivers (Michigan) Public Schools, 1943-1945; teacher music, Schoolcraft (Michigan) Public Schools, 1945-1946; teacher, Comstock (Michigan) Public Schools, 1963-1983; retired, Comstock (Michigan) Public Schools, 1983. Board directors Michigan In Action for Drug Free Youth. Member consultant team Drug Education Curriculum Guide, 1971, advising committee Governor Conference Drug Free Schools and Communities, 1990, steering committee for Medical, Ednl., Legal Law Enforcement, State Bar Michigan, since 1991, Mich alliance Drug Free Schools and Communities, 1990-1991.

Innovator, director, advisor community story hour program Juvenile Detention Facilities, Michigan, 1993.

Achievements

• Audrey Nesbitt Gray has been listed as a noteworthy elementary school educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Forum for Kalamazoo County, since 1986, Greater Kalamazoo Consortium, since 1990. Member steering committee National Issues Forum, Kalamazoo, since 1989. Board directors Kalamazoo Area Families in Action, 1986-1987.

Member State Bar of Michigan Task Force on Substance Abuse, since 1991. Director Community Story Hour Program, Kalamazoo County Juv. Home, since 1993. Member American Association of University Women, American Lawyers Auxiliary (chair drug awareness committee since 1990, council state affiliates 1989-1990, 91—, Second vice president, 1991, president, 1993), Governor's Conference on Drug Free Schools and Communities (advisory member), Michigan Lawyers Auxiliary (president 1987-1988, drug awareness chair, 1989, co-chair statewide No Drug Use rally 1989), Kalamazoo Lawyers Auxiliary (president, 1970-1971, 88-89).

Interests

• Avocations: 18th Century antiques, genealogy, music, gardening.

Connections

Married Llewellyn Wallace Gray, April 22, 1943. Children: Susan Nesbitt Moffitt, Deborah Llewellyn Gray-Olker, Gretchen Clarke Shannon.

Father:

Walter Hale Nesbitt

Mother:

Hazel Violet (Wriglesworth) Nesbitt

Spouse:

Llewellyn Wallace Gray

child:

Susan Nesbitt Moffitt Gray

child:

Deborah Llewellyn Gray-Olker Gray

child:

Gretchen Clarke Shannon Gray