Background
Elwood Murray was born in 1897 and raised on a farm near Hastings, Nebraska.
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Elwood Murray
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Education
In 1924 in Education and Speech at the University of Iowa and Doctor of Philosophy in Speech and Psychology from the University of Iowa in 1931.
Career
He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1922 from Hastings College, with majors in English and American History and received his Master of Arts In 1931 Murray began teaching Speech at the University of Denver. From 1932 until his retirement in 1962 he directed the School of Speech at the University. In 1949 he initiated the founding of the National Society for the Study of Communication, and served as its president in 1953.
He served as director of the Institute of General Semantics from 1967-1969.
Membership
End 1950s he was among the first members of the Society for General Systems Research.
