Gladys Godfrey MacKay

Background

MacKay, Gladys Godfrey was born on September 17, 1915 in Buffalo, New York, United States. Daughter of Joseph Edwin and Hazel Winifred (Brown) Godfrey.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Cornell Univercity, 1936; Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1940; postgraduate, Case Western Reserve U., Cleveland, 1948-1950.

Career

Assistant home demonstration agent, Cornell Univercity, New York, 1936-1938; teacher rural vocational home economics, Consolidated Schools, Gilbertsville, New York, 1938-1939; junior/senior high school home economics teacher, City Public School, Peekskill, New York, 1940-1942; home economics instructor, Mather College/Cleveland College, Western Reserve U., Cleveland, 1946-1948; marriage counselor/probation officer, Lucas County Ct of Domestic Rels., Toledo, 1950-1951; teacher/psychologist, speaker's bureau, Family Health Association and Center School of Practical Nursing, Cleveland, 1951-1954. Representative to national consumer-retailer county for American Association of University Women, American Studies Association, New York City, 1940-1942. Member committee setting textile color-fastness Studies. for Federal Trade Commission, American Studies Association, 1941.

Member task force to develop health education curriculum, Cleveland Heights Board of Education, Ohio, 1967-1969. Member of advisory board Children's Superior vena cava syndrome, Cleveland, 1963-1965. Member mental health committee Federation for Cmty.

Planning, Cleveland, 1977-1978, others.

Achievements

• Gladys Godfrey MacKay has been listed as a noteworthy Adult education educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Active Council on World Affairs, Cleveland, 1960-1976. Presenter Cleveland Growth Association, 1964, Ohio Citizen's Council, Columbus, 1974-1977, others. Presenter Metropolitan Health Planning Corporation, Cleveland, 1978.

Lieutenant United States Naval Reserve, 1942-1946, World War World War II. Member American Association of University Women (life), Case Western Reserve University Women's Club (Executive Board), Cleveland Academy of Medicine Auxiliary, Pi Lambda Theta.

Interests

• Avocations: travel, reading, creative thinking.

Connections

Married James Albert MacKay, July 11, 1944 (wid. June 1997); children: Michael Paul, Cynthia Louise.

Father:

Joseph Edwin Godfrey

Mother:

Hazel Winifred (Brown) Godfrey

Spouse:

James Albert MacKay

child:

Cynthia Louise MacKay

child:

Michael Paul MacKay