John Winchell Riley

Background

Riley, John Winchell was born on June 10, 1908 in Brunswick, Maine, United States. Son of John Winchell and Marjorie Webster (Prince) Riley.

Education

AB, Bowdoin College, 1930; Doctor of Laws, Bowdoin College, 1972; Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1933; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1936.

Career

Member of faculty, Marietta College, 1933-1935; member of faculty, Wellesley College, 1935-1937; member of faculty, Douglass College, 1937-1945; member of faculty, Rutgers University, 1945-1960; professor sociology, department chairman, Rutgers University, 1945-1960; vice-president, director social research, Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, New York City, 1960-1968; vice president corporation relations, Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, New York City, since 1968; senior vice president corporation relations, Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, New York City, 1968-1972; senior vice president social research, Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, New York City, 1972-1973; consultant, Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, New York City, since 1973. Member of faculty Harvard University, 1955. Consultant Market Research Company American, 1940-1945, Columbia Broadcasting Company, 1945-1950, Ford Motor Company, 1965, American Council Life Insurance, 1973-1990, World Health Organization, since 1984, International Federation Aging, since 1983, Scripps Foundation, since 1987, Max Planck, 1989, numerous others.

Senior consultant Matthew Greenwald & Associations., since 1990, Project Age and Structural Change National Institute Aging, since 1994. Visiting scholar Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Science, 1978-1979. Member of advisory board Carnegie Corporation Aging Society project, since 1982, University of Michigan Institute Gerontology, since 1987, University of Southern California Intergenerational Project, 1990.

Lecturer in field.

Achievements

• John Winchell Riley has been listed as a noteworthy Consulting sociologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • Reds Take a City: Communist Occupation of Seoul, with Eyewitness Accounts

    (Book by Riley, John W., Schramm, Wilbur)

  • The corporation and its publics; essays on the corporate image.
  • the Corporation and its publics
  • Student Looks At His Teacher
  • The Reds take a city;: The Communist occupation of Seoul, with eyewitness accounts

Membership

Former trustee American Foundation Blind, Institute Education Development, National Urban League, Boethner Research Institute. Trustee Industrywide Network Social Rural andRural Efforts. Member capital campaign committee Bowdoin College, 1984.

Research.adv. board The American College, since 1989. With Office of War Information, Psychological Warfare Division, Army of the United States, 1944, Far Eastern Research Group, United States Air Force, 1950-1951. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Member Sociological Research Association (president 1964-1965), Oliver Wendall Holmes Association (former trustee), American Sociological Association (secretary 1950-1955, Distinguished Career award for practice 1983), Eastern Social Society, OsborneAssn. (former trustee), American Association Public Opinion Research (president 1961-1962, Distinguished Career award 1983), Market Research Council, American Association International Aging (former trustee), American Sociological Foundation (incorporator, member of advisory committee since 1987), District of Columbia Sociological Society (co-president 1984-1985).

Connections

Married Matilda White, June 19, 1931. Children: John Winchell III, Lucy Ellen.

Father:

John Winchell Riley

Mother:

Marjorie Webster (Prince) Riley

Spouse:

Matilda White

child:

John Winchell III Riley

child:

Lucy Ellen Riley