Loren Charles Gruber

Background

Gruber, Loren Charles was born on September 17, 1941 in Carroll, Iowa, United States. Son of Maurice Deputy and Harriett Helen (Brynteson) Gruber.

Education

Bachelor, Simpson College, 1963; Master of Arts, Western Reserve U., 1964; Doctor of Philosophy, U. Denver, 1972.

Career

English instructor, Grove City (Pennsylvania) College, 1964-1966; English instructor, Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa., 1966-1969; teaching assistant, U. Denver, 1968-1969; teaching fellow, U. Denver, 1969-1970; from assistant to associate professor, Simpson College, Indianola, 1970-1982; chief executive consultant, Stanley, Barber, Southard, Brown and Associations, San Diego, 1982-1983; account executive, Station KJEM-AM and K-95-FM, Bentonville, Arkansas, 1983-1987; manager, news director, Station KQIS-FM, Clarinda, Iowa., 1987-1989; assistant Professor of English, N.W. Missouri State University, Maryville, 1989-1993; interim director composition, N.W. Missouri State University, Maryville, 1992-1993; Professor of English and mass committee, Missouri Valley College, Marshall, since 1993; chair mass committee, Missouri Valley College, Marshall, 1995-1998; chair English department, Missouri Valley College, Marshall, 1996-1998; dean division arts and humanities, Missouri Valley College, Marshall, since 1998. Reviewer Choice, Middletown, Connecticut, 1973-1982.

Achievements

• Loren Charles Gruber has been listed as a notable English language educator, writer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Founding president Indianola Writers Workshop, 1972. Secretary Indianola Fine Arts Commission, 1973. State delegate Iowa Republican Party Convention, Des Moines, 1976, 80, 88.

Honorary member 4-H, Page County, Iowa, 1988. Board directors Writers Hall of Fame, 1995-1998. Founder Mid-Missouri chapter Writers' Hall of Fame, 1996-1998.

Member Medieval Academy American (life, member endowment campaign committee 1995-1996), Society for Advancement Scandinavian Studies (life), Society for New Lang.Study (executive secretary 1973-1982, 91-92), Missouri Writers Guild (board directors since 1992, editor News 1992-1994, 2nd vice president 1993-1994, 1st vice president 1994-1995, president 1995-1996), Society Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, Iowa Poetry Association (president 1980-1982, 88-92), Bentonville/Bella Vista Arkansas Kiwanis (president 1985-1986, lieutenant governor's award 1986, Merit and Special award 1986), Clarinda Iowa Rotary (president pro-tem 1989), Missouri Writers' Guild (Marshall chapter, charter), Kiwanis.

Interests

• Avocations: fishing, hunting, ornithology, traveling.

Connections

Married Irene Ellen Olson, March 5, 1967 (divorced 1980). Children: Elizabeth Gruber Shinall, Stephen, Margaret. Married Meredith Adair Crellin, January 22, 1983.

Father:

Maurice Deputy Gruber

Mother:

Harriett Helen (Brynteson) Gruber

Spouse:

Irene Ellen Olson

Spouse:

Meredith Adair Crellin

child:

Stephen Gruber

child:

Elizabeth Gruber Shinall Gruber

child:

Margaret Gruber