Ronald John Grele

Background

Grele, Ronald John was born on June 8, 1934 in Naugatuck, Connecticut, United States. Son of John R. and Martha Marion (Painter) Grele.

Education

Bachelor, University Connecticut, 1958. Master of Arts, University Connecticut, 1959. Doctor of Philosophy, Rutgers University, 1971.

Career

Instructor, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, 1964-1965; assistant professor, Long Beach (California) State College, 1966-1969; assistant professor, Kingsborough Community College, New York City, 1969-1971; assistant director, Ford Foundation Oral History Project, New York City, 1971-1975; assistant professor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1975-1976; oral history director, New Jersey History Commission, Trenton, 1976-1978; research director, New Jersey History Commission, Trenton, 1978-1981; director, University of California at Los Angeles Oral History Program, 1981-1982; director, Columbia University Oral History Research Office, New York City, since 1982. Archivist, interviewer John F. Kennedy Oral History Project, 1965-1966;Fulbright professor of University Indonesia, Jakarta, 1976. Adjunct assistant professor of history, New York University, 1978-1981.

Visiting distinguished professor University of California, Irvine, 1988. Adjunct associate professor Columbia University, since 1982. Chairman Organisation American Historians Committee on Bibliography & Research Needs, 1981-1983.

Achievements

• Ronald John Grele has been listed as a noteworthy Historian, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • Envelopes of Sound: Six Practitioners Discuss the Method, Theory, and Practice of Oral History and Oral Testimony

Membership

Board of directors Broadway Theater Institute, since 1987. Member Oral History Association (program chairman 13th Annual Colloquium 1978, member county 1978-1979, 81-84, vice president 1986-1987, president 1987-1988), National Council Public.History (board directors 1993-1996).

Connections

Married Gaile Dorothy Anderson, June 10, 1959 (divorced 1982). Children: John R., Michael Anderson, Eric Edward, Christine Thais.

Father:

John R. Grele

Mother:

Martha Marion (Painter) Grele

Spouse:

Gaile Dorothy Anderson

child:

Eric Edward Grele

child:

John R. Grele

child:

Christine Thais Grele

child:

Michael Anderson Grele