Background
Mason, Thomas Richard was born on April 17, 1930 in Trinidad, Colorado, United States. Son of Abraham Gartin and Ethel Arlene (Jackson) Mason.
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Mason, Thomas Richard was born on April 17, 1930 in Trinidad, Colorado, United States. Son of Abraham Gartin and Ethel Arlene (Jackson) Mason.
AB magna cum laude, University Colorado, 1952. Master of Arts, 1955. Postgraduate, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1952—1953.
Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1963.
News writer, announcer Station KBOL, Boulder, Colorado, 1948—1953. Assistant to president University Colorado, 1955—1956, director institutional research, 1968—1972. Planning officer, 1959—1964.
Director planning University Rochester, New York, 1964—1968. Director special studies, planning Denver, 1972—1974. Director special studies Boulder, 1975—1976.
President MIRA Inc., Minneapolis, from 1977.
Member of Democratic Farm Labor Party, World Futures Society, Society College and University Planning, Assn.Instl. Research (president 1969-1970), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Margaret Marie Emma Bartram, August 11, 1950 (divorced 1979). Married Mary Lucille Coghlan, August 2, 1980.