Smokejumper Obituary: Gray, Albert L. (Cave Junction 1945)

Authors

National Smokejumper Association

Files

Obituary

Professor emeritus Gray died August 5, 2005, in Berea, Ohio. Albert was a CPS-103 jumper during WWII and was active throughout his life in civil rights, nonviolence and poverty problems in the U.S. and Third World. He was a professor of economics at Baldwin-Wallace University for 27 years and also taught at Drexel, Smith College and Rust College. Even after mandatory retirement age of 70, Albert continued to teach one term a year. Albert graduated from Drexel University, received his master's from Boston University and a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania. In an earlier issue of Smokejumper magazine, Albert told of the time in August 1945, when he explained what an Atomic Bomb was to the crew at Cave Junction. He had eight fire jumps during the 1945 season at CJ. Albert also taught at American University in Cairo, Egypt, and in Nigeria. In retirement he and wife volunteered to teach at two African-American schools in the south: Philander Smith College in Little Rock, AR, and Rust College in MS.

Identifier

Gray_Albert-L_Cave-Junction_1945

Publication Date

January 2006

Keywords

Smokejumping; Smokejumpers -- United States; National Smokejumper Association; Wildfire fighters; Obituaries

Disciplines

Forest Management

Recommended Citation

National Smokejumper Association, "Smokejumper Obituary: Gray, Albert L. (Cave Junction 1945)" (2006). Smokejumper Obituaries. 1105.
https://dc.ewu.edu/smokejumper_bios/1105