Lois Gray: Sixty Years of Service and Leadership to ILR
In February, we met with Lois Gray in ILR's New York City office to capture on tape the wisdom and experience Lois acquired over the span of her 60 years of service and leadership to ILR. Lois was the first employee of ILR Extension, signing on as director of our Buffalo, New York, office in 1946. In 1956, Lois moved to New York City to become director of that office, and later became associate dean and director of the Extension Division in 1976. Lois is the Jean McKelvey-Alice Grant Professor Emerita of Labor-Management Relations, a chair that is awarded to a professor active in both the extension and resident divisions of ILR. Her insights and wealth of experience are a fitting kick-off to ILR’s celebration of its outreach activities.
Interview
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- Introduction with Deans Susanne Bruyère and Harry Katz (2:18)
- Lois at Park College in Missouri (0:35)
- "Having a Ph.D. influenced my work" (1:10)
- Early career: Field examiner for the NLRB (1:24)
- "Why don't you come to work with us?" — Jean McKelvey (1:10)
- "I made contacts with labor and management" (1:17)
- "We looked for programs which had maximum impact" (1:16)
- "It was a period of testing and combat" (1:43)
- Lois moves to New York City (1:13)
- "My goal was to make the program more visible" (1:40)
- Women and the world of work (1:43)
- Labor-management cooperation (1:43)
- International programs (2:52)
- Credit courses for trade unionists (2:26)
- "We began to look abroad" (1:14)
- The state of organized labor today (2:13)
- "The challenge is to organize the unorganized" (2:00)
- Outreach activities of the Extension Division (1:31)
- "Highlight of my time with the Extension Division" (2:08)
- The first McKelvey-Grant Professor of Industrial Relations (1:53)
- Current work: A study of the film industry in New York City (0:54)
- The Harry Van Arsdale Internship Program (1:24)
- Edmund Ezra Day and the founding of the ILR School (0:52)
Producer: Robert Julian
Technical Production: Insights International
