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Deecy Gray is the former President of D.C. Stephens Ltd., a public relations firm in Washington, D.C. Her opinion column
appeared on the editorial page of major newspapers throughout the
United States. Prior to that, Mrs. Gray was senior Vice-President
for Government and International Relations at a worldwide architectural
and engineering firm, Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum. She worked
as a legislative and administrative assistant for Congressman William
Clay and was on the faculty of the Community College system in St.
Louis.
She has received grants to do studies of social
and government planning in three African countries; conducted cross-cultural
analysis of metropolitan problems in eight western and eastern European
capitals; and investigated problems relating to urban decay in the
United States and overseas.
She has served on several Congressional and Presidential
Boards. In 1979, she was appointed to a special task force to study
the role of women in the military. In 1980, she was appointed to
the Board of Governors of the United Services Organization. In the
1980’s she received an award for being one of the outstanding
women in business from the Women’s Equity Action League. In
1990, President Bush appointed her to the U.S. Delegation to the
United Nations on the Status of Women. In 1999, she was named to
the U.S. Women’s Progress Commemoration Commission by the
Speaker of the House of Representatives. In 2000, Governor Gilmore
of Virginia appointed her to the Board of Governors of George Mason
University, where she has since been elected a member of the Executive
Committee and an Officer.
In the public policy arena, Mrs. Gray is Vice President and a Director of the Foundation for Research in Economics and the Environment (FREE). She serves on the Board of Frontiers of Freedom, which specializes in international/defense problems and environmental problem solving. She also serves on the
Advisory Board of the Independent Women’s Forum and the National
Advisory Council on the Study of the Presidency. For a number of
years she was active on the Board of Citizens for a Sound Economy.
In business, she was on the Boards of the National Philanthropic
Trust, Computech, Inc., Dubuque Packing Company (DUPACO), and Adams
National Bank. Civically, she has served on the board of the National Shakespeare Theater, the Blair House (the President's guest quarters for visiting heads of state), the Hearing and Speech Association of Washington, D.C., and the Virginia Morris Kincaid Foundation.
She received her Bachelor of Arts from Marymount
College in Tarrytown, NY and her Master of Arts from St. Louis University. A fifth generation Missourian she returns to
St. Louis frequently. Her hobbies include tennis, golf and bridge.
Her husband was the late Burton Gray of North Carolina.
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Ms.
Deecy Stephens Gray, President 