Raymond Trayer

Raymond Trayer worked on the farm and with the work program from the fall of 1946 to the spring of 1951.

Biography shared in College bulletin in 1949, "Graduate assistant, Springfield College, Social Science Division, 1940-1941; Pendle Hill Graduate School, summer session, 1941. Civilian Public Service under American Friends Service Committee, 1941-1945; Hershey Industrial School, 1945-1946; Pendle Hill, 1946. Black Mountain College since 1946."

Shared in an obituary published on Legacy.com,

Ray, a Quaker since 1946, was a member of the Lancaster Society of Friends. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from F&M in 1940 and married Dorothy Coldren of Lancaster on June 21, 1941.

During WWII, Ray, a conscientious objector, served in a NH mental hospital and at CPS camps in NY, NC and IA. Afterwards, he and Dottie were houseparents at the Milton Hershey School. Both were at Pendle Hill several times, he as gardener and Dottie as secretary to Anna Brinton.

From 1946-51, at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, Ray taught and managed the college farm. In 1951 he took over farm operations for Earlham College and was a faculty member. He developed a herringbone milking system for Chore Boy.

Ray and Dottie and their five children moved to Hershey in 1960 where Ray was account supervisor and manager for the PA Farmers Assoc. until he retired in 1978.

Relationships

Wife: Dorothy Trayer