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Loren D. Reid (26 August 1905 - 25 December 2014) was a communication professor and an author. In addition to shorter terms of service with other universities, he had a 31-year career at the University of Missouri, including two terms as chair of the Department of Communication. He served in a number of professional organizations related to speech and communicating, including standing as the 43rd president of the National Communication Association.〔 He lived to 109 years of age, making him a centenarian.〔 == Personal life and education == Born in 1905 in Gilman City, Missouri, Loren Reid was the son of Gilman City ''Guide ''editor Dudley Reid and his wife Josephine.〔 As a youth, Reid worked at his father's paper, both operating the linotype machine and writing up his interviews with travelers. After his parents took over the Osceola, Iowa paper ''Tribune ''in 1921, they relocated.〔〔 Reid graduated from Osceola High School in 1922 and entered Grinell College, receiving degrees in history and English in 1927. While there, he met Augusta "Gus" Towne who would later become his wife and herself a professor, of English.〔 Towne and Reid wed in 1930, during their studies at the University of Iowa. In 1932, Reid graduated from UoI with one of the first doctoral degrees awarded in the field of speech in the United States.〔〔 Gus Reid died in 2009, herself a centenarian at 102 years old.〔 Reid died at age 109 on Christmas Day, 2014.〔 The couple were survived by their four children, 15 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren and 3 great-great-grandchildren.〔 ==Teaching career== Reid began teaching English after receiving his undergraduate degree in a response to an invitation from a high school in Vermillion, South Dakota.〔 Following his PhD pursuit in Iowa, he relocated to Kansas City, serving at Westport High School for two years as the head of its department of speech.〔 In 1935, he started a four year term in the English Department of the University of Missouri, where he would spend the bulk of his career. After breaking for five years to serve as an assistant and then associate professor of speech at Syracuse University, Reid returned to serve on the faculty of the new Department of Speech and Dramatic Art (now Department of Communication) at the University of Missouri. From 1946 to 1951, Reid served as department chair, a service he repeated from 1965 to 1966. During his time at the University of Missouri, Reid took occasional visiting professorships at other schools. He served at the University of California in the summer of 1947, at the University of Maryland, Overseas Division in 1952-53, at Louisiana State University and San Diego State College in 1954, at the University of Hawaii in 1957 and the University of Iowa in 1958.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Loren Reid」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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