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After graduating from Quincy High in 1967, Gay attended Burlington Junior College. Gay was a strong advocate for the humane care and use of animals in research, testing, and teaching. In addition to holding management positions at a daily newspaper, he served as an officer in the Naval Reserve and worked in public affairs staff positions for the U.S.
Navy on the West Coast and in the Far East. He retired from the Naval Reserve with the rank of commander. What's more, he and Frank were actually lovers for some time prior to the events of The Last of Us.
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Active in organized veterinary medicine, he was a past president of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science and District of Columbia VMA and was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Gay holds a Masters of Arts degree from the University of Redlands, Redlands, Ca. and a Bachelors of Journalism degree from the University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo.
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Bill Gay was commissioned as an ensign in the Navy in 1968 upon graduation from the University of Missouri Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps. Gay wound up the night with 34 points. Dr. Gay later took over directorship of extramural programs, serving in that capacity until his appointment in 1980 as director of the NIH-DRR Animal Resources Program.
William (Bill) Gay, AALAS National President (1968) and National Capital Area Branch President (1962), was a remarkable man who during the course of his life and career made many important seminal contributions in the field of laboratory animal science.
A diplomate of the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine, he was director of the National Institutes of Health Division of Research Resources’ Animal Resources Program prior to retirement in 1988.
As director of the program, he administered the activities of the NIH’s Regional Primate Research Centers and the laboratory animal sciences program, including upgrading institutional animal resources, supporting facilities engaged in the diagnosis and control of animal disease, training specialists in laboratory animal science, and developing colonies of laboratory animal models.
Following his retirement from the NIH, Dr.
Gay served as a veterinary consultant with various biotechnology organizations in the United States. He went on to serve as chief of the branch’s Animal Hospital Section in 1955, was named assistant chief of the branch in 1962, and was appointed chief of the branch in 1967.
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He holds an Accreditation in Public Relations and in 2014 was inducted into the Public Relations Society of America’s College of Fellows, to which about 350 senior PRSA members nationwide belong.
The LST existed for 1,046 days and landed soldiers and Marines with their equipment at Kiska, Makin, Kwajalein, Hollandia, Guam, Leyte, and Okinawa. He was chief engineer and supply officer aboard the USS Portage (PCE 902) in Milwaukee, Wi. and then transferred to the carrier USS Ticonderoga (CVS 14) where he was Auxiliaries’ Division Officer and later Assistant Damage Control officer.
He was involved with the early stages of the NIAID’s HIV/AIDS research program, overseeing the evolution and growth of the NIH’s involvement in AIDS research. Imperial Valley Alive is a quarterly publication. But it wasn't enough, as Springfield won by the final of 70-68 in double overtime. He later attended Bradley University where he was a main stay for the Braves, earning varsity letters in basketball both years.
In 1954, Dr. Gay began his career with the NIH in its Division of Research Services’ Laboratory Aids Branch. The story is about its crew that began service aboard LST 479 as a group of very inexperienced amateurs.
Gay was a reporter, editor and finally general manager for the Imperial Valley Press, the daily newspaper in Imperial County of California from 1972 to 1997.
A two sport letter man in the mid 1960's, Gay collected a total of five varsity letters for his work in track and field and on the hard court.
Joel (Troy Baker) tries to call in a few favors from Bill by asking him to put together a working car so he and Ellie (Ashley Johnson) can travel west.