DR GREGORY R ANRIG – CLASS OF 1953

Anrig, Gregory Richard, Dr. of Princeton, New Jersey

1932 – 1993

Dr. Anrig received both a Master of Arts and a Doctoral Degree from Harvard University. During his career he was a lieutenant in the U.S. Army, a teacher, a principal, and a public school superintendent.

He served for eight years as the commissioner of education for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

In 1981, he was named president of the Educational Testing Service, the world's largest private educational testing organization (designed what is now known as the S.A.T.) – reprinted by the WMU Alumni Association.

PRINCETON BOROUGH, N.J. (AP) _ Gregory R. Anrig, president of the Educational Testing Service, which administers college entrance exams, died of cancer at The Medical Center at Princeton Sunday. He was 61.

Anrig was to retire next month after 12 years as president of ETS, which gives the Scholastic Aptitude Test, Graduate Record Exam and other tests.

Anrig was credited with removing racial and gender bias from the tests used for admission to many U.S. colleges, and before joining ETS he worked to bring about integrated schools around the nation.