Appointment of W. Grey Terry as Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of the Presidential Advance Office

The President today announced the appointment of W. Grey Terry as Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of the Presidential Advance Office.

Mr. Terry first joined the Presidential Advance Office in October 1982 as Deputy Director for Administration, after initially serving as a volunteer advance person during Ronald Reagan's 1980 Presidential campaign and during the first 20 months of the administration. Mr. Terry left the White House in 1985 and, after a period of Senior Executive Service at the Commerce Department's Office of World's Fairs and International Expositions, returned to the Presidential Advance Office as Deputy Director in February 1986. Prior to 1980, Mr. Terry was a financial analyst with the General Motors Corp. in New York City. Between 1968-1972, he served in the U.S. Navy as a ship's navigator and naval program manager in Thailand.

Mr. Terry, who holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a master's degree in international management from the American Graduate School in Glendale, AZ, currently resides in Washington, DC. He was born January 8, 1944, in Little Rock, AR.