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Ray Fellows

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Ray E. Fellows, Jr.

Department Chair
Colonel U.S.A.F Retired
Assistant Professor Business Management

Education:
United States Air Force Academy, 1967 (Mathematics)
Purdue University, Krannert School of Management, 1976 (Management)

Ray was born in Kentucky and raised on a family farm in southern Indiana. He grew up in a Christian home with four brothers and two sisters. Church, school, farm work and family reunions highlighted his first eighteen years.

Ray earned his B.S. degree in mathematics from the United States Air Force Academy. After graduation from the USAF Academy, he began an exciting 26 year career in the United States Air Force. Ray became an Air Force combat crewmember and flew combat missions on AC 119K and AC 130 gunships in the Vietnam War. He returned to the United States and for seven years worked as an Air Force program manager leading efforts in research and development of new aircraft and Air Force weapons systems.

In 1975 he was selected by the Air Force to attend graduate school. Ray earned his M.S. degree in Research and Development Management from the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University in 1976. After graduation from Purdue, Ray worked fifteen years on the nation’s space program. He went to Los Angeles and joined the Secretary of the Air Force’s Office of Special Projects working directly under the Secretary of the Air Force for space systems development. Ray worked with the Air Force and NASA to develop satellites, launch systems, and communications systems that support our national space interests.

Colonel Fellows was director of the $80 billion Kinetic Energy Weapons Space based interceptor program in the Space Defense Initiative (SDI) Program started by President Reagan. He completed his Air Force career with several command assignments and was retired with the rank of Colonel.

Ray wears the Air Crew Member Wings and the Master Space Badge. His military decorations include the Legion of Merit, the Air Metal, the Meritorious Service Metal with four oak leaf clusters, and the Air Force Commendation Metal.

Transitioning from government service in 1994, Ray began teaching at the college level and returned to graduate school. Ray has enjoyed teaching at Ivy Tech College, Indiana University, and Asbury College. He is currently an assistant professor teaching management courses in the Business and Economics Department at Asbury College. Ray was director of Operation Appreciation, a Christian outreach ministry to soldiers, for two years. He is chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Wilmore Free Methodist Church in Wilmore Kentucky.

Ray met his wife Nancy in California, while both were attending a Methodist Church in Redondo Beach. They have two girls, Sarah 22 and Laura 21. Ray enjoys golfing, skiing, reading, jogging and traveling.

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