The Vow

John Perry was an industrial management consultant, who then spent ten years with the Smithsonian Institution doing overseas nature conservation. John is a trustee of the Florida Nature Conservancy. John Perry is married to Jane Greverus Perry, an economist, who came to Washington as a congressman's secretary and thereafter held senior posts in several executive agencies and presidential commissions. Together they have hiked, backpacked, canoed, camped, and cruised in all 50 states, and wrote more than 14 books and produced 24 educational filmstrips, chiefly on natural history and ecology. They moved to Winter Haven, Florida from their long term home in Washington, DC. They hold various offices in county Sierra Club and Audubon Society Groups and the Coalition for the Environment. (drawn from page 412 "About the Authors" in the 1985 book The Sierra Club guide to the natural areas of New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada) His obituary is here: Before retiring to Florida, John Perry was an assistant director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Zoological Park, and did wildlife conservation in Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia. In the 1980s he chaired the Polk County Coalition for the Environment. Jane Greverus Perry died in 1997. John married a second wife Dottie Perry. From "About the Authors" in Exploring the Forest, page 192: Mr. Perry is a past president of the Friends of the National Zoo and member of the Fauna Preservation Society. He collaborated with Jane Greverus Perry to prepare Resources Report to Industry" for The Conservation Foundation. From "About the Author" in The Story of Standards, page 262: Mr. Perry was born in Newark, NY, and schooled at Tabor and Montclair Academies and at Lehigh University. He lives in Washington, DC with his family, Jane, and their daughters Forest and Gale and a son Jefferson. He has written many articles for Nation's Business, Public Opinion Quarterly, Harvard Business Review. He was in 1946-47 the editor of Federal Science Progress_. He wrote Human Relations in Small Industry and his next book will be about American ferryboats.