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Joseph Wright Griggs was born in Lubbock, Texas on July 9, 1930. Joe has
been married to the former Ruth Allen for 22 years. He has one brother, John
Paul, who, together with his wife, Florence, spent 35 years as Southern
Baptist missionaries in Zimbabwe in South Africa; and two sisters, Mary Jo
Butler and Betty Ruth Gillaspie, both retired elementary school teachers.
Joe has a doctor of education degree in educational psychology from the
University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. He has taught elementary school
for four years - two years in Brownsville, Texas and two years in Lincoln Park,
Michigan. He also spent seven years as a professor of educational psychology
at Central State University in Edmond. Oklahoma.
However, his longest tenure was with the Federal Government, as a
psychologist with the National Institute of Mental Health in Rockville,
Maryland for eighteen years where he generated research proposals in school
mental health and administered government support for ethnic minorities to
get their doctorates in mental health related fields.
About Us
Following his retirement from the government, Joe
spent two nine-month terms teaching English as a
Second Language at a large electronics factory in
Nove Zamky, Slovakia. He was in Slovakia when the
nation of Czechoslovakia was divided into the Czech
Republic and the Slovak Republic on January 1,1993.
Both Joe's mother and grandmother often wrote and
read poetry to the four children. So at the age of 19,
Joe began writing poetry himself. He has had printed
four small books of Christian poems which he has
distributed to family and friends. Now he has found a
publisher who will publish in one volume all of Joe's
poems. The title of the book when completed will be:
THE BIBLE IN POETRY. There will be well over 100
poems in the new book.
