Spencer Grin Biography

Spencer Grin, LLB, J.D. PhD, combines four careers: lawyer, consultant, publisher, educator. 

He is a lawyer and was a founder of the New York law firm Grin & Samuels, and then "of Counsel" to U.S. Senator Vance Hartke, and to the New York and Washington D.C. law firm of Delson and Gordon. He was a partner in the consulting firm, Hartke and Grin- Washington, D.C. and NYC.
Presently a partner in the law firm Spencer Grin and Associates P.C.
He was a publisher who founded World Magazine, and was the publisher of Norman Cousins' The Saturday Review and the President of the National Society of Literature and the Arts.
He was an educator who was a professor at various universities. He then became a consultant to Alvin Eurich's Academy for Educational Development.

Projects: Designed and executed pilot project for President Johnson's Great Society which now is U.S. Job Corps.
Initiated "Change For Good" for U.N.I.C.E.F. Consultant to James Grant, Executive Director UNICEF
Founder American Museum of Immigration- Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island
Consultant to Roman Vishniac-Developed photography book "A Vanished World"
(Full Curriculum Vitae Below)

S. Spencer Grin
Born New York, New York. Education: Samuel J. Tilden High School, New York University College of Arts and Pure Science. B.A., Brooklyn Law School, LLB., J.D., Union Graduate School- Antioch, Ph.D.; Admitted to New York State Bar, Connecticut Bar and U.S. Supreme Court- Washington. D.C.
Founder and Publisher of World Magazine,
Publisher and Vice-Chairman of The Saturday Review and President of The National Society of Literature and the Arts.

Trustee of: Institute on Man and Science, Pan American Development Foundation, The Penny Foundation, American Museum of Immigration-Statue of Liberty, American Field Service, Overseas Press Club, National Conference of Christians and Jews.

Founder of the New York Law Firm Grin & Samuels."Of counsel" to the law firm Delson and Gordon, N.Y.C./Washington, D.C. , and the law firm of Hartke and Hartke, Washington D.C. Founder of the consulting firms: Hartke and Grin, founder and partner in the law firm Spencer Grin and Associates P.C.

Established first International Film Festival in the USA.Co-Chairpersons: Judith Crist, Spencer Grin

Initiated and wrote a congressional bill to establish US PEACE ACADEMY sponsored by Senator Vance Hartke, to give mandatory course in Peaceful Conflict Resolution to high ranking government and defense department officials.

Part owner of the Recording Studio, THE RECORD PLANT, and

Part owner of the Development Company, Borlan Industries Inc.

Government Service: U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity.

Teaching: Graduate School of Business of Hofstra University, New York University, Friends World College and Adelphi University.

Member: American Bar Association, Psi Chi, World Peace Through Law Center, Society of International Law, Magazine Publishers Association- Chairman of the Committee for Responsibility and Freedom of the Press, and The Princeton Club.

Awards: Scholarship to New York University College of Arts and Pure Science, Award of Merit for Outstanding Achievement in Literature and the Arts by Children's Medical Center of New York Fund.

Books:
Author: MEDITATION AT SUNRISE
WORLD EDUCATION: AN EMERGING CONCEPT

Co-edited: THE GOLDEN AGE ESSAYS

Co-author: NORMAN COUSINS;WHY THIS MAN MATTERS

Co-Author: HYAM BY GEORGE

Co-Author: MYLES HORTON,FATHER OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT,
                    MYLES TO GO.

Residence: 3 East Beach Drive, Rowayton, Connecticut 06853 USA
Phone: 203-866-9223, 561-445-7380
Email: S.Grin.Atty@gmail.com
Website: www.spencergrin.com