Roger Lewis Worsley | |
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Hunter, Cass County, North Dakota, USA |
March 22, 1937
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Political party | Democrat |
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Parent(s) | Craig E. and Louise M. Skue Worsley |
Relatives | Jack Taylor (first father-in-law) |
Roger Lewis Worsley (born March 22, 1937) is a retired college administrator who from 1985 to 1995 was the president of Laredo Community College in Laredo, Texas, and from 1996 to 2005 the chancellor of Southern Arkansas University Tech in Camden, Arkansas.
Worsley was born in rural Hunter in Cass County in southeastern North Dakota to Craig E. Worsley (1912-1992) and the former Louise M. Skue (1912-1997). He was reared in Midland in the central portion of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, where he graduated in 1955 from Midland High School. Craig and Louise Worley are interred at Midland City Cemetery.
Worsley obtained a Bachelor of Arts from Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona., which he attended under a full athletic scholarship from 1955 to 1959. He was elected in 1959 to Phi Delta Kappa, professional organization of educators. That same year he was named vice president of the Phi Epsilon Kappa fraternity at ASU.
On August 7, 1958, while he was still in college, Worsley wed at the First Baptist Church of Mesa, Arizona, the former Glenda Jane Taylor (1937-1979), born in Phoenix and reared in Mesa. His father-in-law was Jack Taylor, an educator and a Republican politician who was the mayor of Mesa from 1966 to 1972 and thereafter a member, consecutively, of both houses of the Arizona State Legislature. The Worsleys had a son, Roger Jackson Worsley (born c. 1960), of Placerville, California, and a daughter, Joni Jane Worsley Fisher (born 1962), wife of Mark Wydenes Fisher, both of Alamo, California. Roger and Glenda Worsley divorced in 1973, six years before Glenda's death. She had returned to the use of her maiden name and is interred beside her parents, Jack and Eda Sarah Jane Nevans Taylor (1911-1995) at the City of Mesa Cemetery.