Judith Manning Grayson; USC Educator

Judith Manning Grayson, 62, director of teacher education at USC’s Rossier School of Education. A Los Angeles native educated at Stanford, Grayson began her career teaching elementary pupils in Palo Alto and Santa Monica. She switched her focus to learning-handicapped children in the late 1960s and taught at schools in Garden City, N.Y. After serving as director of the Lincoln Development Center in the Ontario-Montclair School District in Southern California, Grayson earned a doctorate in special education at USC. She joined the USC faculty in 1978 and initially taught special education and worked with local school districts on curricula and teacher training. She had held her present position for the past nine years. The Rossier School has established the Judith Grayson Endowed Memorial Scholarship Fund in her honor. On May 31 in Los Angeles of injuries suffered when she was struck by a bus near the USC campus.