Lloyd L Morain was an American businessman, philanthropist, writer, environmentalist, art collector and film producer, who uniquely served two terms as President of the American Humanist Association.
16 Facts About Lloyd Morain
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Lloyd Morain was born in Pomona, California, the youngest of four children of Jesse and Adelheide Gutheil Morain, and grew up living in a shack in a northern California lumber town where his father worked as a minister.
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Lloyd Morain became president of the Los Angeles Society for General Semantics, through which he met Mary Stone Dewing; they married in 1946.
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Lloyd Morain served his first term as President of the American Humanist Association from 1951 to 1955.
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Lloyd Morain became involved in the movie industry again in the late 1950s, producing the movie Flight, based on John Steinbeck's short story, which won a prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Lloyd Morain was editor of the Humanist Magazine between 1979 and 1990, and wrote for the magazine on issues as diverse as general semantics, international cooperation, affordable housing, and humanism in developing countries.
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Lloyd Morain was a major financial donor to the AHA, and served on the board of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
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Lloyd Morain researched and wrote a book on working drifters, The Human Cougar, published in 1976.
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Lloyd Morain saw the drifters, who he had first encountered in his youth, as epitomizing the American ideal of personal independence, and often rode boxcars and camped with them while gathering their stories.
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Lloyd Morain worked closely with prison governors on the rehabilitation of prisoners through finding them employment opportunities.
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Lloyd Morain helped his friend and business partner Michael McOmber establish a school for troubled adolescent boys, Bridges Academy, in Bend, Oregon in 1997.
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Lloyd Morain supported local performers through theatre scholarships, and purchased a large area at Rancho San Carlos near his home in Carmel, California, to protect the redwoods from logging.
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Lloyd Morain was actively involved in the international organisation of arm wrestling as a sporting activity, and competed for the US in the sport at the Goodwill Games in Moscow in 1988.
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Lloyd Morain had an extensive collection of sculptures, carvings, paintings and furniture, acquired through his worldwide travels, particularly in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific.
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Lloyd Morain was one of the signatories of the agreement to convene a convention for drafting a world constitution.
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Lloyd Morain died in Carmel in 2010 at the age of 93.