Essential Stuff

Scott McVay graduated with an AB in English Literature in 1955 at Princeton University, served in Berlin with the CIC on civilian status, worked for Princeton University for 11 years, was engaged for years with seven foundations, was the 16th president and CEO of the Chautauqua Institute, created the McVay Poetry Trail with his wife Hella on the Greenway Meadows in Princeton with 50 poems, 25 women and 25 men with theme of awe and wonder in natural world from a dozen different lands and cultures. He has published 11 papers on whales and whale conservation in scientific journals from Scientific American (1966) to Science, “Songs of Humpback Whales,” which discovery was made with his wife Hella, and a memoir, “Surprise Encounters with Artists and Scientists, Whales and Other Living Things,” and a book of 99 poems, “Whales Sing and Other Exuberances.”