Volume No. 2 Issue No. 44 - Monday June 30, 2008
Roy B. Morgan Advocacy Group Leader
 Washington Post
Roy Morgan was a consultant on a project to bring economic development to Dominica.
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Roy B. Morgan, 72, who led advocacy groups for family planning and environmental policy, died June 6 at Suburban Hospital. He had kidney cancer.
Starting in the late 1960s, he spent about a decade working at the old Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Among his responsibilities was issuing grants to family planning clinics.
This led to his work heading Zero Population Growth, a nonprofit advocacy group focusing on population policy and immigration, and the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association.
In the 1990s and early 2000s, he was president of the advocacy group Americans for the Environment. He then spent several years as deputy director for affiliate services of the United Cerebral Palsy Associations.
Roy Burton Morgan was born in Cleveland, Tenn., and raised in Ruston, La. He attended Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and held a series of jobs before graduating in 1966 from what is now the University of New Orleans.
He became a founding member of the university's alumni association in Washington and won a distinguished alumnus award from the school.
Mr. Morgan was a Democratic Party volunteer and union activist, especially during his HEW days. He was president of the local American Federation of Government Employees branch at HEW and played a vital role in winning the first union contract for employees at the department's Social and Rehabilitation Service.
He also helped organize federal worker participation in the national "Vietnam Moratorium" march of 1969.
Since the early 2000s, he was a consultant on a project to bring economic development to Dominica, an island-nation in the British West Indies.
The joint project between the Dominican government and the University of New Orleans also involved studied the longevity of the nation's people.
He was a former president of the Greenwich Park Citizens Association in Bethesda, his city of residence.
His avocations included collecting antique bottles and studying old Washington architecture. He also played the zither.
Survivors include his wife, Patricia Russell Morgan, whom he married in 1960, of Bethesda; three children, David Morgan of Radom, Poland, and Heather Freedman and Todd Morgan, both of Bethesda; a sister; and three grandchildren.
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