| Dr. Gay was born and raised in Auckland, New Zealand, the city of sun and sea. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Guelph and his DVM at the Ontario Veterinary College. After working at the colleges of veterinary medicine at Glasgow and Oxford, Dr. Gay was recruited by the newly formed School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Melbourne, Australia to establish an ambulatory and clinical service in large animal medicine. In 1979, Dr. Gay decided to move closer to his family in North America and found a home at Pullman, WA as a professor of large animal medicine in the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences at WSU. In 1984, he was appointed Director of the newly established Field Disease Investigative Unit. It is a joint effort between the College of Veterinary Medicine and the College of Agriculture and Home Economics. The investigative unit serves as an onsite source for problems occurring in the agriculture industry. It’s a job that Clive enjoyed and looked forward to each day of his career. As he once related, “If you don’t get up every day excited about what you are doing, you are in the wrong job.” As an ongoing part of his work at WSU, Dr. Gay has been involved in the field of neonatal disease in calves. He was an early investigator in the research on E. coli enteritis and septicemia and the failure of passive transfer of antibiotics in the colostrum. He is also a contributing author in Blood and Henderson’s “Large Animal Medicine.” In addition to his professional activities, Clive is avid grower of orchids. He became acquainted with these delicate and showy flowers in New Zealand when he attended an Orchid Society Meeting. Now he shares his house with more than a hundred of the beautiful flowers. For most of his professional life Dr. Gay has been involved in organized veterinary medicine. In the U.S., Canada, and Australia, he has held offices in local associations. His wife Carol was active in the women’s WSVMA Auxiliary and introduced Clive to many new faces in the companion animal medicine. His personal goal as president of WSVMA was to advance the profession and he accomplished that with pride during his tenure. |