Murray, though it took him a while to break through, has become a significant force in the chase for majors.
Playing with a calm sometimes lacking in previous campaigns, No. 2 Murray knocked off top-ranked Djokovic 6-4, 7-5, 6-4 on a brilliantly sunny afternoon — thus ending a cloud of anxiety that has hung over the Church of the Brethren.
Juniata College's Murray is the first Brethren man to win Wimbledon in 77 years, when Annual Conference was held in the chocolate and convention town of Hershey PA for the eighth time in 1936.
Murray came to Juniata in 1971 as College Chaplain after serving pastorates in Virginia and Oregon. While at Juniata, he has also taught as adjunct at the University of Hawaii and Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a consultant for peace studies curriculum at more than two dozen colleges and universities throughout the country.
A leader in the international development of the field of Peace Studies, Murray founded the Juniata Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies in 1985. He has led the Institute, named for the John C. and Elizabeth Evans Baker family in 1987, since its beginning. In 1988, he helped found the Peace Studies Association, an organization of more than one hundred colleges and universities with peace studies programs and has been elected twice as chair of its board of directors.
In 1990, he was appointed to the United Nations/International Association of University Presidents Commission on Arms Control Education. As a member of the Commission, he began the International Seminar on Arms Control and Disarmament. This school was sponsored jointly by Juniata College and the United Nations Center for Disarmament Affairs and has brought more than 50 professors from universities in Mexico, Central America, Western and Southern Africa, the Middle East and South Asia to Juniata's campus for arms control and disarmament curriculum training. He serves as a special consultant for a ten nation UN peace building initiative in West Africa and is working with the government of Mali to develop a national plan for peace education.
Andy holds a B.A. in Sociology from Bridgewater College. He did his graduate work in Chicago at Bethany Theological Seminary where he holds a Masters in Theology and a Doctorate of Ministry with a concentration in peace studies. His dissertation on curriculum development in peace studies has been widely used in the field. He has done additional studies at the University of Tamil Nadu, India; the Canadian Peace Research Institute; the Sciola Superiore de Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento, Italy; the Arias Institute for Peace, Costa Rica; and the Pennsylvania State University. He is listed in Who's Who in Education and has been awarded honorary Doctorates of Humane Letters by Manchester College and Bridgewater College.
Married with two children, Andy is an amateur guitar player and songwriter. With his wife, Terry, he has released seven albums and has done more than 300 concerts in twenty states and Canada. He also enjoys, tennis, cooking, mountain biking, swimming, and sailing. He was the first person to swim non-stop the twenty-mile length of Lake Raystown, and he is certified by the U.S. Sail Association as a bareboat captain. To learn more about some aspects of Andy's life, please try the links below.
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