He is a former chair of Woodland Pond’s Mill Brook Preserve Committee and was a charter member of the Editorial Committee of The Gardiner Gazette. Ray has served as a board member and chair of the Finance Committee of the Wallkill Valley Land Trust; as a trustee of the Hiram Halle Memorial Library in Pound Ridge, NY; and managed two successful municipal ballot propositions to fund the preservation of open space, one in Pound Ridge and one in Gardiner, NY. Ray was a Fulbright Scholar and has a B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA.