Reuben Abraham Munday (Mundy) was born in Berea, Kentucky on 10 February 1900, to Reuben H. and Sallie Ann Simms Munday. He married Gustine Elizabeth “Bettye” Alexander.
Munday earned a Bachelor of Science from Hampton Institute in 1927, a Master of Science from ISC in 1935, and a Ph.D. in Poultry Genetics from Massachusetts University in 1947. Between 1928 and 1937, he was listed as an instructor of Poultry Husbandry at the Tuskegee Institute. In 1935, when attending the banquet held by the Iowa State Alumni Association for Frederick D. Patterson’s inauguration as President of Tuskegee, he was listed as the head of the Poultry Husbandry Division at the same university.
Shortly after, he became the Director of Agriculture for Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State College from 1937-40. While at the school, he also served as the Head Football Coach in the 1937 and 1938 seasons. He was later drawn back to Tuskegee to serve as the Head of the Division of Animal Science and full Professor in the 1940s. He died in Tuskegee, Alabama on 18 July 1972.
Iowa State College Dissertation Title: The effect of selection on egg production in single comb white leghorn fowl, 1935
Iowa State University Catalog Record: https://quicksearch.lib.iastate.edu/permalink/01IASU_INST/174tg9m/alma990008351010102756
