Quinn Gunn McKay (born October 30, 1926) is an American academic, writer, and a leader in

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(LDS Church).

Life and career

Born on October 30, 1926, McKay was raised in

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. Quinn McKay's father, James Gunn McKay, was a cousin to LDS Church president David O. McKay. McKay's brothers are

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, Monroe G. McKay, and Barrie G. McKay. McKay served in the

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during the last year of

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. From 1948 to 1950 he was a

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. After returning from England, McKay attended

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and

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(BYU). At BYU, he was the student body president; he graduated from BYU in 1954 with a degree in accounting. McKay then attended

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, where he received an

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in 1956. After graduating from Harvard, McKay participated in a

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program by becoming a visiting professor at

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. He received a DBA from Harvard in 1958 and took a job teaching business at BYU. McKay spent two years in

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establishing a campus for the

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, after which he became the dean of the business school at Weber State College. Later, he moved to

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, and after his retirement, he was an adjunct professor at the

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. In 2001, McKay became the president of the BYU Emeritus Association. Later in his career, McKay worked as a vice president of

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. In the LDS Church, McKay was the second counselor to Neil D. Schaerrer in the general presidency of the

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from 1977 to 1979. From 1980 to 1983, McKay was the

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of the England Coventry

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of the church. He has also been a

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in the church. McKay is the author of ''Money Matters In Your Marriage'' (1971); ''The Bottom Line on Integrity'' (1994); and ''Is Lying Sometimes the Right Thing for an Honest Person to Do?: How Self-Interest and the Competitive Business World Distort Our Moral Values and What We Should Do About It'' (1997).

References

*John A. Forster
"World of experience taught him love"
''

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'', 1977-06-18. *Charlene R. Winters
"From Ethics to Emeriti"
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