Introduction

Biography

Orien was the hus­band of Lill­ian Fer­ry (mar­ried 1935).

He stu­died and taught mu­sic at Whea­ton Col­lege, Il­li­nois, where fu­ture ev­an­gel­ist Bil­ly Gra­ham was one of his stu­dents. He is said to have writ­ten that Gra­ham was a poor trumpet play­er, but I un­der­stood he had oth­er tal­ents.

In 1935, Or­ien and Lil­li­an moved to Se­at­tle, Wash­ing­ton, where he be­came mu­sic di­rect­or at Bal­lard High School. He al­so head­ed the Ball­ard Young Life Club un­til mov­ing to Co­lo­ra­do Springs around 1947.

There, he led the Cañ­on Ci­ty Young Life Club, di­rect­ed the choir at the Co­lo­ra­do Springs First Pres­by­ter­ian Church, and was Pub­lic Re­la­tions di­rect­or for the Young Life or­ga­ni­za­tion.