After graduation from Pomona, Grayson studied physics at the University of California, Berkeley, but eventually changed his interests to medicine.
Grayson made his first bow from a lemonwood stave that he won selling tickets to a movie about Art Young's trek across Alaska.
Hunting expeditions and professional travel provided opportunities to collect archery-related materials in areas such as Mexico, British Columbia, Alaska, and Africa.
There he added a building to house his vast archery collection and related materials like thumb rings, ivory sculpture, and paintings.
If history teaches any lessons at all, Bert will be remembered as the one individual in our time who preserved treasures of the past, which would have otherwise been completely lost or forgotten.
I am confident future generations will realize the value of his work even more than today[10] Grayson was a member as well as Vice President of the Society of Archer-Antiquaries.