Charles T. Reyner was born in Nebraska, USA in 1912. During the 1940s, he was an information officer for the War Department in Washington. After the war, between 1948 and 1952, he was Information Director at the Office of Public Information of the International Refugee Organization (IRO). He had an artistic temperament and while visiting ORT operations in Germany took several photos of activities at the ORT Munich school in 1948 [see images].

On returning to Washington, he worked in various public information and consulting jobs. From 1962 until his retirement in 1973, he was Deputy Director of Information at the Office of Publications and Information for Domestic and International Business at the US Commerce Department.

Charles T. Reyner died in Arlington on 8 February 1997.