 Dr. Ryder was superintendent of Brady Community Schools, Saginaw County, from 1955 to 1957, and a member of the Saginaw County School Administrators Association.From 1957 to 1962 he was an assistant instructor in the MSU College of Education.In 1962 he was named assistant to the dean of University Extension Administration with the rank of associate professor at Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana.