NEWS RELEASE
Contact: Lori Meads,
Educator
Release
Date: Immediate
(252) 335-1453
End Date: February 23, 2014
“P. W. Moore:
NOT a Biography – Highlights of his Service to Elizabeth City”
Presented
by Glen Bowman, Ph.D.
The
presentation will address Moore’s service to the
Elizabeth City community, his emphasis on the
church, his work in banking, and also his tireless work in the name of
education. Peter Wedderick Moore,
1859-1934, was one of the area’s most renowned educators. A graduate of Shaw, he was the first
principal of Elizabeth City State Colored Normal School,
Known today as Elizabeth
City State
University. He served from 1891-1928.
Dr.
Bowman is Professor of History and Director of International Programs. He
served as chair of the Department of History and Political Science from
2008-2011. He became Director of International Programs in October 2013. He teaches World Civilizations II, as well as
upper-level courses in European History and World History, and has published a
number of articles on the religious and political history of the sixteenth
century and on pamphlet literature of the Reformation. He has also written and
edited THE RAZOR'S EDGE, a critical thinking text/World History reader. The
royalties from the book have been used to fund the Leonard Ballou Memorial
Fund, which has been tapped to fund student scholarships since 2005. He is now working on an updated history of Elizabeth City State University, in preparation of the
University's 125th
anniversary celebration in 2016.
Dr.
Bowman earned the Ph.D. in History at the University of Minnesota.
Originally from suburban Philadelphia, he has
been at Elizabeth
City State
University since 1999.
Free
Program
For
More Information Call 252-335-1453
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