[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 26, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: January 26, 1994]
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                    COMMENTS ON DR. RICHARD V. MOORE

  (Ms. BROWN of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. BROWN of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in honor of the life 
and work of Dr. Richard Moore who died on January 2, 1994, at the age 
of 88. Dr. Moore was the third president of Bethune Cookman College in 
Daytona Beach, FL, which is in my district. Bethune Cookman College was 
founded in 1904, by Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune to serve the needs of the 
African-American community in Florida.
  Dr. Moore was born on November 20, 1906, in Quincy, FL. He earned his 
bachelors degree from Knoxville College in 1932, and a masters degree 
from Atlanta University in 1944. Early in his distinguished career, Dr. 
Moore became the first African-American to serve as the Florida 
Department of Education's State supervisor of black secondary schools, 
a position previously held only by whites. He held this post until 
Bethune Cookman lured him to Daytona Beach. Dr. Moore served as 
president of the college from 1947 to 1975. During his tenure, Bethune 
Cookman became fully accredited, full time enrollment increased by more 
than 1,000 students, and he more than tripled the size of the school's 
endowment fund.
  Dr. Moore inspired the lives of thousands of African-American 
students and an entire community. He considered his greatest 
achievement as providing educational opportunities for young men and 
women. Dr. Moore once said: ``I have the responsibility to myself, my 
family, my country, and my God to so live as to make this world a 
better place by my having lived here.'' He lived by these words.

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