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BUCKHANNON -- West Virginia Wesleyan College will celebrate the inauguration of the school's 20th president, Dr. James H. Moore, on Friday.
The community is invited to the Founders Day Convocation and Investiture Ceremony in Wesley Chapel at 11 a.m. Friday.
Also this week, on Tuesday, Aladdin Food Services will serve traditional German cuisine for an Oktoberfest Dinner Party on the Benedum Student Center patio from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Music will be provided by the Edelweiss Band, sponsored by Arts Alive!
On Thursday, a free concert by the Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra, of which Moore is a member, will begin at 7 p.m. in the Virginia Thomas Law Center for the Performing Arts.
Moore began serving West Virginia Wesleyan College as Interim President in February 2022 before being named President in March 2023. Prior to his role as President, Moore served as Dean of the Faculty and Chief Academic Officer from 2017 to 2022, as Chair of the Department of Music from 2011 to 2017, and as Director of Jazz Ensembles and instructor of trumpet from 2006 to 2017.
Moore is an active member of the Pittsburgh jazz community where he is a member of the Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra and has been a member of RH Factor--the Roger Humphries quintet. In addition to his work in Pittsburgh he performs regularly with the Norman David Eleventet in Philadelphia as well as many other collaborative ventures in that city.
Moore holds a Master of Music in Jazz Studies from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and is the first recipient of the Doctor of Philosophy in Jazz Studies from the University of Pittsburgh where his advisor was Dr. Nathan T. Davis, founder of the original Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra.
Moore grew up in Morgantown and spent considerable time in Elkins visiting his grandparents, where music was always a central part of life. He is the son of Paul and Linda Moore, and brother of Becky.
For more information about the inauguration, go to www.wvwc.edu/inauguration.