By Dan Nonte, University Relations
The Beverly Cooper Moore and Irene Mitchell Moore Humanities and Research Administration Building, home to five academic departments.
A new building at UNCG has a new name: the Beverly Cooper Moore and Irene Mitchell Moore Humanities and Research Administration Building.
On Aug. 31, the trustees named the three-story brick building at the corner of Spring Garden and Forest streets to recognize the couple’s contributions to the university. The $16.9 million building, a North Carolina Higher Education Bonds project, will be formally dedicated on Founders Day, Oct. 5.
Irene “Rene” Moore is giving $2 million to UNCG through the Students First Campaign to name the building and establish 16 graduate student scholarships, known as the Moore Fellowships. Her husband, Beverly, who died in 2001, was chairman of the UNCG Board of Trustees from 1972 until 1975.
Ms. Moore and Chancellor Patricia A. Sullivan are particularly proud of the graduate student scholarships. “This is a wonderful opportunity for us to recruit outstanding graduate students nationally,” Sullivan said. “It helps us carve out a promising future for these students.”
Mr. Moore, a Greensboro native and founding partner of the law firm Smith Moore Smith Schell & Hunter (now known as Smith Moore LLP), one of North Carolina’s largest and most prestigious law firms, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1931. He earned his Juris Doctor degree at Yale University School of Law in 1934.
He served as president of the Greensboro Bar Association and the North Carolina Bar Association, and on the Board of Governors of the American Bar Association. He served as a trustee of the Consolidated University of North Carolina from 1967 until 1972.
Ms. Moore, who lives in Greensboro, graduated from Sweet Briar College in 1942 and married Mr. Moore on July 10, 1943. They had two children, Beverly C. Moore Jr., who died in 2003, and Irene Warren Moore Miller.
Before this latest gift, the Moore family had established two scholarships at UNCG. The first, named in honor of Beverly’s mother, is the Georgia Cooper Moore Service and Leadership Award, provided to a rising senior on the basis of academics, service and leadership. The Beverly C. Moore Scholarship is awarded to deserving students for academic achievement.
Designed to complement the historic character of the campus, the 86,000-square-foot building provides modern teaching and office space, as well as the latest audiovisual/digital projection equipment and network connections, for five departments – classical studies; English; German, Russian and Japanese studies; history; and Romance languages.
It also is home to the Office of Research; the Office of Sponsored Programs; the Office of Technology Transfer; the Office of Research Compliance; the Office of Contracts and Grants; and the Institute for Health, Science and Society.
