School of Allied Health Professions, Physical Therapy Program: Progress Report, August 1999

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH A native of Texas, Jesse Carroll Moody attended Odessa College from 1952-1954 and then graduated from Corpus Christi State University in History in 1956. He completed a master's degree at Texas A&I in 1959 while teaching History and English at Northside Junior High School in Corpus Christi. Moody then moved on to Norman, Oklahoma where he completed his doctoral degree at the University of Oklahoma in 1964. He took a position in the Department of History at the University of Toledo in 1964 and came to Northern in 1968. From 1974-1984 he served as department chair and in 1989 was elected Executive Secretary of the University Council. In 1990 he presided over the Faculty Senate and when Provost Kendall Baker resigned in 1992 President John La Tourette named Moody Acting Provost: La Tourette made the appointment permanent in the spring of 1994. Professor Moody co-authored one book, The Credit Union Movement (with Gilbert Fite) and co-edited another, Perspectives on American Labor (with Alice Kessler Harris). Moody retired in May 1999.