John Core

CORE, John Albert. b. Camp Rucker, Alabama, 17 February 1951; d. Morgantown, West Virginia, 9 May 2017. Educated in the public schools of Cicero, Illinois, and Morgantown, West Virginia, he was awarded a Bachelor Of Arts degree in Speech Communication from West Virginia University (May 1974). From 1975 onwards, he served as a library associate in the metadata unit of the WVU Downtown Campus Library, where his principal responsibility was for the cataloging of music materials. He retired in 2017 after 41 years at the University.  Core was a longtime member of the First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ*) of Morgantown, where he served as a deacon and then as an Elder. He had a life-long...