The Fall 2021 Moccasin Bend Lecture Series continues on Monday, October 4 at 7:00 pm featuring “The Legacy of Julius Rosenwald and the Rosenwald Schools National Historical Park Campaign” with guest speaker, Dr. Dorothy Canter, President of the Campaign’s board of directors. Dr. Canter will discuss the intersection of multiculturalism, civil rights, and philanthropy that provided the impetus for establishing the new National Historical Park.
Our 2021 series will take place live at the IMAX Theater with an accompanying live broadcast via Zoom so that all guests have the opportunity to participate in the Q&A following the presentations. **We will follow all appropriate CDC policy and local health guidelines at the time of the event to provide a safe experience for our guests.
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The Moccasin Bend Lecture Series is presented each fall with fascinating speakers and topics related to National Parks and conservation; Indigenous culture and history; and Chattanooga’s place in the U.S. Civil War. The series was founded in 2006 by Tennessee Representative Greg A. Vital and has been sustained into our 16th year through his generous sponsorship. All lectures are on Monday evenings, and are free and open to the public.
Dr. Dorothy Canter
About Our Speaker:
Dorothy A. Canter, Ph.D., has been a volunteer for the National Parks Conservation Association for 34 years, serving on the Board of Trustees from 1988 to 1997. She currently is the President of the Campaign to Create the Julius Rosenwald & Rosenwald Schools National Historical Park. She was one of the founders of the Friends of Fort Hunt Park in Alexandria, VA. She has visited 322 National Park units.
Canter is an expert in the decontamination of bioterrorism agents and in responding to and recovering from attacks with weapons of mass destruction, played an important role in the fumigations of contaminated buildings following the 2001 anthrax attacks.
Before her retirement she was the principal of Dorothy Canter Consulting LLC. She also served as a senior professional biophysicist at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Prior to that she worked for the federal government for 29 years, the last 15 of which at the Environmental Protection Agency, where she served as the Chief Scientist for Bioterrorism Issues from November 2001 until June 2005. Dr. Canter received both a B.S. in mathematics and a Ph.D. in biophysics from The George Washington University.