Bessie B. Moore, 1902-1995, was born on a small farm in Kentucky and moved with her father to Arkansas’s Ozark Mountains when she was 10. By the time she was 14, Moore had obtained a teaching certificate and was working at a rural school near Batesville, Arkansas. After three years, she moved to central Arkansas to teach in Pulaski County. Throughout her lifetime, Moore served as a member of the Arkansas Library Commission and on the board of directors of the First National Bank of Little Rock, developed Arkansas’s first nursery schools, and won the approval for the Ozark Folk Cultural Center. What is considered to be her ultimate triumph is the development of Arkansas Council of Economic Education, known today as Economics Arkansas, which is an awards program that recognizes teachers across the state of Arkansas who implement economic and personal finance into the classroom. In 1978, the University Of Arkansas Board of Trustees named its new Economic Education Center the Bessie B. Moore Center. The center was established with a grant from Phillips Petroleum Company in August 1978 and was dedicated in May 1979. During its dedication, Moore emphasized that the center would greatly help the state’s goal of eliminating economic illiteracy. Today the Bessie B. Moore Center is administered by the Sam M. Walton College of Business and is under the direction of Dr. Rita Littrell. The Center serves 16 counties in Northwest Arkansas.