David Peters

co-author of Tabor College: A Century of Transformation 1908-2008

November 4, 2015

David was born in Manhattan, Kan., raised in Ames, Iowa and moved to Stillwater in 1971. He graduated from OSU and served as a Peace Corps/agricultural extension agent from 1978 to 1980 in Sierra Leone, West Africa. David has worked at the Edmon Low Library since January 1986, serving first in the General Reference Department, later in Special Collections, then as supervisor of the Map Room. He returned to the Special Collections and University Archives department as coordinator of Special Collections in December 2000 and was honored that year as the Outstanding Library Employee.

David co-authored The Campus book in the OSU Centennial Histories Series in 1990. He writes a regular column for STATE Magazine under the title "Proud and Immortal." David served two terms on the OSU Staff Advisory Council and three terms on the university's Health and Fringe Benefits committee. He received the OSU/SAC Distinguished Service Award in 1999, and is also a two-time recipient of the Greenberg/Howland Personnel Development Award. He completed certification requirements at OSU in Geographic Information Systems in May 2004. David has been married for 26 years and has a daughter in the 9th Grade.

The book tells the story of Tabor College from its founding until the present. It's the story of God at work in the lives of so many people, from the first few with a vision for a Bible college in Hillsboro, to those who endured the closing of the college during the Great Depression, to the growth and energy of the current generation of faculty, staff and students, many of whom are here as second- or third-generation Bluejays.

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2009-honorees/david-peters

Last Updated: 9 December 2015