Tom King

Tom King

Tom King is a 30-year educator who taught more than 15 years as a social studies/history teacher in Enid, Okla., before moving to Crete in 1992 to serve as the chair of Doane's newly developed graduate education program and director of the secondary education program. Today, he teaches five different curriculum courses in the graduate education program and continues to direct the growing secondary education program.

King is president of the Nebraska State Council of Social Studies and is a social studies curriculum consultant to the Nebraska State Department of Education. King teaches secondary education, instructional technology, social studies methods, Civil War history and a regional geography course in the Doane undergraduate program. He earned his undergraduate degree from Westminster College, a master of education from Phillips University, and a doctorate in education from Oklahoma State University.

King portrays two Civil War characters, General Ulysses S. Grant and Colonel Matt. F. Locke, a relative who served as a Confederate Colonel in the 10th Texas Cavalry. A member of the Nebraska Humanities Council Speakers Bureau, he gives presentations of these historic characters for elementary, secondary and college classrooms, as well as civic clubs and other community events.