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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

Honored by:
Ms. Barbara M. Parramore

Thomas Custis Parramore was born in Hertford County, North Carolina on December 19,1932. Died Wake County, North Carolina on January 13, 2004. Education: AB, AM, Ph.D. (1965), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Served in the U. S. Army, 1955-1957, Reserves, 1957-1958. Meredith College, Raleigh, NC History Professor Emeritus.
Member of the North Carolina First Flight Centennial Commission, 1994-1998, advisor 1998-2003.
Publications on aviation:
First to Fly: North Carolina and the Beginnings of A viation. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2002.
Triumph at Kitty Hawk: The Wright Brothers and Powered Flight, NC Department of Cultural Resources, 1994.
The Gat/ing Aeroplane of 1873, Murfreesboro Historical Association. Ashokie: Pierce Publishing Company, 2003. (Aeroplane builder James Henry Gatling, brother of the Gatling Gun inventor.)
Consultant to the NC Museum of History for preparation of the History of Aviation Exhibit opened in 2003.