Shepherd University mourns the loss of actress and philanthropist Mary Tyler Moore. In 1995, Moore donated her great, great, great grandfather's home—the Conrad Shindler House—to the Shepherd University Foundation to serve as the home of the Civil War Center. In May 1996, Moore delivered Shepherd's commencement address and presented a key to the house at a ceremony renaming the Center the George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War, in honor of her father
