John Moncure Ph.D

John Moncure was born in Victoria, Texas, attended The Citadel, and graduated from West Point in 1972. During his military career he served in cavalry regiments in Germany and Texas, and held teaching positions at West Point, Davidson College, and the French Cavalry School in Saumur, France. After his retirement from the Army in 1997 with the rank of lieutenant colonel, John joined the Montessori School in Camden. He has served on the Board of Directors of Montessori Educational Programs International (MEPI) for 21 years, 13 of them as president. He was also a founding member of the South Carolina Montessori Alliance (SCMA) and served on the board of the International Montessori Council for 5 years. John represented MEPI on the national-level Montessori Leadership Collaborative. In 2004 John moved abroad where he was Dean of the Apollo Institute of Health Sciences in Hyderabad, India, and Principal of Eton Academy, a bilingual Montessori school in Beijing China. He is also an On-Site Visitor for the Montessori Accreditation Council for Teacher Education (MACTE) and was honored with the MACTE “Wisdom of the Elders.” John has served his community as a Rotarian, as a President of the Boards of Directors of First Steps of Kershaw County and the Kershaw County Historical Society, and as a member of the Board of Directors if United Way of Kershaw County. John has authored four books and numerous articles, graduated from the U.S. Army Airborne and Ranger Courses, the Command and General Staff College, and holds a Ph.D. in European history from Cornell University. Upon his retirement in June, 2021, he and his wife Anne moved to Beaufort, South Carolina.