Most of his Christian experience has taken place in Norfolk and Chesapeake, VA. As a child, he grew up in a home where his father served as Sunday School Superintendent, as a deacon (for 50+ years) his mother served as an usher and choir member. Little accepted the Lord Jesus Christ and was baptized at West Deep Creek Baptist Church the second week in August 1952. In the lobby alone, 26 persons were killed while he and one other person walked out. He sustained injuries as the on-duty Marine while stationed at the American Embassy, Saigon, Republic of South Vietnam as it was bombed on March 30, 1965. He served six years in the United States Marines Corps. At the collegiate level, he served as a Biology Instructor at Hampton University, Assistant Professor of Physiology at Norfolk State University, and Chemistry Instructor at Tidewater Community College.Īs an educator, he is a life member of the National Alliance of Black School Educators, having served as National Treasurer and National Chair of the Commission of Local School Administrators.He co-authored a Physical Science Laboratory Manual, used in the Norfolk Public Schools participated as Principal Writer of FiBaChu – an after school program at First Baptist Church, Berkley in Norfolk, a Participating Writer of the National Alliance of Black School Educators’ Technical Assistance Center (Washington, D.C.), a $500,000 grant program, and has served as workshop leaders in public education and Christian Education. Upon completing his Masters at NC A&T State University, he was employed as an Assistant Research Biochemist in the Ames Product Development Laboratory, at Miles Laboratory in Elkhart, IN.įrom 1969-1979, he was employed in the Norfolk Public Schools as a teacher, assistant principal and principal. His educational preparation includes a high school diploma, West Deep Creek High School, Wadesboro, NC, at the age of 16 a Bachelor and Master of Science, NC A&T State University, Greensboro, NC Master of Theology, Virginia Union University, Virginia, and Doctorate of Theology, Richmond Virginia Seminary.
(Retired Pastor)īiographical Sketch of Theodore R.
Children who were like I was, to be a guide and example to say, ‘you don’t want to go down this path.Reverend Dr. With the 5 percent, our thing is mentor children. As a five percenter, means I am a poor righteous teacher. Then through years of introspection, looking within myself, and practicing 5 percent teachings, it helped with my evolution. “Who I was, I was a typical street guy, living that lifestyle and glorifying that lifestyle. “It’s a great feeling, those that’s still there, that have gone through their transition of change and turned their life around, they deserve that feeling too,” he said. Wize remembers being ecstatic when a DOC counselor called with the news that the conditional pardon had changed to a release. “I knew the person I became, who I have become, deserved to get out, and eventually it would take place.”
That was always my inspiration, that was my strength, I always pulled from that strength,” he explained.
“I always had my sights set on I will get out one day. After more than 20 years-a Halifax man is home from prison after asking the governor to amend his conditional pardon (Family)
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