Christian Earl Moore ’14

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EARL DIED June 20, 1992, at his home in Rosemont, Penn. He was 98 years old.

From, 1920 until his retirement in 1959, he worked for Drexel & Co. (now Drexel Burnham Lambert). Loyalty to his firm, his Class, and his university were hallmarks of Earl's outlook on life. As his daughter, Louise Morse, says, "He personified oldfashioned virtuesresponsibility, prudence, common sense, good judgment, and constant devotion to his family." He had, however, another "family that rarely repaid his devotion: the Philadelphia Phillies. On the other hand, he was an avid golfer.

For six years after college, Earl taught English at the Haverford School. He was a Mason, secretary of the Philadelphia Better Business Bureau, a member of the Merion Cricket Club, the Princeton Club of New York, and an elder of the Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church.

He came to Princeton from the Haverford School. He was a member of Cloister Inn, majored in history and government, and roomed his senior year with John Heyl. His love of and commitment to Princeton was lifelong. He was '14's V.P., its treasurer, and until shortly before his death, its faithful secretary. These duties were his top priorities.

In addition to his daughter, Earl is survived by two grandsons. He was indeed representative of a diminishing breed and the Princeton family salutes him. He was buried in the family lot at West Laurel Hill Cemetery in BalaCynwyd next to his classmate Hobey Baker.

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