John Moffat ’41

John died June 19. A Hill School graduate with an illustrious Princeton heritage: father, Class of '13; grandfather, Class of 1875; great-grandfather, Class of 1835; a great-uncle, Class of 1883, who was inducted into the National Football Hall of Fame.

With his first wife, Lovice Whitall, he settled in Cooperstown. Then, after a second marriage to equestrian champion Elaine Moore, he devoted himself to his lifelong love of horses, establishing the Cooperstown Stables, a thoroughbred breeding and showing farm.

In 1968, he became director of riding at Mount Holyoke, developing one of the top collegiate riding programs before he retired in 1984.

John's equestrian career included studies at the Fulmer School of Horsemanship in England and the Spanish Riding School in Vienna. He was a licensed and recognized judge by the American Horse Shows Assn. in hunters, jumpers, and hunt-seat equitation, and became one of the most distinguished members of the Professional Horsemen's Assn.

Surviving are his wife, Elaine Moore Moffat, his first wife, Lovice Quigley, two sons, James and Michael, two daughters, Sarah and Pamela, nine grandchildren, one great-grandson, and his cousin, Ted Fuller '41.

The Class of 1941