John Robert Moore ’52

After a three-year illness, Bob Moore died from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at Sinai Samaritan Medical Center, Milwaukee, on Aug. 7, 1998. His memorial service was held in the Village Church (ELCA), a storefront on Milwaukee's east side.

Bob showed an uncommon capacity for growth throughout his life. At Princeton, he majored in politics and was active in Lutheran Student Fellowship and the Student Christian Assn. He earned his MBA at Harvard in 1954, was commissioned ensign after OCS in Newport, R.I., and served at sea for 18 months. The demands of liquidating the family hardware business influenced his decision to move to Milwaukee, where he taught business and finance at the U. of Wisconsin-Madison.

Bob's next life-changing event was his realization, in 1971, that he was gay. Before he retired in 1990, he was director of the executive MBA program at UW-M, and trustee of Carthage College in Kenosha. His civic activities were many, for which he received, posthumously, Milwaukee's Pridefest Lifetime Achievement Award. He noted in the 40th Book that he was sustained by two caring pastors and his loving sister.

Bob is survived by his sister, Sally Breneman w'53, and adoring nieces. We offer them our deepest sympathies.

The Class of 1952