Robert Adams Moss ’38

Bob Moss died July 24, 1995, of heart failure. He spent his entire career in many different aspects of education but always called himself simply "a teacher."

Bob majored in history and was a member of Theatre Intime. Upon graduation he began 20 years at Groton School, where he taught religion and became senior master. In 1958 Bob became head of St. Andrew's School in Delaware, to which he brought coeducation, racial integration, and an expanded arts program. In 1976 he began teaching religion at Westtown Friends and later at Lincoln Univ. In recent years Bob was a volunteer administrator at a hospital, where he developed the ethics and quality assurance programs. In all his work, Bob was guided by his deep religious faith.

In 1984 Bob found his real mission in Kenya, in a visit to Nangina Girls Primary School, a rural school struggling with inadequate facilities and teaching materials. He helped build up the school with teacher-training seminars, a library, and his own inspiring teaching. Today Nangina School is a topranked primary school in Kenya.

Bob is survived by his wife, Maria Cattell, son Robert A. Jr., daughters Heidi Moss and Majorie MossCoane, Maria's four children and their combined 10 grandchildren, brother Hunter '35, sisters Anna Spiller and Sarah Lorimer, and former wife Huldah. We join them in celebrating Bob's life.

The Class of 1938