Thomas Jenner Moore ’52

Like his father, Dr. J. Leonard '20, and his brother, John L. Jr. '51, Tom Moore was afflicted with a very aggressive cancer. Diagnosed in Apr. 1995, he died May 30 in Central Vermont Hospital. His memorial service in the Old Meeting House in East Montpelier combined the main threads of his life: love of family, music, and the community, which he served as pediatrician. His longtime friend and roommate, George Gallup '53, was a principal speaker. The service was framed by hymns, which family and friends had sung during retreats in the mountains above Beirut, where Tom's father was a professor at American Univ.

Tom flourished in different cultures on several continents. He moved to Princeton in 1940 and enrolled in Deerfield Academy. After graduation from Princeton and medical school at Columbia, he completed his PhD in cellular biology at MIT. He taught in Frankfurt, Germany, lectured in pediatrics in Nigeria, and was director of pediatric research at St. Luke's Hospital in NYC. After five years of weekly commuting to Vermont, following his marriage to Celina Kellog in 1968, he and his family moved to Montpelier. Tom founded Rich's Hollow String Quartet, taught cello, and played with the Vermont Philharmonic.

Tom is survived by Celina, his daughters, Celina L. and Eliza Jenner, and a sister, Carin Laughlin. We offer them our deepest sympathies.

The Class of 1952