Walter Bedford Moore III ’41

"Bep" Moore died in his Charlottesville home July 21, 1995. Until his retirement in 1988, he taught in the English department and the humanities division of the engineering school at the Univ. of Virginia.

Born in York, S.C., Bep went to Princeton from Episcopal H.S., majored in English, was president of Clio, joined Charter, roomed with Joe Montgomery and Baker Bradenbaugh, played 150-lb. football, and was active with Intime and the Nassau Lit.

In WWII, he was a Navy fighter pilot. Entering Harvard graduate school, he earned a master's in English in 1947. He was a member of the society of the Cincinnati and of St. Paul's Memorial Church in Charlottesville, where funeral services were held. Humankind has great need for engineers who can express themselves in spoken and written words as well as with drawings and numbers, and Bep's contributions to this end were not the least of his many accomplishments.

Survivors include his wife, Jane; sisters, Mrs. John Will Walker and Mrs. Gordon B. Smith; and 10 nieces and nephews. To all of these, the class expresses its deep sympathy.

The Class of 1941