Charles G. Moore ’65
Charles G. Moore ’65 died in Portland, Maine, on January 26, 2015, after a long battle with prostate cancer. “Kip” is survived by his wife, Meryl; former spouses Martha and Emily; children Abigail, Christopher, Jennifer and Nathaniel; and brother Robert ’71. Kip was a math major and on the team that developed the computer language BASIC and the Dartmouth time-sharing system. He went on to get his Ph.D. in computer and communication sciences at the University of Michigan. He taught computer science at Universitá di Bologna, Université de Grenoble and Cornell University. He moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1975 and joined Automated Data Processing. In 1982 he moved to New York and became a partner in the venture capital firm of Welsh, Carson, Anderson and Stowe, where he specialized in developing information processing companies. In 1992, to be closer to his children and indulge his love of the sea, he moved to Little Diamond Island, near Portsmouth, Maine, where he purchased a former Coast Guard station, which he dubbed “The Boathouse.” In addition to hosting the family on the island, Kip nurtured startup technology companies in Maine. He also served as a director of the Maine Audubon and the Gulf of Maine Research Institute. Kip loved the outdoors, particularly skiing, sailing and traveling—taking his children rafting in the Grand Canyon and cycling through France and later visiting exotic locations around the globe.
