George Edward Moore ’68
George Edward Moore ’68 died of pancreatic cancer on March 2, 2014, at his home in Philadelphia. At the time of his death George was senior vice president and university counsel at Temple University, where he also was secretary to the board of trustees. George came to Dartmouth from Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, and participated in WDCR his freshman year, was active in the Outing Club for all four years and was a member of Zeta Psi. He spent several years in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Vermont managing a boutique in Harvard Square, making jewelry, starting a crafts cooperative, raising chickens and managing restaurants and also spent a winter in Houston with the Urban League. A government major, he went on to Temple Law School, from which he graduated in 1976. For the next 13 years he practiced law with the firm of Ballard, Spahr, Andrews and Ingersoll, LLP, where he was made partner in 1984. He was wooed to Temple University in 1989, serving first as an in-house attorney, then secretary to the trustees in 1992 and became senior vice president in 2007. During his university career “George provided wise counsel to four presidents and dozens of trustees on the vital issues facing the university,” according to president Neil Theobald and Patrick O’Connor, chairman of the board. George is survived by his wife, Jennifer, children Sam, Nick, Emily and Jenna, as well as three sisters, a brother and three nieces.
