Jonathan Moore ’54

Jonathan Moore ’54 died March 8 in Weston, Massachusetts. Jon came to Dartmouth from New Canaan, Connecticut, and attended Browne & Nichols School. At Dartmouth Jon was a member of Theta Delta Chi, Casque & Gauntlet, Palaeopitus, Undergraduate Council and Green Key; a representative to the Athletic Council; manager of varsity football and on the crew team. He graduated with honors in English and then earned a master’s in public administration from Harvard. He worked for the U.S. Information Agency in India and Liberia during the Eisenhower administration, as a special assistant to an assistant secretary of defense during the Kennedy administration and as a special assistant to an assistant secretary of state in the Johnson administration. During the Nixon administration he worked in the state and defense departments and as associate attorney general. He then served for a dozen years as director of the Harvard Institute of Politics before returning to Washington, D.C., as an ambassador at large for refugee affairs in the Reagan administration’s State Department. In 1989 President George H.W. Bush appointed Jon an ambassador and the U.S. alternate representative for special political affairs at the United Nations. While at the Harvard Institute of Politics, Jon drafted a proposal and helped raise funds for what became the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard, where he became an associate in 1995. He is survived by his wife, Katherine, and children Joan, Jennifer, Jocelyn and Charles.