Dr. John V. Moore, Jr., son of Col. John V. Moore and Hortense
Hughes Moore of Bolton and College Park, Georgia, resident of
Montclair since 1970, passed away on June 14 at age 90 of
acute cardiopulmonary arrest at his home. Born in Atlanta, he
earned his B.A. at Harvard and his Ph.D. at Princeton and taught
German for 40 years, first at the University of Pennsylvania and
then at Montclair State University, where he was Chairman of
the German and Russian Department. His hobby was music
composition, which he studied with Randall Thompson at
Harvard and J. N. David at the Music Conservatory in Stuttgart,
Germany. He was also interested in genealogy and published
several books in that field. For 25 years he was a member of
the Board of Trustees of Overseas Neighbors in Montclair and
coordinator of their student exchange between Montclair State
and the university in Graz, Austria. He was predeceased by his
beloved companion of many years, Dr. David M. Reeves, and
there are no immediate survivors. Memorials to The
Reeves/Moore Fund for Opera at Rutgers, Rutgers University
Foundation, New Brunswick NJ 08901-1261.