Daniel C. Moore
1915 - 1999
Professor Dan Moore taught physics and mathematics at Oxford College for over four decades. His work brought him the admiration and affection of his students and repeated recognition for his skills in the classroom. In the late 1950s, students dedicated yearbooks to him and in 1985, a former student of his, Henry Nipper, dedicated a book he wrote on chemistry to his former professor. Upon his retirement in 1983, Oxford administrators dedicated a conference room in his honor in Seney Hall. The Dan C. Moore Honor Fund, established to raise money for the renovation of Pierce Hall, was established in his honor in 1983. The Dan C. Moore Scholarship was also endowed that same year. In 1985, Moore received the Association Alumni Award of Honor.
Moore was a survivor of a prisoner-of-war prison camp in the Philippines and the infamous Bataan Death March during World War II, a harrowing 65-mile trek in which 78,000 prisoners of war were forced to walk from the Bataan province near Manila to a Japanese POW camp. As many as 11,000 died along the way.
Moore was a survivor of a prisoner-of-war prison camp in the Philippines and the infamous Bataan Death March during World War II, a harrowing 65-mile trek in which 78,000 prisoners of war were forced to walk from the Bataan province near Manila to a Japanese POW camp. As many as 11,000 died along the way.