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About John Hall Moss
1936-John Hall Moss, professor of Geology, suffered a fatal heart attack while doing geological field work near Phoenix, Arizona, July 28, 1977. The son of Frank H. and Anna Hunter Moss, he was born in Philadelphia, October 25, 1918, and was a graduate of St. Paul's and Princeton. He was at the School for four years, served on the Record Committee and as a Sunday School teacher, and coxed the Halcyon Crew of 1935. At Princeton he majored in Geology and went on to earn an M.S. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1943. He worked with the Corps of Engineers as a civilian for two years, in the United States and Hawaii, during World War II, and after the war earned an M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard.
(dissertation: Harvard dissertation on glaciation in the Wind River Mountains)
In 1948 he began his career as a teacher of Geology at Franklin and Marshall College. Ultimately he was chairman of the Geology Department for thirteen years and he had been Director of Environmental Studies since 1971. He was devoted to all aspects of his work, especially the teaching of undergraduates, always finding time, however busy he might be, to help individuals or organizations in need. He was a dynamic and human teacher, compassionate and humorous. In 1964 he was president of the National Association of Geology Teachers, and he had also served as a director of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council and as chairman of the Environment and Public Policy Committee of the Geological Society of America. His permanent memories of St. Paul's included the occasion (which he recalled on a visit to the School in the summer of 1976) when a science teacher got him out of bed in the middle of the night to go to the Observatory to see a comet-an episode to which he attributed some of the impetus to wards his career in science. He is survived by his wife, Margaret Moss; three sons, John H. Moss, Jr., William S. and Frederick Moss; three daughters, Margaret P., Barbara H. and Jane S. Moss; two brothers, Hunter Moss, '31, and Robert A. Moss, and two sisters, Anna M. W. Spiller and Sarah M. Lorimer. He was also the brother of the late Rev. Frank H. Moss, Jr., '27.
The nursery in Lancaster County's Central Park is name for him in honor of his environmental work
http://lancasteronline.com/lifestyle/explore-the-hidden-gems-of-cou...
another obituary at:
http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/cs/groups/public/documents/document/dcn...
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John Hall Moss's Timeline
| 1918 |
October 25, 1918
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Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States
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| 1977 |
July 28, 1977
Age 58
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Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, United States
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