The news that one of its members of many years service, Ron Moore, 
died last Monday has saddened the department of history.  Ron came to 
the University of Chattanooga in 1960, after completing his Ph.d at 
the University of Virginia.  His doctoral dissertation was on English 
piracy.  He was department head from 1982 to 1989.  Ron did not 
retire from UTC until 1995; after his retirement from full time 
teaching, he taught for another three years under the phased 
retirement system that was in effect at the time.  He loved teaching 
and stayed in the classroom for nearly forty years. After the period 
of his phased retirement was over, he returned to the department to 
teach yet another course at adjunct wages.

A versatile teacher, Ron did heavy lifting for the department's 
instructional program.  He was one of the group in the department 
that designed the two semester world history program that was a 
required course for all entering students at UTC when it the private 
college became part of the state university system in 1969.  For many 
years, he taught two semester courses on Medieval Europe and England 
and the British Empire.  During a period when enrollments for 
upper-level history courses were declining, Ron took upon himself to 
teach a course on War through Ages, which was aimed at ROTC students. 
He also taught Heroes and Villains (another general education course) 
several times.  Ron was always known in the classroom for his wry 
humor and command of the secondary literature.

A memorial service in Ron's memory will be held this Thursday (March 
30) at 7:00 p.m. at Brainerd United Methodist Church.  The family 
will receive friends before the service at 6:00 p.m. at the church.

-- 
James M. (Mike) Russell
Professor & Head
Department of History
Dept. Mail Code #2052
University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Chattanooga, TN 37403

Phone: 425-4579
Home: 517-0645

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