Background
Moore, Terris was born on April 11, 1908 in Haddonfield, New Jersey, United States. Son of Robert Thomas and Selma Helena (Muller) Moore.
Moore, Terris was born on April 11, 1908 in Haddonfield, New Jersey, United States. Son of Robert Thomas and Selma Helena (Muller) Moore.
Graduate, Storm King School, Cornwall, New York Bachelor of Arts, Williams College, 1929; honorary Doctor of Laws, Williams College, 1979; Master of Business Administration, Harvard Graduate School Business Administration, 1933; Doctor Commercial Science, Harvard Graduate School Business Administration, 1937; Doctor of Laws, University Alaska, 1967.
He taught at University of California, Los Angeles for two years, then returned to Boston to author textbooks on taxes and work as a financial consultant. Moore"s career as a mountaineer started early, with an ascent of Chimborazo and the first ascent of Sangay, both in the Andes of Ecuador, in 1927. In the early 1930s, he made the first ascents of Mount Bona and Mount Fairweather, both major Alaskan peaks, with Allen Carpé, and he also made the first unguided ascent of Mount Robson in the Canadian Rockies.
These ascents led to his most famous climb, the first ascent (with Richard Burdsall) of Minya Konka, a 7,556 metres (24,790 ft) peak in Sichuan, China.
Their small party (also including Arthur Emmons and Jack Young) also carefully surveyed the peak and settled a controversy about its height. In making the ascent the summit pair climbed thousands of feet higher than any other Americans had previously.
In that capacity he made the third ascent of Mount McKinley. After the war, he was president of the New England Society of Natural History, which was deeply enmeshed with the Boston Museum of Science, headed by Bradford Washburn, also a noted climber of Alaskan peaks.
Moore served three years as the president of the University of Alaska, starting in 1949, and during that time he also established records for high-altitude airplane landings.
Moore Residence Hall, which along with Bartlett Hall are two 8-story buildings anchoring the upper dorm complex on the Fairbanks campus, was named for him. Student radio station KSUA has its transmitter and tower atop Moore Hall.
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Secretary, research coodinator of Maine College-Community Research Program, 1954-1957. Member overseers visiting committee in biology Harvard University, 1946-1949. Member Northeast governments' Committee Public Transportation, 1954-1957.
Served as expert consultant to quartermaster general 1942-1944. Consultant Aeronautical Research Foundation, 1956. Fellow Royal Geography Society, American Geography Society (councillor 1967-1988).
Member New York Academy of Sciences (life), American Geophysical Union, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Alpha Kappa Psi, Delta Phi. Clubs: Explorers (New York ). St. Botolph (Boston).
The Alpine (London); American Alpine (honorary), Harvard Travellers (honorary), Appalachian Mountain (honorary), Pioneers of Alaska (honorary), Mountaineers of Seattle (honorary).
Married Katrina Eaton Hincks, June 17, 1933. Children: Katrina, Henry Winslow (deceased).