Larry Moore:
CLASS OF 1960
Southwest Dekalb High SchoolClass of 1960
Decatur, GA
Georgia Institute of Technology - Graduate SchoolClass of 1967
Atlanta, GA
Larry's Story
Life
Larry Moore was born and raised in DeKalb County, GA and his family has been in Georgia since before the Revolutionary War. Great, great, great grandfather, Jacob Autry, fought with Elijah Clarke in the Revolutionary War in Georgia and fought the Creeks along the Oconee River for years in the area of today's Morgan, Greene, Putnam, Hancock and Baldwin Counties. The Autrys were one of the founding families in Greene County, which is just across Lake Oconee from the current family home on the Putnam County side. Great, great, grandfather, Young Moore, left Greene County shortly after 1818 to settle in what became Gwinnett County, became one of the founding families there and began the Atlanta area branch of the family. Other branches of the family remained in the Oconee area. Young Moore took the first census for Gwinnett County in 1820 and was later a teacher, commissioner & judge there.
Larry Moore received a BIE degree from GA Tech in 1967 and did graduate work afterwards in business at GA Tech & universities in other areas of the country. While in college he founded and edited the South DeKalb News and published poetry in several publications including the Atlanta Times.
He began a 32-year career with AT&T while in college and retired from AT&T in 1995 as Vice President and head of one of the global business units. During his AT&T career he lived in a number of areas of the country and held a variety of positions in the northeastern United States (NY, NJ, PA, DC, MA) as well as parts of the southeast (AL, LA, GA) and other areas. Executive assignments covered almost all AT&T departments (engineering, R&D, operations, HR, strategic planning, sales & marketing). After AT&T Larry founded MooreCom and later joined C&D (global headquarters in Philadelphia) to head its largest global division before finally retiring (from the corporate world) in October, 2000. He began an official residence at Lake Oconee in Putnam County in 1994 but commuted to other parts of the country and also kept a second residence in Philadelphia until 2000.
Current community activities include: commentator for NP...Expand for more
R Georgia Public Radio, columnist for the Eatonton Messenger and Lake Oconee News; Chairman of the Historic Piedmont Scenic Byway Corp.; past Board Member of the Development Corporation of Middle Georgia; Investments; Advisory Board (Business) and President's Circle for Georgia College & State University (GC&SU); Board Chairmen of Better Hometown Eatonton ; Putnam Historical Society; Past member of Eatonton Historical Commission and a member of Eatonton Kiwanis. He is a past Citizen of the Year for Putnam (Chamber of Commerce selection). He has organized scenic bicycle rides in the Lake Oconee Area, bikes with his family on tours in different parts of the country (New England, California Wine Country, etc.) and personally bikes 100 miles a week.
Outside activities have included running marathons; triathlons; bicycling; running 1984 Olympic Torch; coaching Little League baseball, community basketball and soccer; Kiwanis Club; Lions Club; Junior Achievement; international travel; golf; recruiting minorities and women for MIT and GA Tech. He has spoken to groups globally & published poetry.
For over 40 years he has been married to Jenny Lindsey Dillion Moore, originally from Lawrenceburg, TN but a graduate of SWD ('62)and Agnes Scott College in Decatur, GA. Jenny has been co-organist for St. Stevens Church in Milledgeville, GA for over ten years, teaches piano at Lake Oconee and is part-time faculty for the music department at Georgia College (GC&SU). She has also played for GC&SU and community supported musicals. Jenny and Larry have two grown daughters, Rosemary and Laura. Rosemary completed her doctorate at the University of Michigan after graduating with high honor from Harvard. She is now the Ancient History Professor at the University of Iowa. Laura, an M.I.T. graduate is an environmentalist, has been associated with the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center near Washington, DC, and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Maryland, where she served as president of the 10,000 member graduate student body,
and has traveled the world, recently spending months in the jungles of Peru.
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