Upper Iowa University Athletics Hall of Fame
Marion H. Moore attended high school in Clinton, Indiana, where Spike Kelly, a product of UIU and one of the 1980 Hall of Fame inductees, was Marion’s high school coach. Kelly arranged an athletic scholarship for Moore at Upper Iowa. In his athletic career at UIU, Moore lettered four times each in football as a left tackle and in basketball as a center, along with lettering in track. He was the captain of the football and basketball teams and received All-Conference honors in both. In 1931, he received his B.A. from UIU, and in 1948 his M.A. from Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa. The Honorary Doctor of Pedagogy Degree was bestowed on him in 1976 by UIU.
Marion spent 42 years as an educator in Iowa schools, twelve as a teacher and athletic coach, and thirty as a superintendent of schools. The last fifteen years were spent as a superintendent of Valley Community Schools, including Clermont, Elgin and Wadena. The consolidation enveloped over 170 miles and was one of the first in the wave of school reorganizations which began in the 1950’s.
Marion served as president of the Fayette County Schoolmasters, was a member of both I.S.E.A. and N.E.A., and the American Association of School Administrators. For fifteen years, he served on the Representative Council of the Iowa High School Athletic Association. He served s president of the Fayette County Education Association, treasurer of the Clermont Methodist Church, and president of the Upper Iowa Conference.
At the time of his death in 1980 he was a member of the Clermont Lutheran Church, serving as a past council member, and a member of the Masonic Lodge, serving as secretary for eleven years and past master for two year. He was a Thirty-Second Degree Mason. He served on the UIU Board of Trustees for the last ten years of his life.
Marion’s wife, Mildred Moore, accepted the honor in his memory.
