Charles Moore (hurdler)
Charles H. Moore Jr. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Charles Hewes Moore Jr. August 12, 1929 | |||||||||||||||||
Died | October 8, 2020 Laporte, Pennsylvania, U.S.[1] | (aged 91)|||||||||||||||||
Nationality | American | |||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | Mercersburg Academy '47 Cornell University '52 | |||||||||||||||||
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Spouse | Judith M. Moore (m. 1971–present) | |||||||||||||||||
Children | 8 | |||||||||||||||||
Parent(s) | Charles Hewes Moore Sr. (father) Jane Scott Moore (mother) | |||||||||||||||||
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Country | United States | |||||||||||||||||
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Event(s) | 400 metre hurdles 4 × 400 metres relay | |||||||||||||||||
College team | Cornell Big Red | |||||||||||||||||
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Website | runningonpurposebook.com charlieandjudith.com |
Charles Hewes Moore Jr. (August 12, 1929 – October 8, 2020) was an American
Athletic achievements
Moore did not start his track and field career until attending Mercersburg Academy as a junior, where he was coached by Jimmy Curran,[2] who recommended he try hurdling based on his father's success with the event. His father, Charles "Crip" Moore, Sr. was a hurdler[3] who made the U.S. team as an alternate in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris.[4] Charles Jr. continued with track and field as a student at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he enrolled in 1947, but was limited to four years eligibility. In his fifth and final year, preceding his performance at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, he continued to compete through the New York Athletic Club.
As a student at Cornell University, Moore won
On July 21, 1952, at the XV Olympiad in Helsinki, Finland, Moore won a gold medal and set the Olympic record in the 400 metre hurdles. He also ran the third leg for the American team's 4x400 metre relay, which earned him a silver medal. The team's performance broke the standing world record by 4 seconds (3:04.0), but was not sufficient to secure the gold against Jamaica, who ran the race in 3:03.9.[8]
Moore was inducted into Cornell University's inaugural Athletics Hall of Fame in 1978.[6] The Charles H. Moore Outstanding Senior Varsity Athlete Award at Cornell is named for him.[6] In March 2015, Cornell Magazine ranked him as the third greatest athlete in the university's history.[9] From 1994 to 1999, he was director of athletics at Cornell University.[6]
Corporate career
After the Olympics in 1952 Moore fully retired from athletics to pursue a career in business that would last 42 years. This started with his family's business Lenape Forge in 1952, which he would eventually broker the sale of to
Corporate social impact
From 1992 to 2000, Moore was Public Sector Director of the
Moore was the former Governor of the
Education
Moore was a 1947 cum laude graduate of Mercersburg Academy and a 1952 BME graduate of Cornell University. He was a member of the honorary societies Aleph Samach and Quill and Dagger society at Cornell. At Mercersburg, he served on the board of regents from 1996 to 2005 and was named the Class of 1932's Distinguished Alumnus in 2002.
Memoir
In March 2017 Moore published a book[12] recounting his various careers as athlete, business person and philanthropist. Running on Purpose: Winning Olympic Gold, Advancing Corporate Leadership and Creating Sustainable Value was co-authored with James Cockerille and published by Edgemoor Ink.
The book is part memoir, providing detail on his upbringing, education and eventual Olympic competition. It is also part business-treatise, detailing numerous turnarounds he led for corporations as well as the athletic department of Cornell. In the last chapter, Moore drew on his athletic orientation and societal impact efforts with Fortune 500 companies. In it he proposed a new form of commercial competitiveness. The challenge he offered is for executives, their boards and investors to embrace a new framework of measurement. Such a framework is not defined, however. Instead Moore proposed a greater integration between the work of pioneering groups in integrated reporting, especially IIRC, and sustainability accounting, like the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB). Underpinning this "call to action" is a belief that long-term factors must be upheld in the management of a business alongside short-term pressures, and that the balance has dangerously skewed toward short-term thinking. By competing through this universal framework and orienting toward "sustainable value creation", Moore suggested, corporations could reverse the erosion of trust that leading companies (if not capitalism in general) are experiencing.
In December 2017, Moore published a second book, One Hurdle at a Time: An Olympian's Guide to Clearing Life's Obstacles,[13] intended for a younger audience, approximately ages 8–14. He collaborated with award-winning children's author Brad Herzog in an attempt to offer a glimpse into his "race of a lifetime".
References
- Olympedia
- ^ "Jimmy Curran Bio". anentscottishrunning.com. June 6, 2016. Retrieved March 21, 2021.
- ^ Don Aines (August 3, 2008). "Academy in Pa. has Olympic tradition". Archived from the original on March 30, 2017. Retrieved March 21, 2021.
- ^ a b Barr, Josh (September 23, 2020). "Charlie Moore: An athlete with a purpose". United States Olympic & Paralympic Museum. Retrieved January 8, 2021.
- ^ a b "USATF mourns loss of Olympic Champion Charles Moore". usatf.org. October 13, 2020. Retrieved January 8, 2021.
- ^ a b c d "Cornell Mourns Loss Of Charlie Moore '51, Olympic Legend And Former AD". Cornell University Athletics. October 10, 2020. Retrieved January 8, 2021.
- ^ "Revisiting the 400 m hurdles with a crazy proposal". Rethinking Athletics. January 16, 2017. Retrieved March 21, 2021.
- ^ "1952 Olympic 400m hurdles champion Moore dies". www.worldathletics.org. October 11, 2020. Retrieved January 8, 2021.
- ^ Herzog, Brad (March 1, 2015). "The Best Sports: In a (somewhat) systematic survey, we rank the finest athletes in University history". cornellalumnimagazine.com. Retrieved March 21, 2021.
- ^ "CRO Magazine CEO of the Year Awards Nominees 2008". July 10, 2008. Archived from the original on March 30, 2017. Retrieved March 29, 2017.
- ^ "CR Magazine Announces Responsible CEO of Year Award and Lifetime Achievement Award Finalists". prnewswire.com. September 11, 2013. Retrieved March 21, 2021.
- ISBN 9780998371009.
- ^ One Hurdle at a Time: An Olympian's Guide to Clearing Life's Obstacles
External links
- Charles Moore at the USATF Hall of Fame (archived)
- Charles Moore at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Charles Hewes Moore Jr. at Olympics.com