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About Help Contact login Rev John Moore SJ Title: Rev First Name: John Middle Names: Preferred Name: Surname: Moore Order: SJ Date of Birth: 05-Aug-1918 Place of Birth: Yarram VIC Country of Birth: Australia Date of Ordination: Jan - 1949 Place of Ordination: Country of Ordination: Australia Ordination Diocese: Seminary: Date of Death: 02-Oct-1988 Place of Death: Hazaribag Country of Death: India Date of Burial: Place of Burial: Country of Burial: Find A Grave URL: FindaGrave - Person Photo FindaGrave - Grave Photo Biographical Notes Fr David Strong SJ, The Australian dictionary of Jesuit biography 1848-2015, Second Edition, 2017: Moore, John Teacher, administrator, missionary; born Yarram, Victoria, 5 August 1918; died Hazaribag, India, 2 October 1988, aged 70. John Moore was from country Victoria, and always had fond memories of country life. He went to Xavier College, Burke Hall, and then to the senior school in 1932. During these school days he was a good student, but had the reputation for an unorthodox approach to school discipline. He was a humanistic thinker and teacher, and followed an inspired path in running a school, one which others, especially those put to work under him, often found hard to follow. He entered the Jesuit noviciate in Melbourne in 1936, and followed the usual studies of juniorate and philosophy studies in Melbourne. For regency he went to Xavier College as teacher and prefect. Then followed theology in Sydney, with ordination in January 1949. Tertianship was at Sevenhill with John Meagher as instructor. Moore arrived in India in March 1951 as one of the first 'team' of six Australians to the Hazaribag region. After language study, he settled in Hazaribag and, in January 1952, opened the doors to the first students at the new St Xavier's College. He built and organised the school with great business and administrative skills. He formed a strong bonding relationship with both students and parents, as he was essentially a caring and compassionate man. Discipline and routine matters were left to other teachers. The school grew in strength with the continual flow of scholastics from Australia. In 1966 Moore made a new start, to build and organise another school at Bokaro Steel City, and a new St Xavier's College. One difference was that it was co-educational and provided for poor students. It became a happy environment in which to live and work. At the school he started a Social Service League among his students, which took as its main project the teaching of poor children in the vicinity who were not attending any school. This was to develop into a primary school for seven hundred students, catering for the less fortunate, supported entirely from the income of the main school. At all times during his teaching career, Moore encouraged students to think for themselves and confront the problems of life. He was also keen on writing on Jesuit education and gave many speeches on the topic. After he had finished with this school in 1980, he became involved with the Colloquium and the Curriculum Improvement Programme. Moore was one of the pathfinders for these projects in India. His work took a toll on his health, as he had two heart attacks, one at Bokaro Steel City, and one attending an educational conference in Manila in 1987. Moore's quiet, reserved and even withdrawn nature was sometimes off-putting to those who knew him. But he was a gentle man, courteous and supportive. In his last years he was sought after as confessor and spiritual guide. He hated anyone fussing over him, and did not relish the prospect of the disablement of old age. He changed also from being single-minded in his focus of education as the Jesuit field of apostolate in India, to an appreciation of wider fields of activity in later years. He died alone in his room after another heart attack. (Reproduced by permission of Fr David Strong SJ.)

Title:

Rev

First Name:

John

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Preferred Name:

Surname:

Moore

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Date of Birth:

05-Aug-1918

Place of Birth:

Yarram VIC

Country of Birth:

Australia

Date of Ordination:

Jan - 1949

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Country of Ordination:

Australia

Ordination Diocese:

Seminary:

Date of Death:

02-Oct-1988

Place of Death:

Hazaribag

Country of Death:

India

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FindaGrave - Person Photo

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Fr David Strong SJ, The Australian dictionary of Jesuit biography 1848-2015, Second Edition, 2017:
Moore, John

Teacher, administrator, missionary; born Yarram, Victoria, 5 August 1918; died Hazaribag, India, 2 October 1988, aged 70.

John Moore was from country Victoria, and always had fond memories of country life. He went to Xavier College, Burke Hall, and then to the senior school in 1932. During these school days he was a good student, but had the reputation for an unorthodox approach to school discipline. He was a humanistic thinker and teacher, and followed an inspired path in running a school, one which others, especially those put to work under him, often found hard to follow.

He entered the Jesuit noviciate in Melbourne in 1936, and followed the usual studies of juniorate and philosophy studies in Melbourne. For regency he went to Xavier College as teacher and prefect. Then followed theology in Sydney, with ordination in January 1949. Tertianship was at Sevenhill with John Meagher as instructor.

Moore arrived in India in March 1951 as one of the first 'team' of six Australians to the Hazaribag region. After language study, he settled in Hazaribag and, in January 1952, opened the doors to the first students at the new St Xavier's College. He built and organised the school with great business and administrative skills. He formed a strong bonding relationship with both students and parents, as he was essentially a caring and compassionate man. Discipline and routine matters were left to other teachers. The school grew in strength with the continual flow of scholastics from Australia.

In 1966 Moore made a new start, to build and organise another school at Bokaro Steel City, and a new St Xavier's College. One difference was that it was co-educational and provided for poor students. It became a happy environment in which to live and work. At the school he started a Social Service League among his students, which took as its main project the teaching of poor children in the vicinity who were not attending any school. This was to develop into a primary school for seven hundred students, catering for the less fortunate, supported entirely from the income of the main school. At all times during his teaching career, Moore encouraged students to think for themselves and confront the problems of life. He was also keen on writing on Jesuit education and gave many speeches on the topic.

After he had finished with this school in 1980, he became involved with the Colloquium and the Curriculum Improvement Programme. Moore was one of the pathfinders for these projects in India. His work took a toll on his health, as he had two heart attacks, one at Bokaro Steel City, and one attending an educational conference in Manila in 1987.

Moore's quiet, reserved and even withdrawn nature was sometimes off-putting to those who knew him. But he was a gentle man, courteous and supportive. In his last years he was sought after as confessor and spiritual guide. He hated anyone fussing over him, and did not relish the prospect of the disablement of old age. He changed also from being single-minded in his focus of education as the Jesuit field of apostolate in India, to an appreciation of wider fields of activity in later years. He died alone in his room after another heart attack.

(Reproduced by permission of Fr David Strong SJ.)

Rev John Moore SJ

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