MAN OF WISDOM
EDWARD A. MOSES, 1942-2010 Following are excerpts from a tribute made at Ed Moses’ memorial service by Dean of the Crummer Graduate School of Business Craig McAllaster, March 2010.
Accelerated MBA programs. He was instrumental in the expansion of Crummer Hall in 1999. It was during his tenure that the school was first ranked by both Forbes and U.S. News & World Report magazines as one of the top business schools in the nation.
THE LEGACY OF A MAN is based on the entirety of his life, and by any measure Ed Moses’ legacy was huge. Ed joined the Crummer Graduate School of Business in September 1989, serving as dean, professor of finance, and director of the Executive MBA program. He also was named Bank of America Professor of
Ed took Crummer to the next level during his deanship. Early in his tenure when Crummer was experiencing a decline in full-time students, he led the faculty to a solution. Within one year, the Early Advantage MBA and Accelerated MBA programs were created, approved, and enrolled. I don’t know of many academic organizations that can respond like that, but under Ed’s leadership it was in the bag.
Finance, recognizing his excellence in teaching, research, and service.
The Bush Executive Center is another important part of his legacy. He knew that in order to grow we needed more space, so he worked very
In all of his roles at Rollins, Ed showed a consistent and enduring love for teaching through his interactions with students and alumni.
hard to bring the Bush Executive Center online in 1999. We would never be where we are today without that important addition to Crummer Hall.
More than 60 percent of all Crummer alumni graduated while he worked at the school.
When Ed stepped down as dean, the school did a special edition of the alumni newsletter entitled “The Wisdom of Moses.” How true!
Ed was a consummate schmoozer—a “people person” on steroids. I first met Ed in 1994, when, as the new dean at Crummer, he hired me to run the Executive MBA program. I remember him sticking his hand out and saying “How ya doing!” Friendship was just Ed—you could not meet this man and spend any time with him and not feel his sincerity.
The Crummer family will miss his smiling face, his Southern hospitality, his sayings like “mother finance,” and his unwavering commitment to our students. His dedication to Crummer—students, staff members, faculty, community partners—remains unmatched. Ed saw the best in everyone and helped make all our lives better.
He was the best dean I ever worked for. What I respected most about him was his expectation of excellence. He let you do your job, but was always there when you needed him. As dean, Ed established both the Early Advantage MBA and the
The family has established a scholarship in honor of Ed Moses for students at the Crummer School. To make a donation, go to rollins.edu/crummer/alumni/onlinedonation.
THE COLORFUL ECONOMIST
WAYNE D. HALES, 1929-2010 LONGTIME PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS and former
store, Hales Toyland, which expanded into a second store. They closed the
associate dean of the Crummer School of Business Wayne
stores in 1964 and Wayne went into the family construction business with his
Hales died on March 16, 2010 at age 81.
dad for a time before deciding he wanted to pursue higher education. In 1965,
Wayne taught “The Dismal Science,” but his life was
Wayne entered Oklahoma State University, where he earned his BA magna
anything but dismal. He was born in Oklahoma City on
cum laude in two-and-a-half years. He continued his education there,
the eve of the Great Depression, February 4, 1929. His
receiving his MS in economics in 1971 and, two years later, completing
mother was a bookkeeper and seamstress who followed
his PhD while simultaneously teaching at Rollins.
jobs to Montana, Oregon, Texas, and back to Oklahoma
“It was at Rollins, in a career spanning almost 40 years, that my dad
during those difficult years. Wayne enlisted in the U.S.
was the happiest he had ever been,” Steven recalled. “Dad was at his best
Army in 1946 and, as a member of the 71st Signal Corps,
in the classroom, with a quick wit and teaching style that made his classes
was part of the occupation force in postwar Japan. There,
memorable. He and my mother made a life that revolved around friends
he became smitten by art and architecture and learned
and the College. The elements of happiness, friends, and a job he loved
to appreciate the melding of cultures when he saw the Frank Lloyd Wright-
intersected in a wonderful way.” Wayne was a man of diverse interests and talents whose love of life
designed Imperial Hotel in Tokyo and the Imperial Palace in Beijing. After the war, Wayne went to work for an oil and gas exploration
remained undimmed even in his later years. He loved unique cars and was a
company in Texas, where he met his future wife, Joy Wofford, “with whom
crack mechanic. He and Joy opened an antique store in the early ‘90s. “Once
he exchanged a flurry of letters—his always beginning with ‘My Dearest Joy,’
again, they were collaborators in retail, partners in the pursuit of beauty and,
wrote his son, Steven, in a memorial dedication to his father. “This associ-
best of all, a bargain,” commented Steven.
ation with the Democratic Wofford clan began a conversion from naïve
It was a crushing blow when Joy died in 2009, but Wayne rallied. As
conservative to caring liberal which would inform the rest of his life,” Steven
Steven noted, “In his final year, Dad traveled to San Diego, Oklahoma City,
noted with amusement.
Washington, DC, South Carolina, and Philadelphia, and he was planning a
Wayne’s understanding of economics was not originally academic, rather
trip to Europe. He was going to sell his his Cobra and buy a Lotus. We worked
practical and diverse. The couple went to live in Oklahoma City, where Wayne
out daily and played golf every Tuesday. And he kept to a vigorous social
engaged in varied employment in the early 1950s—television cameraman,
schedule. ‘Growing old is not for wimps,’ he once said.” Wayne will be remembered fondly by the Rollins community for the
lighting director, and union organizer. The latter activities got him banished to Alabama for two years by the parent company. He and Joy later opened a toy
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colorful way in which he lived his career and his life.—Bobby Davis ’82
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