Lee Moore AIS class of 1974 aisalum@AndreaAndLee.org

For me, AIS was part of a very positive transformation in my life. When I arrived at AIS in the Fall of my 7th grade I was a pretty shy person. The openness and trust of AIS was wonderful.

The teachers and the way that we related to them was great. I remember that one year the teachers put on two Halloween parties – one for the middle school and one for the high school. I remember expressing interest in meteorology to Mr. Strong and then some months later some instruments arrived as well as a “chicken coop” and I became a school “weatherman”. I also remember the many musical projects Mr. Adams energetically produced.

After I finished 8th grade, I returned with my family to College Park, Maryland where I graduated from high school and then went to the Univ. of Maryland. After finishing college, I moved to Rochester, New York where I went to the Univ. of Rochester and then to work for Xerox in software design. I was married in 1990 and I have a daughter and a son. My wife and I met in a volleyball league and we have played on different club teams for a number of years. I still enjoy photography and I trace some of that back to AIS. (anybody remember the darkroom?)

In “it’s a small world category”, one of my friends from college later met and married AIS alum Priscilla Brown. Priscilla once told me about her own chance encounter with Rekha Nimgade on a Pittsburgh bus! Wow. When I was a grad. student, I had a fantasy about running away and joining the US foreign service. I went to downtown Rochester to take the exam. As I entered the building I looked up and noticed that it was the “Kenneth B. Keating Federal Building”. That brought back a rush of memories. (Keating was the US ambassador to India during the Nixon administration.)

I look forward to meeting you all at some future reunion!

Lee

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