Remembrances

James Edwin Moore died April 14, 2022, of complications from aspiration pneumonia in Vancouver, Wash., at the age of 92. He was surrounded by his children.

Born in Detroit in 1929, Jim was the first of his family to graduate from college after serving stateside during the Korean War. He ultimately received his PhD in music education from the University of Michigan. He taught as a music teacher in Detroit area high schools and later as a professor at Cochise College in Douglas, Ariz., and Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho.

In 1968 he accepted a position at Northwestern University, where he took on progressive administrative responsibilities until he retired in 1993 as director of admissions, career services and summer session at what is now the Bienen School of Music. During his tenure he reorganized and modernized the national admissions office, oversaw the school’s advertising and recruitment campaigns, edited the school’s Fanfare magazine and directed its summer National High School Music Institute. One of his most rewarding roles was traveling the country to audition and recruit new students. He was well liked by all who knew him.

In 1960 Jim met Carol Barney, who was working at Carty’s Music Store in Ypsilanti, Mich. They were married in 1962 and stayed together for 56 years until Carol’s passing in 2018. After Jim’s retirement, the two returned to Arizona where they built a house in Tucson. They traveled extensively, were active bridge players and enjoyed the weather and mountain views in their new home. Jim sang in the choir at Saint Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church.

Jim is survived by his children, sons Colin and Clay Moore and daughter Harker Brautighan, and sister Garlin Green.

James Arthur Ibers, emeritus professor of chemistry and former Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry, Chicago, Dec. 14, 2021, at age 91. Ibers joined the faculty at Northwestern in 1965 and retired after more than 50 years but continued his research and involvement with the University throughout the rest of his life. Ibers was a pioneer in the field of X-ray crystallography as it applied to inorganic chemistry. Chemistry department chair Teri Odom told Chemistry & Engineering News that Ibers’ work made “the determination of metal complexes possible, encouraged the synthesis of new compounds and led to powerful synthetic methodologies.” He and two other members of the chemistry department, Fred Basolo and Ralph G. Pearson ’43 PhD, both now deceased, formed the group known as BIP (Basolo-Ibers-Pearson), where inorganic chemistry students would gather regularly to present research papers. Ibers continued to attend meetings up until his retirement, and the group continues to meet today. Ibers received numerous honors throughout his career, including the American Chemical Society’s Linus Pauling Medal, the California Institute of Technology Distinguished Alumni Award and the American Crystallographic Association’s Martin J. Buerger Award. Born in Los Angeles, Ibers earned his bachelor’s degree and his doctorate from the California Institute of Technology. He worked as a chemist at Shell Development Co. in Emeryville, Calif., and at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York before joining the Northwestern faculty. Ibers and his wife, Joyce, were married for 69 years and had two children. Read a remembrance of Ibers by Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry, and see Ibers’ memoir for the American Crystallographic Association History project.