Who’s Who in Orthopedics
throughout his career and made him an outstand- ing citizen, world-famous surgeon, and devoted husband and father. Prominent in the address were favorite quotations: from Thomas Carlyle,
“Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness,” and from Longfellow’s
“The Ladder Of St. Augustine”:
The heights by great men reached and kept Were not obtained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.
Austin Moore looked upon life as a challenge;
he believed that man succeeded or failed in direct proportion to his own desires and responses. He told the graduating class in 1963, “there will be times when the way is uncertain. . . . Remember that which cannot be avoided must be endured;
the happy man is the one who makes adjustments and don’t forget the master word is work.”
Perhaps Dr. Moore’s approach to life is best described by one of his favorite quotations from William Ernest Henley’s “Invictus”:
It matters not how straight the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate;
I am the captain of my soul.
Austin Moore left behind him a heritage of rugged individuality, of humility, and of service.
He died suddenly at a time when he was still active and enjoying the fruits of a distinguished career. He left behind his wife Mary Frances, and a son Austin Jr.
He gained a world; he gave that world Its grandest lesson: “On! Sail on!”
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Austin Talley MOORE
1899–1963
Austin Talley Moore was born June 21, 1899, in Ridgeway, South Carolina. He graduated from Wofford College at Spartansburg, South Carolina, in 1920, and in June 1963 a grateful Alma Mater made him the recipient of an honorary doctorate degree.
Dr. Moore completed his medical school work at the Medical College of South Carolina in 1924. He interned at the Columbia Hospital in Columbia, South Carolina, from 1924 to 1925, and then went north to study and work with Pro- fessor A. Bruce Gill at the University of Penn- sylvania until 1927. He then returned to Columbia to practice orthopedic surgery.
In 1939, he founded the Moore Clinic in Columbia, where his initiative, enthusiasm, and hard work made him an international figure. Dr.
Moore devoted himself unselfishly to teaching the advances in orthopedic surgery in which he played a great part. His lectures carried him around the world and to practically every large metropolitan center in this country.
Austin Moore was a pioneer in the use of the femoral-head prosthesis; his work on this and on Vitallium made available the techniques and material that have restored the ability to work and a good life to literally thousands of elderly patients.
Dr. Moore gave the Commencement Address to the graduating class at Wofford College in June 1963. His address to the young graduates embodied the philosophy that guided him
