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PROPOSED RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, Stanley D. Moore will be remembered in history as the Godfather of the census, an impressive 60 years in census leadership in the United States Department of Commerce.
WHEREAS, Stanley D. Moore is a native of Washington DC; and
WHEREAS, Stanley D. Moore began his life's work for the United States Census Bureau on July 24, 1960, as a systems computer analyst. As a young computer programmer, he was one of the first in the country to work on the historic UNIVAC Mainframe computer. He served as District Office Manager, Special Assistant to the Chief, Assistant Regional Director, Associate Director for Field Operations, Regional Director and finally National Advisor to the Director; and
WHEREAS, Stanley D. Moore was instrumental in developing the Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing system (TIGER), a technologically advanced database system that is used nationwide for mapping geographic data. TIGER has become an essential component in the compilation and tabulation of census data. It is the very tool that gave us the ability to create Global Positioning Systems also known as GPS; and
WHEREAS, Stanley D. Moore was appointed Regional Director of the Chicago Regional Office of the U.S. Census Bureau in 1974. As Regional Director, he was responsible for overseeing all census operations in Arkansas, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin; and
WHEREAS, Stanley D. Moore was instrumental, in the 1970's, in the desegregation of Chicago housing. He fought a successful four-year legal battle against racial discrimination. In recognition of this fact, he was selected as a Most Valuable Community Player by the Leadership Council of Metropolitan Open Communities; and
WHEREAS, Stanley D. Moore, along with his wife, raised their children and have lived in Beverly for 42 years. Because of his contributions to the community, the street in which he lives was renamed, "Stanley D. Moore Way";...
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