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Friday, March 12, 2010
Teacher, Principal Had 30-Year Career With APS Educator was well-liked by fellow faculty and students
By Lloyd Jojola
Journal Staff Writer
Jackie Moore spent some 30 years as an Albuquerque Public Schools educator, a career that began as an elementary school teacher and moved to the ranks of administration.
"She was very well-liked by both faculty and students," said Marilyn Hanna, a retired school nurse who worked with Moore at Mark Twain Elementary, where Moore was principal in the 1980s.
Part of the school's role, at the time, was as a special education center for students with special needs, Hanna said.
"She was very caring to the students in the school," Hanna said. "She had a big heart and would listen to all the students' complaints, so to speak, as well as the parents; she was very good with the parents."
Moore died Feb. 21 at 86.
A memorial service will be held at 10:30 a.m. today at French Funerals and Cremations, 10500 Lomas NE. Burial will be in Santa Fe.
Jacqueline J. Moore, who moved with her husband, John E. Moore, to Albuquerque in the late 1950s, began her APS career in 1959, as a teacher at Kirtland Elementary
Back then, there was no building at the Kirtland location, so they each had a little house to teach out of, said Nancy Sharp, a fellow second-grade teacher at the time.
Moore and Sharp would work together again, when Moore was principal at Mark Twain Elementary and Sharp was librarian at the school.
"She always put the students first," Sharp said. "She liked to be around children."
Moore, after Kirtland, was a teacher at Eubank Elementary, assistant principal at Laguna Elementary and principal at the Sierra Vista and Matheson Park elementary schools. She also was director of elementary instruction from 1977-1978. Her final position was as Mark Twain principal from 1980 to 1988, when she retired.
"She supported her teachers real well as principal," Sharp said. "When things would arise, she would always have time to talk with them and hear their point and stand up for them."
A small woman with a bubbly personality and fun to be around, Moore's "happiest moments were when former students or staff members recognized her and stopped to say hello or tell her how much they valued their time at one of her schools," according to a published notice.
Moore was born in Stephens, Ark., and earned a bachelor's degree from Austin College in Dallas. After moving to Albuquerque, Moore received her teaching certification and a master's in education administration from the University of New Mexico.
Moore's survivors include two daughters, Suzanne Mullane of Albuquerque and Mary A. Moore of Portland, Ore.; three grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
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