University of Pennsylvania. Trustees of the Moore School of Electrical Engineering.

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The Trustees for the Moore School of Electrical Engineering were established by a bequest in the will of Alfred Fitler Moore. After creating several life trusts for his family, Moore directed that the remainder of his estate be applied to a trust for the creation of school of electrical engineering which would be named the Moore School of Electrical Engineering. Upon the termination of the life trusts in 1923, a board of trustees for the school was formed and it entered into an agreement with the University of Pennsylvania which would make the University the managers of the new school. The trustees of the University would be ex officio members of the Board of Managers of school with full power to conduct the school.

The University of Pennsylvania pulled all the courses in electrical engineering from the Towne Scientific School to create a new department called the Moore School of Electrical Engineering in 1923, funded by the Alfred Fitler Moore's endowment. Beginning in the 1960s the income from the endowment, tuition and research grants was not enough to cover the expenses of the school. The Philadelphia Orphans' Court granted the trustees of the Moore School permission to appoint the University of Pennsylvania as the successor trustees and merge the trust directly into the endowment funds of the University in 1989.

From the description of Records, 1927-1990. (University of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 122365695

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