Dorothy Beatrice Gleason was born in Jersey City, New Jersey on April 16, 1905 to Albert J. Gleason and Emma Searle Gleason. Her father owned and operated Drake Secretarial Colleges in New Jersey. She attended Bergen School for Girls in Jersey City from 1916-1920, then went to the Beard School for Girls in Orange, New Jersey from 1920-1923. She entered Mount Holyoke College in 1924. In 1928, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. She recieved her Master of Arts degree in English from Columbia University in 1935. From November 1929 until August 1931 she worked as a hostess and secretary at the Mayflower Apartments in Jersey City. From approximately 1939 until her retirement in 1968, she was the owner and president of the Drake Secretarial Colleges. She married William Cecil Moore on September 3, 1938 in Tigrett, Tennessee. Her husband worked at Teaneck High School in Teaneck, New Jersey, first as an English teacher and later as the chairman of the English department. Their daughter Dorothy Anne was born on December 13, 1939. She died on February 13, 1993 at her home in Teaneck, New Jersey, at the age of eighty-seven.
From the guide to the Moore papers MS 0712., 1924-1993., (Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections)
