Evelyn Mulry Moore

Evelyn Marie Mulry Moore (October 20, 1942 – December 17, 2012) was an American athlete who won two gold medals in swimming events at the 1964 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo and a gold and two silver medals at the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv. She also competed in field events at the National Wheelchair Games in the 1960s and 1970s. She was inducted into the National Wheelchair Athletic Association Hall of Fame in 1978.

Evelyn Mulry Moore
A young white girl, smiling and looking downward
Evelyn Mulry, from a 1957 newspaper
Born
Evelyn Marie Mulry

October 20, 1942
Brooklyn, New York
DiedDecember 17, 2012
Titusville, Florida
OccupationWheelchair athlete
Known forMedalist at 1964 and 1968 Summer Paralympic Games; National Wheelchair Athletic Association Hall of Fame inductee (1978)

Early life and education

Evelyn Marie Mulry was born in Brooklyn and raised in Port Washington, New York, the daughter of Philip Mulry and Gertrude Elizabeth Jones Mulry.[1] Her father was a lawyer. She was a Girl Scout and played basketball in high school.[2] She graduated from St. Mary's High School in Manhasset, New York in 1960.[3]

In 1961, at age 18, Mulry was paralyzed in a car accident, and spent almost a year learning to live with quadriplegia at the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine. She started college at Pace University before the accident, and transferred the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, starting in 1963.[1]

Career

At the University of Illinois, Mulry became a member of the school's disabled students' organization, Delta Sigma Omicron,[4] and the Gizz Kids wheelchair sports program.[5][6] She competed in swimming[7] and table tennis events in the 1964 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo,[8][9] and at the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv. She won two gold medals in Tokyo, and another gold plus two silver medals at Tel Aviv.

Moore also competed at the National Wheelchair Games in 1964,[10] 1965,[11] 1967,[12] 1969,[5] 1975, 1976, and 1978.[13] She entered bowling[11] and field events (discus, shot put, javelin).[4] She was inducted into the National Wheelchair Athletic Association Hall of Fame in 1978, in the same induction group as B. Cairbre McCann and Julius Duval.[14][15]

Moore worked for 17 years as an administrator at the State of Illinois Department of Public Aid in Champaign. She retired to Florida in 1986.[1]

Personal life

Mulry married Richard Eugene Moore in 1965. They had a son, Justin (Judd); she also helped to raise her husband's children from an earlier marriage. She was widowed with Richard died in 2001; she died in Titusville, Florida in 2012, aged 70 years.[1]

References
  1. "Evelyn Moore". The News-Gazette. December 30, 2012. Retrieved 2021-07-27.
  2. "Girl Scouts Lead the Outdoor Life". Newsday (Nassau Edition). 1957-08-12. p. 35. Retrieved 2021-07-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. St. Mary's High School, Annual Alumni Memorial Mass (October 27, 2013).
  4. Delta Sigma Omicron (1976). "Sports: National Games '76" (PDF). Sigma Signs: 16–17.
  5. "Gizz Kids Win National Honors". The Tribune. 1969-06-23. p. 8. Retrieved 2021-07-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Mrs. Moore Paces Gizz Kids To Wheelchair Games Title". The New York Times. 1969-06-23. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-07-28.
  7. Carter, Joe (1964-11-03). "66 Wheelchair Athletes on Way to Tokyo Games". The Honolulu Advertiser. p. 28. Retrieved 2021-07-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. "64 Set to Fly to Paralympics". Daily News. 1965-07-11. p. 596. Retrieved 2021-07-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. "Americans Rolling for More Gold". Dayton Daily News. 1964-11-03. p. 14. Retrieved 2021-07-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. "Buffalo, Pennsylvania Clubs Lead Wheel Chair Games". Sioux City Journal. 1964-06-20. p. 9. Retrieved 2021-07-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. "Wheelchair Pin Champ Repeats". Daily News. 1965-06-12. p. 264. Retrieved 2021-07-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. "Mrs. Moore Wins". Southern Illinoisan. 1967-06-18. p. 12. Retrieved 2021-07-28 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. Grim, Hubert F. Jr. (1978-06-19). "Nationals Close in Record Form". The News Leader. p. 9. Retrieved 2021-07-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. "WWRC Suggested for Pan Am Games". The News Leader. 1978-06-19. p. 9. Retrieved 2021-07-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. "'Wheelers' Selected into Hall of Fame". The Messenger. 1978-06-21. p. 19. Retrieved 2021-07-28 – via Newspapers.com.
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