 Moseley Waite
Moseley has been associated with Eagle's Nest since 1945 as a camper, counselor, leader of the Carolina's Camp for Children with Diabetes, and trustee. His first year at camp was just at the end of World War II, “a timely beginning.” A year or two after that, campers that came from Florida arrived in a polio quarantine. For several years while Mo was there as a Junior Counselor, a number of campers and staff attended from Cuba. The Camp for Children with Diabetes “was also a wonderful experience; we all learned so much from those children and the medical staff.” Mo has found being a trustee for over thirty years most rewarding, seeing the creation of Hante, the Birchtree program and, most recently, the Outdoor Academy.
Mo attended public schools in Winter Park, FL for most of his schooling, then attending Rollins College, where his father was on the faculty. From there he went north to Duke for the Ph.D., which he received in 1963. He remained there another three years in research and then migrated to Utrecht, The Netherlands, for more postdoctoral training, “a wonderful experience.”
Mo chose a career in science education. Following his training in Biochemistry in 1967, he joined the faculty on The Bowman Gray School of Medicine (now the Wake Forest School of Medicine) as an Assistant Professor. He remained on the faculty there for 32 years, 21 as Departmental Chairman. Involved in teaching both medical students and graduate students with a major emphasis on research, he also served as Associate Director of the School's Cancer Center for 20 years. He remains active in research with a research group in Pulmonary Medicine.
Now, Mo pursues his interest in children's education through his lifelong involvement with Eagle's Nest, which he claims is probably the most satisfying activity he has engaged in, coupled with his interest in land conservation, both in North Carolina and in Maine where he spends the summers. He is on the board of a local land conservation foundation, The Downeast Coastal Conservancy. He now serves as the head of the Stewardship Committee, which gets him out to appreciate the fantastic Bold Coast of Downeast Maine. Also, he has developed an interest in furniture making and wood turning. The silent auction at the fall Eagle's Nest trustee meeting provides a good outlet for some of his work, he believes, and brings in scholarship funds for campers and students.
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