(1957–1958) President of the Geological Society of America (1957–1958) President of the American Geological Institute (1959–1960) Editor - Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (1920–1926) Editor - Journal of Paleontology (1930–1939) Editor - Journal of Sedimentary Petrology (1931–1936) Editor - Kansas Paleontogical Contributions Legacy and awards In his later years, ill health confined Moore to his bed, while he continued revisions of the Treatise. He died in Kansas in 1974. Moore was survived by his wife Lillian, and daughter Marjorie Ann Snave. The main Kansas Geological Survey building on the University's west campus was named for Moore in 1973. He received the non-alumnus Distinguished Service Citation from University of Kansas in 1970. Moore received an honorary doctorate from his Denison University in 1935. He received the F.V. Hayden Medal from the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences in 1956. He also received the Sidney Powers Medal from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists in 1956. He received the first conferred Paleontological Society Medal in 1963. Moore was honored with the Prix Paul Fourmarier Gold Medal from the Académie Royale de Belgique in 1966. In 1968, he received the Wollaston Medal from the Geological Society of London in 1968. Moore was honoured with the Mary Clark Thompson Medal of the National Academy of Science in 1970 and the first Twenhofel Medal from SEPM (the Society for Sedimentary Geology) in 1972. Each year, the Moore Medal is presented in his honor by SEPM for excellence in paleontology. Moore designed the G-Hawk, the symbol of geology at KU. The ancestor of the G-Hawk was Jayhawkornis kansasensis, which Moore illustrated and promoted, was featured in the 1954 comic strip Pogo. Selected bibliography Historical Geology, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1933. Evolution and Classification of Paleozoic Crinoids Raymond Cecil Moore and Lowell Robert Laudon, Arno Press, 1943 Co-author, Invertebrate Fossils, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1952. Founder & First Editor, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Boulder, Colorado, The Geological Society of America & Lawrence, Kansas, University of Kansas Press, 1953 - work-in-progress. References External links Rock Stars profile of Raymond Cecil Moore Wollaston Medal winners 1892 births 1974 deaths American paleontologists People from Roslyn, Washington Presidents of the Geological Society of America