John Lynn Moorhead, Trinity '35 and editor of The Chronicle's 30th volume, died Monday at his home in Durham. He was 92.
Moorhead, a native of Sunbury, Pa., worked for 50 years in advertising and public relations after graduating from the University.
His promotion work included initiatives for the Research Triangle Park and the North Carolina state government. Moorhead was also publicity chair for Durham's Centennial Celebration.
He received the "Distinguished Service Award" from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Medicine for his work promoting the North Carolina Good Health Program.
During Moorhead's editorship of The Chronicle, the newspaper transitioned from publishing once a week to twice a week.
It also became one of the first college newspapers to subscribe to a major wire service, United Press International.
Family members remembered Moorhead as a lover of people, golf, travel, journalism, writing and Duke basketball.
Moorhead is survived by his wife, Harriet Wannamaker, Women's College '34, to whom he was married for 68 years; his three daughters, Lynn Petch and her husband Richard of Calabash; Mary Ball and her husband Hugh of Leesburg, Va.; and Joanna Taylor and her husband Ralph, of Washington, D.C.; and two grandchildren, Alison and John Duncan Taylor.
A funeral service will be held 2 p.m. Wednesday at First Presbyterian Church of Durham.
Moorhead will be buried at Maplewood Cemetery.
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