Obituaries

Survivors include his companion, of Chevy Chase; three children from his marriage, Jeffrey Glazer of Bethesda, Paul Glazer of Chevy Chase and Shirley Glazer of Seattle; a brother; a sister; and four grandchildren.

-- Joe Holley

Gary C. HongMontgomery College Official

Gary C. Hong, 58, who had spent the past decade as program director of the Lifelong Learning Institute, a continuing education program at Montgomery College, died May 26 at his home in Silver Spring. He had coronary artery disease.

For the learning program, Mr. Hong started a speakers series that included L. Paul Bremer, President Bush's top civilian administrator in Iraq, and Mike McCurry, a press secretary for President Bill Clinton.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Hong was a researcher at Congressional Quarterly; a writer and editor at the American Health Care Association; and manager of a clergy leadership project at the National Council on Aging. He was chairman of the Montgomery County Commission on Aging in the late 1990s.

Gary Chen Hong was born in Washington and raised in Silver Spring, where he was a 1968 graduate of Montgomery Blair High School. He was a 1972 government and politics graduate of the University of Maryland.

He was president of the Montgomery County Young Democrats group in 1975 and 1976, followed by service on the Montgomery County Democratic Central Committee. In 1982, he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Maryland House of Delegates.

He collected athletic memorabilia related to the University of Maryland and Washington's baseball teams. He coached softball, including a women's softball team that competed in the National Senior Olympics in Orlando in 1999.

An amateur photographer, he won gold ribbons for his photos at the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair.

Survivors include three sisters, Gloria Hong of Rockville, Joyce Yee of Derwood and Audrey Hong of Silver Spring; and a brother, Bruce Hong of Clinton.

-- Adam Bernstein

Norma L. MorganGarden Club President

Norma L. Morgan, 84, a former president of the Sumner Garden Club in Bethesda, died May 25 at Sibley Memorial Hospital after a fall a week earlier at her home in Bethesda.

Mrs. Morgan lived in the Sumner neighborhood of Bethesda and was a member of area citizens groups. She was a member of St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church in Bethesda and the Chevy Chase Club.

Norma Lawrence was born in Mitchell, S.D., and raised in Washington. She graduated from Wilson High School and attended George Washington University.

During World War II, she was a secretary for the War Production Board and did volunteer work for the United Service Organizations and Army-Navy Wives Club.

Her former memberships included the Washington Club and parents' groups with St. Albans School and National Cathedral School.

Her husband, Jo V. Morgan Jr., whom she married in 1943, died in 1999.

Survivors include three children, Carol Compton of Falls City, Ore., Jo L. Morgan of Bethesda and Susan Maguire of Tampa; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

-- Adam Bernstein

Robert W. MooreForeign Service Officer

Robert W. Moore, 86, a retired Foreign Service officer who had seven overseas assignments with the State Department, died May 9 of a brain tumor at Fairfax Nursing Center. He lived in McLean.

Mr. Moore was born in Boone, Iowa, and grew up in South Dakota and Chicago. He was a graduate of the University of Chicago.

After serving in the Army during World War II, he joined the Foreign Service in 1946. He was assigned to U.S. embassies in Paraguay, Chile, Ecuador and Malaysia and to consulates in Indonesia and Scotland. In addition, he was the consul general in Karachi, Pakistan, and Vancouver, B.C.

Mr. Moore received a master's degree in international relations from Tufts University in Medford, Mass., in 1957 and a master's degree from the Army War College in 1963.

Among his assignments in Washington, he was deputy inspector general of the Foreign Service. He retired in 1983.

He was a member of Diplomatic and Consular Officers, Retired (DACOR) and the American Association of Individual Investors.

Survivors include his wife of 58 years, Jean Hunter Moore of McLean; three sons, John R. Moore of Austin, William H. Moore of Atlanta and Daniel K. Moore of Vienna; a sister; and three grandchildren.

-- Matt Schudel