Don Moon

Don P. Moon Jr. (February 8, 1936 – April 2, 2025) was an American academic administrator, minister, and nuclear reactor physicist. He was the president of Shimer College from 1978 to 2004, and began serving on the faculty of Shimer College in 1967.

Early life and education Moon was born in 1936 in Manila. He was the son of Don P. Moon, an admiral in the United States Navy. Moon worked as a nuclear reactor physicist at Argonne National Laboratory from 1959 to 1964. He subsequently completed a Master of Divinity at Nashotah House, an Episcopalian seminary, in 1965. During Moon's subsequent tenure, enrollment more than tripled, from 40 students to 130, and the new Waukegan campus was expanded from two buildings to 12. In 2004, Moon stepped down from the presidency but continued to teach; he was succeeded as president by William Craig Rice.