Rest in Peace, Mr. Moody
Mr. Harry Moody taught math at Trinity from 1983 until 2010.
January 12, 2022
Former Trinity mathematics teacher Mr. Harry Moody recently passed away. Mr. Moody taught at Trinity from 1983 until 2010.
According to Trinity President Dr. Rob Mullen, Mr. Moody was “absolutely devoted to teaching math. While here, he got math students involved in numerous competitions. Many excelled and launched into math-related careers. Many students will have fond memories of Harry.”
May his soul, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
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Talmage Brown • Apr 11, 2022 at 5:10 pm
Only a few family members had a greater influence on my life than Mr. Moody had.
Robert Young • Jan 20, 2022 at 8:19 pm
Thank you Mr Moody. Your kindness and dedication to teaching will not go unnoticed. Thank you for believing in me and everyone you taught. You will never know the countless lives you inspired and touched. Mine was one of them. I happened to have you as my math teacher and I was not prepared for the journey I was in for. I was placed in the remedial program at Trinity and I thought that was all the further I would go with my education. There was something about you that I took an interest in and before I knew it I was hanging out in your classroom along with a lot of other students. Some bright and some average students.
You always expected the best even from the average students and expected them to succeed. Failure was not an option with you and if met with defeat you expected us to pick ourselves up by the boot straps and work harder.
You gave me the confidence to get my parents involved and push me to enroll in advanced classes at Trinity even though there were some who doubted I could succeed just because of a placement score. You stayed long hours after school tutoring me in math when needed and pushed me. I even got involved in the chess club and enjoyed it.
Thank you for leading by example and not backing down an inch. Your dedication and leadership encouraged me not to ever give up on myself and I went on to Bellarmine University where I graduated in4 4 years.
I am glad we maintained a friendship until the end. I will reflect back on the hours of great conversation and memories. Life lessons. You will truly be missed and never forgotten.
Casey Wagner • Jan 13, 2022 at 3:30 pm
I’ll share something I shared with a few of my brothers from Trinity. I have so many stories about him between the math team and the chess team and him calling me up the summer before I started at THS and asking me if I wanted to do voluntary summer math program with him. He taught me to truly love math. He gave me a book on analytical geometry “in case I was interested in teaching it to myself in my spare time.” It’s weird, but I remember specifically when he was teaching me derivatives in Calculus, and if you recall, there is a “shortcut” in derivatives called the “power rule.” This allows you to get the derivative of a function much easier than “the long way.”I remember after learning the power rule I thought that doing derivatives “the long way” was unnecessary (dy/dx equals the limit as delta x -> 0 of F(x+ delta x) – f(x) blah blah blah you all remember the formula I am sure). Anyhow, I remember sitting next to his desk, and when the lightbulb clicked on the power rule, I was like, “Mr. Moody! Derivatives are easy! Now that I know the power rule do I still have to know the limit method of calculating…” and he cut me off mid sentence and literally yelled at me, “Mr. Wagner… the only thing you *have to do* … is die.” (And the “is die” was really calm. I never forgot that moment in my life. Big time life lesson, (and calculus lesson). May he Rest In Peace, unless he would prefer to study math theory for eternity, the. May he have that instead. I truly loved Mr Moody. And he truly made me love math. Yes Mr Moody, you’ve solved the proof on the one postulate we must all face. The only thing we *have* to do, is die. But you did so much more.
Steven Jent • Jan 13, 2022 at 12:33 pm
While I never had Mr. Moody as a teacher, I spent many hours in his room after class as a member of his chess team. He was a very caring man and I think of him often and fondly when I look back on my time at Trinity.
Brian Haycraft • Jan 12, 2022 at 1:44 pm
I will never forget Mr. Moody helping me get through Geometry and being part of the Chess club in the afternoons. Rest in Peace.
John Baldwin • Jan 12, 2022 at 1:33 pm
Thank you Harry.
Those Diophantine equations……………..
Scott Holzknecht • Jan 12, 2022 at 1:05 pm
RIP Mr. Moody
Loved having you as a geometry teacher my sophomore year and chatting with you at lunch as a co-worker years later.