Chesley A. Moroz
In Memoriam 1959 - 2008

Chesley,
You have done so much for the parks here in the US, ensuring that visitors really understand the MEANING of what it is they are experiencing in these amazing places. You have touched so many lives through your work.
Thank you for everything!
Stay tuned for some pictures from our trip to Bella Italia. I'll post them this evening.
With much love from Laura and the Cane River Crew.

Chesley,
(I'll see if I can get this one off to you correctly!) What we're trying to say here at Signal Tree is that we have always appreciated the way you at Eastern National have treated us. It has been a pleaasure to work with you, and we wish you the very best.

Gulf Islands has a place waiting for you!

Hi Chesley,
Willart Publishing has had a happy relationship with Eastern National since 1991 and, although we have never met, I'm sure you've been a major factor in the professionalism and courtesy that was extended to us through the Park Service. We here wish you all the best.
Keep the faith.

Hi Chesley,
I'm not sure if you remember me, but I worked for Ed Elvidge, the photographer back in the mid 1980s. Ed printed all (or most) the postcards and calendars Eastern National at that time. We were located in Southwest Harbor ME near Acadia National Park. I really admired your organizational abilities and professionalism. You were a pleasure to work with. A good lesson for all to take with them, if you are good at your job and maintain professionalism you will always be remembered!! It was 25 years ago and I still think of you when I see the calendars and postcards from other national parks that I've visited.

I certainly hope this e-mail finds you better, or at least comfortable. All the best to you. Thanks for setting the bar high!
Diana

Hi Chesley,
   I am Karen's husband, Buddy.
   Karen and I just celebrated our tenth wedding anniversary last week.
I remember when I was courting Karen, she would talk about you and her job at Eastern National. It was awhile before I got a chance to meet you and folks including Dan Brown and his wife Linda at dinner at the Bistro on the Biltmore Estate. I was honored to be invited to the dinner and to finally meet the lady I had heard so much about. I was not disappointed and I had a GREAT time.
 
Over the years you helped Karen become the manager she is today, which I am so proud of.

Remember? At the dinner, I wrote everyone's names on the back of my business card so I would have a cheat sheet if I needed one. After repeating your name "Chesley" all day I pulled it off. Then after the dinner you and I talked about Karen before you left.

When you retired from Eastern National you left someone a hard job in filling your shoes and walking in the footsteps you walked for so many years. Being a former Marine I appreciate and admire a leader like you have been, that can walk the walk and talk the talk and make hard decisions that I know you have had to make over the years. Sometime I know you would have been misunderstood by many but in the long run everyone knows you made the right decisions that have made Eastern National a company everyone can be proud of. Every time I drive or hike on the Parkway I will always think of you. "THANKS!"
 
I hope this finds you doing as well as possible and I wish you the best and you are in my prayers.
Semper Fi Buddy

Dear Chesley. You and I met in 1985 not long after I became ENP&MA (the old full name) coordinator at Sandy Hook. You are one of those friends who I felt as if I had known for years after only a few months. Thanks so much for your support at Gateway-Sandy Hook and the many parks after. You dedication to Eastern National and to our National Park units was solid and sincere. Your personal support for me is greatly appreciated. Thanks so much and best wishes. Randy Turner, Morristown, New Jersey

Dear Chesley,
Thank you so much for everything you have done for Eastern National, national parks and the mission we hold so dear, and thank you for everything you've done to help me grow from a seasonal associate at Craggy Gardens (where we turned a hand crank to ring sales on a mechanical cash register) through a career filled with wonderful experiences and opportunities.

Your ability to connect genuinely with everyone from a front-line ranger or associate to an NPS director is special. You have invested and invited countless exchanges of trust and collaboration to open better doors to the future.

Chesley- Thanks for all of the truly outstanding work you have done for Eastern National Park and Monument Association and of course for the National Park Service. Your hard work, dedication, commitment and, equally important, your creativity, have made great contributions to the mission of the NPS. It has been my pleasure to have worked with you over the years and I have marvelled at how strong Eastern National has become under your leadership. I believe that it is important for you to know that your hard work is appreciated by many, many employees and former employees. Thank you again.

Chesley: Your 'hand on the helm' will surely be missed as you depart EN.
During my tenure at Pictured Rocks NL, we greatly appreciated the assistance provided us by EN under your leadership. My thoughts and prayers are that adversities will be met and overcome and that your retirement years will be enjoyable not only for you but for your family as well.

Grant Petersen

Dear Chesley,

From all of us at the George Wright Society, thank you so much for all that you've accomplished during your tenure at the helm of Eastern. All of us who work in or on behalf of parks are part of a community, and it is an honor for me, personally, to be able to say that I share that community with a person of high integrity and accomplishment such as yourself.

I know that Eastern remains in good hands now that the baton has been handed back to George for awhile. Please know that you have the very best wishes, and the deepest appreciation, from all of us at the GWS.

Thanks, Chesley -- for your personal support of our mission, and for your friendship.

Dave Harmon
The George Wright Society

Hello Chelsey
I hope all is well and will keep you in my prayers. you are a beautiful and wonderful person inside and out.

Keep the faith and stay strong.


Best Regards
Liz

Edited by author 02-13-2008 02:43 PM
Hi, Chesley-
How does one say 'goodbye' to you? Well, I don't WANNA, I don't HAFTA, and I'm just not GONNA ...

You have been a source of inspiration for Assn associates far and wide, providing thoughtful guidance, behavior by example, leadership with dignity, and RESULTS from a potful of dedicated HARD WORK. I appreciated your warmth, sincerity and SENSE OF HUMOR...and the fact that you weren't just your 'job'. A multi-faceted GEM of a person, you have many other skills, interests and joys: being a mother, being a wife, enjoying adventures all over the globe.

You are respected by all, but duplicated by no one. When you came in a room, people noticed. You were expert in what you did, honest and straighforward in your information, there was a presence about you. (I might add as an aside that you were also a very snappy dresser!) The things I liked best about you were your optimism and how fun it was to be around you...You have one of the BEST LAUGHS on the planet. Learning from you was always a treat!

Use that energy, optimism, grace and that marvelous spirit as weapons against this health challenge. I'm confident that you will 'see to it' that this challenge is met and vanquished quickly.

I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers. I look forward to hearing that great laugh again soon, my friend.

SEE YOU LATER-
Dusty Dunbar

Dear Chesley

We are all family within the embrace of Eastern National, all for one and one for all.
Our thoughts and prayers are with you as we think of all your kindnesses over the years.
Like all of your friends and colleagues, we are rooting for you.
Be assured that all of us are straining with all our will power to bring healing.
With the warmest of best wishes in this coldest of seasons,

Anthony S. Pitch
MINO Publications
Potomac, MD

Dear Chesley:

Enormous gratitude is expressed from the staff at Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site for your service to this park and others in supporting an organization that allows parks to share their mission and promote stewardship in a lasting way. Your time at Eastern National saw the park make great strides towards keeping Carl Sandburg’s written words in print, and being able to offer quality theme-related merchandise. Through Eastern National percent donations the park has been able to sustain a 40-year old partnership with the Flat Rock Playhouse, support teacher workshops to create curriculum-based education programs, provided poets to enhance interpretive programs, and kept park-produced brochures in print. Your dedication to creating an environment of park support has enabled more visitors to appreciate the legacy and significance of the Sandburg story. Please accept a hearty “thank you” and “goodbye” to a true “Sandburger family member” whom we will miss.

Every man spins a web of light circles
And hangs his web in the sky
Or finds it hanging, already hung for him,
Written as a path for him to travel.

-Carl Sandburg, Webs
Good Morning America, 1928

Thank you for spinning your web of light circles for us. We understand there are other paths for you to travel. May luck stars watch over you.


Sincerely,


Connie Hudson Backlund
Superintendent