<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/_dev-testing/2026-08-21/westmont-news/college-mourns-death-professor.html" dsn="news"><pubDate>05/10/2012</pubDate><title>College Mourns the Death of Professor</title><excerpt>Alex Moore, who joined the Westmont faculty in 2011 as assistant professor of kinesiology, died May 9 from complications following surgery. Moore was 31. His wife, Kirsten, survives him; the couple met at Westmont in 2005 when she became the college’s head women’s basketball coach. They got married in 2008, and their first child is due in July.</excerpt><author>Westmont</author><image>
            
            <img src="/_migrated-binaries/sites/default/files/blogs-legacy/2012/05/Moorealex-505x757.jpg" alt="Dr. Alex Moore (1980-2012)"/>
        </image><caption>Dr. Alex Moore (1980-2012)</caption><description>1 Column Content Background Color White Ali...</description></item>