Donald Moses was a native of Reno, NV, and attended Bishop Manogue High School. He continued his Jesuit education and graduated from University of San Francisco in 1959. He played basketball for the Dons for one season. He taught at Santa Clara University, Loyola and Emory Universities. Later, he taught at New College of California in San Francisco, worked in Human Resources' management at IBM-Siemens, and taught Latin at Santa Catalina Middle School in Monterey after his retirement.Â