A resident of Dallas for 47 years, Herb Shore oversaw the growth of Golden Acres from its original 49 bed facility to a complete continuum-of-care campus serving 550 people when he retired in 1990. Shore also helped to establish several state and national organizations devoted to the care and services for the elderly, including the North American Association of Jewish Homes and Housing for the Aging (now known as AJAS), which he served as first president from 1960-1962 and as executive vice president from 1962-1995; the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA), for which he served as the second president from 1962-64; and the Texas Association of Homes for the Aging (TAHSA), which he also served as president.

In recent years Shore managed an active consulting firm - SAGES - Shore & Associates, Geriatric & Elderly Services.

Herb Shore's long career involved many forms of public service. He founded and later served as president of Senior Citizens of Greater Dallas. He was appointed by Mayor Annette Strauss to be chair of the Senior Affairs Commission, City of Dallas (1990-91) In 1982 he helped to establish Community Homes for Adults, Inc. (CHAI) and later served as president of this organization that provides group homes for adults. Shore was also appointed by Governor Ann Richards to a term on the Texas Board of Health. He served as a delegate to all four White House Conferences on Aging (1960, 1970, 1981, and 1995), and attended numerous international gerontological conferences.

For many years Herb Shore taught undergraduate sociology at the University of North Texas and then helped to establish the Center for Studies on Aging there, serving as the Director of Field Instruction. He also taught at the University of Michigan, UCLA, and the University of Texas in Austin and in Arlington.

In 1964, Herb Shore co-authored Geriatric Institutional Management, considered one of then first modern books on institutional management. Over the course of his career, he published hundreds of articles on aspects of care for the elderly and others, including a workbook called Adventures in Group Living. In recent years he achieved a certain renown for compiling and publishing an eight-volume collection of jokes by and about older people called "Abe and Becky." Herb was also an avid stamp collector. He called one of his collections -- stamps devoted to aging -- "gerontophilately."

Herb Shore was born in New York City on October 23, 1925 to parents Molly and Isadore Schilsky. He served in the US Army Air Corps from 1944-46 and earned a B.S. in Sociology in 1948 from City College of New York and a masters degree in social work from Columbia University in 1952. In 1969 he earned a doctorate of education from University of North Texas.

Herb began his career as assistant executive director of the Drexel Home in Chicago from 1950-1953. In March 1953 he moved to Dallas to become first director of the Dallas Home for Jewish Aged.

He is survived by his sister, Sadye Woghin of New York, and his three children, Debra (and her partner Kathleen Gillespie) of Skokie, IL, Wendy, of Dallas, and Andrew (and his partner Randy Clarke) of Mountain View, CA. He is also survived by three grandchildren, Evan MacAdams, Ben Smith, and Renee Rosenfeld. Herb was preceded in death by his wife of 51 years, Selma.

Funeral services will be on Friday, May 5, 1999 at 2:00 p.m. in the Temple Emanu-El Sanctuary, Rabbis David Stern and Gerald Klein officiating. Interment Temple Emanu-El Cemetery.

Family request in lieu of flowers that contributions be made to Community Homes for Adults, Inc. (CHAI), Temple Emanu-El, or Golden Acres in memory of Herbert Shore.