Rev. William F. Fore Ph.D.

I was a colleague and co-worker with Bill at the BFC (later Communication Commission) of the National Council of Churches from 1972 until he left in 1984. One thing I have often told people is that he was the most collegial and supportive boss I have even known. He knew how to boost you and get the best out of you. One thing not noted in the obituary is that Bill received the Pioneer Award in Religious Communication from the North American Broadcast Section of the World Association for...

It was my privilege to follow in Bill's gigantic footsteps at the National Council of Churches Communication Commission and as President, of the World Association for Christian Communication. In my later role as General Secretary of WACC it was my privilege to install Bill as an Honorary Life Member of WACC. It was under Bill's leadership that I served as a committee member on the Motion Picture Rating System, a task force to study the psychological impact of media, particularly violence...

Betty, Peter, and the Fore family. I'm deeply sorry for your loss. My life is richer for having spent time interviewing and interacting with Bill and reading his correspondence while he was with the NCC. He was authentic; a man of integrity.

Bill was one of the most authentic human beings I have ever met. He worked tirelessly to understand what it is “to be human”, questioning his own biases and our collective ones with humility and courage . He desired to treat every human being he encountered with integrity and the gift of a listening ear. The world is a better place because of him and his legacy indeed lives on in his work, and, even more importantly, in the family and friend relationships he imbued with the gift of life. May...

Dad, you were many things, not least among them, my father and in that role, how I have loved you.

You taught me to recognize and love nature and marvel and comprehend the curiosities and wonders of science. You shared your celebration and joy of music and introduced me to the world of books and all medium sources of mankind’s cultural and historical expression of art and communication. You and Mom provided a family for me to love and experiences to remember. You...

Motion Picture Rating System

Dad was proud of his work with the motion picture rating system. The following paragraph is his summary of this effort.

Facing the threat of a national film censorship board in 1968, the Broadcasting and Film Commission joined forces with the National Catholic Office of Motion Pictures to publicly support the Motion Picture Association’s new Code and Rating Program saying, “it is better to support self-regulation than risk the emergence of...

As a German broadcaster I remember Bill with great gratitude as a geographically distant but intensely close friend. We met when we both became members of the Communications Committee of the World Council of Churches. He impressed me soon by the wide perspectives of his thinking und his practical abilities to relate them to real politics. Since that time we had some intense occasions to celebrate and work together, and in between we kept contact by almost regular extensive phonecalls to...

I was mostly impressed by his easy going attitude, his unending smiles and the youthfulness which emanated every time he and Allen Austill were together. Their CB exchanges will ring in my ears as long as I live. Dr. W. Fore will be missed by many, especially his loving family whom I had the fortune to meet some 50 plus years ago.
My sincerest sympathies to the whole family. May "Bill" rest in eternal peace as he has done in his real life.

I will miss you tremendously.