As the Year of the Book begins, I want to honor two people who set out years ago to honor the work of George R. Stewart. Vic Moitoret was a World War II Navy meteorologist who survived two carrier sinkings carrying a notebook of favorite books which included Stewart’s STORM. Near the end of the war he was sitting in the Honolulu airport when a friend introduced him to — George R. Stewart. After the war and retirement Moitoret and his wife retired to Silver City, New Mexico, set up a small fine art press, and began to write and print small belle lettres. He also established the first George R. Stewart Fan Club.
That lead Moitoret to a meeting with Humanities and English professor Bob Lyon. Lyon had founded a similar group, The Friends of George R. Stewart. His intention was to gather Stewart fans together at meetings of the Western Literature Association or similar events. Moitoret and Lyon joined with others a few times, which eventually led to a series of Stewart papers at one meeting of the WLA. They also played a key role in the visit of artist and Stewart scholar Steve Williams to Stewart Country.
the EARTH ABIDES project 
Vic Moiteret was a wonderful Science teacher to us 9th graders back in the late 70’s. He reached into his own pocket to award good grades in his class with silver dollars. He also made us kids present reports to our peers. He never once mentioned his war experiences to us youngsters. He will always be remembered as a wonderful and kind teacher and person in our hearts. The rest of us also thank him and his family for his years of military service.
Thanks, Robert. This is wonderful information – and will be added to the Donald M. Scott Papers George R. Stewart files at U Nev Reno Special Collections. Happy 2020.
Don Scott
PS. Have you seen these pages?
Click to access NA127-3b.pdf
https://thefossils.org/awards/VicMoitoret.html
I may have linked to them in the post, in case not, here they are.