CLASS OF 1899

Willard Isaac Hyatt died of pulmonary tuberculosis at St. Albans, Vt., Aug. 27. He was a son of Rev. Isaac and Hannah (Allen) Hyatt, and was born in St. Johnsbury, Vt., March 2, 1873. His boyhood days were spent in Gilford Village, N. H., and most of his college preparation was obtained at Brewster Free Academy, Wolfboro, N. H. In the fall of 1895, from considerations of health, he entered Colorado College at Colorado Springs. After two years he returned East and entered Dartmouth in the class of '99, with which his brother Edwin was already connected, becoming a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. The first year after graduation he was principal of Union Free School, Champlain, N. Y., and was then for a year a master of the Concord, N. H., High School. After a year's graduate work in history at Dartmouth, he was from 1902 to 1905 principal of the high school at Wayland, Mass. For the next four years he was at the head of the history department in the Alleghany Preparatory School, Pittsburgh, Pa., being finally acting principal. In the fall of 1909 he was taken ill, and gave up his work about Christmas. From that time, he was engaged in a struggle 'to regain hs health, being first at Rutland and Hopkinton, Mass., and then at Pembroke and Jefferson, JN: H., and Saranac Lake, N. Y. In the spring of 1913 he removed with his family to St. Albans, Vt. Dec. 27, 1904, he was married to Jessica Florence, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Crowell, of Vineyard Haven, Mass. They had three children, Arnold Stickney, Ruth, and Hannah.

He was well equipped and well adapted for his life work as teacher. He had the quiet steady enthusiasm of the scholar and with it the character to give his efforts force and proportion. He could be in his profession nothing but what he was, an unqualified success, and his further advancement would likewise have been inevitable. He was an active and sincere church member, an elder in the Presbyterian church, and president of the Brotherhood-in one of Pittsburgh's largest churches.

In the prime of life, in a calling that he loved, exerting a tangible and appreciated influence on those with whom he worked, with his future secure, the head of a happy family, the grip of a fatal disease fastened upon him four years ago. And Will Hyatt, who had worked his way from boyhood against the difficulties that beset a man who builds his own career, who had advanced in his profession not by favor, but by merit; who had ever found within himself the weapons to face adversity, met the dread summons, calmly, serenely, courageously, like the man he was. Exerting all the strength of his weakening frame to resistance, trying every means presenting itself to stay the steady progress of his malady, through four long years yielding gradually, though stubbornly, to its insidous effects, the spirit of the man never weakened, and his great heart never faltered until it was stilled for all time in death. The keen sorrow of the class bears with it a feeling of pride in what he was and what he did; he was a good man, and he fought a good fight.

Secretary, Charles H. Donahue, 18 Tremont St., Boston