Columbus Republic 16 Jan 1998
Community activist volunteer Hunt dies
Longtime community activist and volunteer
Sarah Beach Hunt, 92, of Taylor Road died at 8 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 15, 1998.
She was the recipient of The Republic’s Woman of the Year Award in 1989, the National Jefferson Award in 1982, Bartholomew County Senior Citizen of the Year Sward in 1979 and the Woman of Faith from the Presbyterian Church (USA).
She had been a member of First Presbyterian Church since 1946, Fellowship of Reconciliation since 1952 and was a member of Wider Quaker Fellowship, Friends Conference on Religion and Psychology and Columbus NAACP.
In 1967 she became a charter member of Columbus Peace Fellowship, served as consultant and a librarian from 1967 to 1984 and as coordinator from 1988 to 1989.
She was a Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude graduate of Carleton College in 1926, with a degree in sociology. She earned a Master’s degree in character education in 1936 at Iowa University, Iowa Child Welfare Research Station, and also studied at Pendle Hill Friends Graduate Center.
She had been an English teacher at Ming I Middle School in Fenchow, Shansi, China; program director for Employed Women’s Work and Teenage Clubs, YWCA in Dubuque, Iowa; executive director of the student YWCA at the University of Minnesota St. Paul campus; executive director of the student YWCA at Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls; executive director of the YWCA at Dubuque; part-time executive director of the YWCA at Iowa University and assistant to the director of religious activities at Iowa University School of Religion; and executive director of the YWCA at State College of Washington in Pullman.
She also served on the national YWCA board as staff member in charge of college and university work in 125 schools in nine midwestern states.
She was director of Christian Education at First Presbyterian Church from 1950 to 1956 and was director of Bartholomew County Retirement Study Foundation from September 1958 until January 1960.
Since coming to Columbus in the fall of 1946, she had served as co-chairman of the program of McKinley School PTO, vice chairman of the Indiana Council on Family Relations, three years as chairman of the international relations section of Columbus American Association of University Women, a member of the board of Noyes School of Rhythm Foundation, the board of Bartholomew Consolidated School Foundation, and on the board of Bartholomew County Ecumenical Assembly.
She was co-founder with Florence Hamilton of the Cambridge Square Activities Program for children and young people at Cambridge Square Apartments and also served in the Bartholomew County Juvenile Justice Task Force.
Memorial service will be conducted at 10 a.m. Monday at First Presbyterian Church, with the Rev. Janet C. Lowery officiating.
Memorials may be made to Columbus Peace Fellowship, in care of Bernice Krieg, 1534 27th Street, Columbus, In 47201; or Peacemaking Fund of First Presbyterian Church, in care of First Presbyterian Church, 512 Seventh St., Columbus, IN 47201.
Arrangements were made by Myers Funeral Service, Hathaway-Myers Chapel.
Mrs. Hunt was born June 24, 1905,in Dubuque, the daughter of Charles Burr and Elizabeth Wheldon Brain Beach. She married Theodore A. Hunt Dec. 22, 1940. He died April 29, 1995.
She is survived by daughters, Barbara Moore of Arlington, Va., and Margaret Hunt of Olympia, Wash., and McCarthy, Alaska; and sisters, Elizabeth Brown and Mary Beach, both of Rockport, Mass.
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1905 - 1998 (92 years)
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