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In Memoriam: Dr. Earl Hart '39
1922 - 2008
We are sad to report the passing of legendary Prep teacher Dr. Earl J. Hart ’39, who passed away having been in failing health for the last year. He is survived by his daughter Joanne Boylan, his granddaughter Heather (Boylan) Ruggiero, grandsons Brendan Boylan ’94 and Kevin Boylan ’98 and great-granddaughter Avery Ruggiero.
According to an article written by the late Jerome Bennett, Jr. ’48 in the winter 1993 edition of Something’s Happening At The Prep , for more than 50 years Dr. Hart was a mainstay on the Prep faculty, who “served under 10 Prep presidents and 11 principals, taught with hundreds of colleagues and instructed approximately 7,000 students…Dr. Hart taught every mathematics course that the school offered at all four grade levels, from a chalk and blackboard freshman algebra program to a sophisticated computer course.”
It is a tribute to his constant desire to learn that the Prep computer center was named in his honor in 1986. Dr. Hart single handedly kept the school’s classroom technology current for many years and was regarded as one of its best teachers. According to the article by Bennett, “in the classroom, Earl expects the best that each student is capable of. He is eminently lucid and totally fair.”
Viewings for Dr. Hart are set for the St. Joseph's Prep foyer on Monday, July 21 from 6:00-8:00pm and the Church of the Gesu on Tuesday, July 22 from 9:00-11:00am. A Mass of Christian Burial will follow at 11:00am, with interment at Calvary Cemetery.
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