Blanche Bockstoce

1920 - 2003  (82 years)

• Name	Blanche Bockstoce
  Born	26 Oct 1920	Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, Pennsylvania, USA
  Gender	Female
  Died	21 Sep 2003
  Buried	Mount Desert, Hancock Co, Maine, USA (Seal Harbor Cemetery)
  Person ID	I26841	A00 Hoar and Horr Families North America
  Last Modified	13 Dec 2015

  
  

  Father	Harry Forrest Bockstoce
  Mother	Blanche Hutton
  Family ID	F12153	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Major John Hoar, Jr.,   b. 23 Oct 1917, Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA ,   d. 16 Nov 1995,  (Age 78 years)
  Married	23 Jun 1948	West Hartford, , Massachusetts, USA
  Children	1. Living
  Last Modified	13 Dec 2015
  Family ID	F10796	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Engagement Announcement: Date: 1948-02-01 Paper: Springfield Union Marriage Announcement with photo of the bride: Date: 1948-06-24 Paper: Springfield Union Cemetery: http://research.mdihistory.org/MountDesertcemeteries/SealHarborCemetery.htm [[New York Times Obituary: Published: September 28, 2003 HOAR--Blanche Bockstoce, 82, on September 21, 2003. Was Art Department head at Ethel Walker School and then Hotchkiss. Beloved mother of William; grandmother of William and Eliza. Memorial service, November 8th, 3PM, Ethel Walker's Chapel. Contributions in her memory to The Hartford Art School. The Hartford Courant 2003 HOAR, Blanche Bockstoce Blanche Bockstoce Hoar, 82, of Simsbury, died on Sunday, (September 21, 2003) of congestive heart failure. She was the daughter of the late Blanche Hutton and Harry F. Bockstoce of Pittsburgh, PA and the sister of the late Clifton M. Bockstoce of West Hartford. She attended Smith College and The Hartford Art School, where she was the third student to be awarded a full three- year scholarship in the school's history. A teacher of both Studio Art and History of Art for over 40 years, she began her career as an instructor at Smith College. She became Head of the Art Department at The Ethel Walker School, where she taught for 27 years and was known to all of her students as "Miss B." In 1974, she moved to the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, as Chairman of the Art Department when the school became co-educational. At Hotchkiss, she was awarded the Marie S. Tinker Chair becoming the first woman to occupy an endowed teaching position there. She was also appointed to the first six-member Advanced Placement Examining Committee in History of Art, which was chaired by Dr. H.W. Janson. Following her retirement, she became a licensed Episcopal Eucharistic lay minister and was a volunteer lay chaplain in the newly formed hospice program at the McLean Home in Simsbury. Her marriage to John Hoar, Jr. ended in divorce. She is survived by her son, William P.H. Hoar; and grandchildren, William and Eliza Hoar, all of New York City, NY. A memorial service will be held on November 8, at 3 p.m. in the Ethel Walker School Chapel. In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory should be sent to either The Hartford Art School in West Hartford or the Simsbury Volunteer Ambulance Association.