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- Title: Mcdermott Offered Superintendent's Job
- Author : Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
- Release Date : January 13, 2008
- Genre: Reference,Books,
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WORCESTER Harriet Miller Hight, born Harriet Prescott Wright in Worcester on February 20, 1913, passed away on March 12, 2008. During her youth, she lived on Oberlin Street in Worcester and Oak Street in Shrewsbury. She attended Worcester Public Schools, Shrewsbury High School, Abbott Academy, graduated from Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio in 1936, and also earned a Master's Degree at Columbia University Teachers College in New York City. She is survived by her brother, Herbert F. Wright of Worcester; her son, Erwin H. Miller, and his wife Margery of Worcester; and a daughter, Edith M. Heier, of Minden, Germany. She is also survived by five grandchildren: Emilie Fruit and her husband Andrew of Machias, Maine, Elizabeth H. Miller of Tualatin, Oregon, Sarah F. Miller of Gardiner, Maine, Harriet (Mrs. Bodo) Heier, and Paul Heier, also of Minden, Germany. She also leaves five great-grandchildren and Scott Vickers of Chicopee, father of two of her great-grandchildren. Harriet was a lifelong resident of Worcester and much involved in the community. Her particular interests were in service to youth, civil and political rights, and cultural affairs, especially music. One of her early volunteer activities was at Friendly House, where she served on the Board and was President in the mid-1940's. She also served on the Boards of the Children's Friend Society and The Worcester Youth Guidance Center. During World War II, she and her first husband, Dr. Erwin C. Miller, participated in the sheltering of children from Welwyn Garden City, England, who had been sent, with the help of the Norton Company, to Worcester for the duration of the War. Thus, Juliet Masters (now Juliet Sanger) came to live with the family for five years. In connection with her interest in younger children's education and reading, Mrs. Hight served on the Council of Children's Reading, a service of the Worcester Free Public Library. With other members of the Council, she reviewed children's books for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette and wrote for a booklet put out by the Library - "Too Good To Miss" - highlighting the best in children's literature at the time. As her own children grew up, she became first a den mother of a Cub Scout troop and then a leader of a Girl Scout troop at First Baptist Church. After joining that church in the early 1950's, she became very active and served as President of the Women's Association, on the Benevolence Committee, and the Social Action Committee; she was also a Deaconess. She organized and led an adult bible study group known as The Christian Forum. She represented the First Baptist Church at the Worcester Council of Churches and was Chair of the Spiritual Life Committee, working with women of different denominations and races to put out booklets for Lenten reading, based on thoughts and convictions and written by the women themselves. In the 1960's, Harriet became President of the Church Women United, an organization connected with the National Council of Churches. She attended the National Assembly of the United Church Women in Kansas City in 1964.