Hoyt, Mabel F. 1902-1987

HOYT

Posted By: Doris Hoffman, volunteer (email)
Date: 7/15/2010 at 15:31:49

Mabel F. Hoyt. 85. retired Sioux City
educator and longtime community and
civil rights leader, died Wednesday
(Nov. 4.1987) at Holy Spirit Retirement
Home after a long illness.

Miss Hoyt was principal of Irving
School from 1952 until 1967 when she retired.
She began her career with the
Sioux City School system in 1929. serving
first as dean at West Junior High School.
She taught at Central High School from
1939 until 1942 and then served as dean at
East High School until 1951.

She taught at Kingsley from 1922 to
1924.

Miss Hoyt was awarded many honors
for her education and community activities.
While serving as dean at East High
from 1942 until 1951. She was presented
the Freedoms Foundation Award for
her encouragement of East's student created
commencement program.

She was accorded Woman of the Year
honors by Morningside College's Agora
Club and the Sioux City Business and
Professional Women's Club.

As a volunteer, Miss Hoyt taught
reading, writing and citizenship for 36
years to hundreds of foreign-born Sioux
Cityans at the Mary J. Treglia Community
House.

She was an advocate of the Floyd River
control project to benefit the neighborhood
served by the Mary Treglia
Community House and served as a
member of the Mayor's Urban Renewal
Commitee which was charged with finding
housing for people dispossessed by
the flood control project.

Miss Hoyt was born July 9. 1902. in
Sioux City. She was a graduate of Central
High School, attended Morningside
College and was graduated from the
University of Chicago. She received a
master's degree from the University of
Wisconsin and completed graduate
work at the Universities of New York,
California, Colorado, and Boston.

Miss Hoyt was a member of the First
Presbyterian Church and a former
chairman of the church's deaconess
board. She was a former president of the
Sanford Center Board, treasurer and
board member of the Mary J. Treglia
Community House for 30 years, past
president of Quota Club and the Northwest
Iowa Education Association and
chairman of the Council of Community
Services.

Le Mars Daily Sentinel
Thursday, November 5, 1987
Le Mars, Iowa