Catherine Schatz Brant ’40

Catherine Schatz Brant ’40, of Washington, D.C.; Jan. 7, 104 years of age. While attending Brown, she met her lab partner, Earl Brant ’42, who would eventually become her husband of 60 years. After graduating, she worked as an order clerk at a machinery company in Boston supplying pumps and motors to Oak Ridge, Tenn., for the Manhattan Project. She married Earl in 1943 and they moved to Philadelphia for him to attend medical school. While he was serving in Korea, she returned to Boston and resumed her previous job. After his military service, they moved to Ohio and then New York. She worked at Mamaroneck High School as a reading specialist and enjoyed helping teenagers read. In 1992, they moved to Washington, D.C., to be closer to their daughter. She became a volunteer at Heurich House Library and with the library committee of the National Presbyterian Church, where she was a member. She was honored four times by Mayor Muriel Bowser and the D.C. Department of Aging and Community Living. Her daughter, who survives her, says, “She was sharp even in her advanced age and still proud to be a Brown graduate.”