Elizabeth Hunt Schumann ’40

Elizabeth Hunt Schumann ’40, of Providence; May 6, at 102 years of age. She lived for eight years in Champaign-Urbana, Ill., and five years in Swarthmore, Pa., before moving back to Providence in 1962. Upon her return, she earned a master’s in library science from URI in 1968 and worked as a reference librarian at Brown in the 1970s and 1980s. She was active in the Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity and attended the 1963 March on Washington, where Dr. Martin Luther King gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. She was also active in the League of Women Voters. While living in Laurelmead Cooperative, she helped establish and manage its library. She knit and crocheted hats and blankets for newborns in hospitals as well as for friends and family, and she loved to read, especially biographies and books about history. Phi Beta Kappa. She is survived by a daughter and son-in-law; a son and daughter-in-law; six grandchildren, including Thomas Schumann ’06; three great-grandchildren; sister Constance Hunt Del Gizzi ’51; a sister-in-law; and six nephews.