Marcia Pickering Hunt ’55

Marcia Pickering Hunt ’55, of Brant Rock, Mass., formerly of New York and Greece; Jan. 8. She met her husband, Bruce Hunt ’54, while attending Brown; they were married in 1958 and settled in New York for a short period. In the 1970s, during the family’s six years living in Greece, she worked as a librarian at the American Community Schools in Athens. In the 1980s, back in New York, she obtained a master’s in library science from the former C.W. Post, now Long Island University Post, and went on to work as a librarian at Northport Public Library and Northport High School. In 1990 Marcia and Bruce retired from Northport and took jobs at the American Embassy School in Damascus, Syria, where they continued to work as librarian and teacher, respectively, for the next five years. They retired to the Greek island of Skiathos in 1998 and lived there for the next 16 years. In 2014 they left Greece for the last time and returned to Brant Rock. She thoroughly enjoyed music and was one of the first members of the Chattertocks while at Brown. She also enjoyed playing bridge. She is survived by four children, including son Peter ’84; seven grandchildren; a great-grandchild; and a brother and sister-in-law.