Walter K. Howe, Jr., May 1953
Walter K. Howe, Jr. (September 13, 1904 - September 15, 1992) was a history teacher at Hartford Public High School and the president of the Connecticut Education Association. He was also a deacon of Center Church in Hartford, Connecticut and a member of the First Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, in Camden, Maine.
Life and Death[]
He was born in 1904 in the Hartford area and grew up in the region. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Wesleyan University in the 1920's and early 1930's. He married Elsie Fahl in July 1932 and the two spent their summers in Camden and Lincolnville, Maine after 1941. He began his teaching career, however, in 1934, two years later.
The Fahl-Howe wedding party in Middletown, Connecticut, Jul. 1932
In May 1950, he was elected president of the Hartford Teachers League, which represented approximately 600 teachers in Hartford at the time. In 1953, he was elected head of the Connecticut Education Association, becoming the first Hartford teacher since 1918 to serve as president. He was a West Hartford resident during this time and started his family there. He served as a teacher for more than 30 years before retiring in the 1960's. In January 1974, he reacted to the Watergate scandal involving President Richard Nixon in a letter to the Editor of the Hartford Courant. He criticized the immediate guilt of all persons involved, arguing that Nixon "has already been indicted, tried, and conviced by a large segment of the American public, of the press, and of TV and radio? Is this the American way of life?"
On April 29, 1986, his wife, Elsie, died after a long illness at the age of 79, being survived by her husband, children, and her brother, Rudolph Fahl of Exeter, New Hampshire.
On September 15, 1992, he died in Camden, Maine at the age of 88, survived by his son, daughter, two brothers - Paul Howe of Vermont and Hale Howe of Florida - and a sister, Faith Mathey of Massachusetts.
Children []
- Walter K. Howe III - m. Kathleen Olding
- Gail Ann Howe - m. Chester Smith