Joseph Wybrandt Kabat Jr. ’58

Joseph Wybrandt Kabat Jr. ’58, proud and stalwart member of the class of 1958 and a resident of Nashua, New Hampshire, died on October 10, 2010, at Speare Memorial Hospital in Plymouth, New Hampshire. His wife, Sheila, said his “to do” list for the coming week “was packed with living”—including teaching a digital photo class for a senior education program, attending a regional Boy Scouts event, witnessing U.S. citizenship proceedings of a Colombian friend he had tutored last summer and planting tulips in honor of his Dutch heritage and his mother, Hazel (Dyksterhouse), at his Little Squam Lake camp in Ashland, New Hampshire. Born and raised in Peoria, Illinois, and Toledo, Ohio, Joe was a psychology-English major and member of Zeta Psi at Dartmouth. He was employed many years in the packaging industry in Michigan and Massachusetts. On retirement he was heavily involved in teaching programs of the River Institute for Senior Education. He was an avid outdoorsman, serving the Daniel Webster Council of the Boy Scouts of America, Squam Lakes Association, Loon Preservation Society and Land Conservation Trust. Just before he died he drove to Hanover to snap the first photos of the newly installed Class of 1958 Clock on Main Street. Joe and Sheila were perennial class reunion registrars. “Joe and I were married on Mother’s Day, May 11, 1991, and we celebrated on the 11th of each of our 233 months as husband and wife,” she said. He is survived by children Charles and Anastasia (by his first wife) and five grandchildren.