Joan (Hatch) Hull ’50 P79 W50

Joan H. Hull
Joan H. Hull died peacefully on January 23, 2023 at her home in Evanston, Illinois, at the age of

94. Joan was born May 20, 1928 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the daughter of the late Samuel R.
    Hatch and Belle H. Hatch. Joan graduated from Whitefish Bay High School in Whitefish Bay,
    Wisconsin, and then from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, with a major in history and
    a minor in English in 1950. She later received a master’s degree in education.

Joan met her future husband, Ted H. Hull on the train taking them to Carleton College. They
were engaged during their senior year and married on Valentine’s Day in 1951. They raised four
children and were married for 54 years. Her family was her greatest pride and joy.

After graduating from Carleton, Joan taught high school English and physical education. She
developed an interest in working with physically disabled children early in her career, and this
remained a passion of hers throughout her life. While living in Edmonds, Washington, Joan
started an adaptive aquatics program for teaching swimming and water movement to children
with physical disabilities. After heading the program in Edmonds, Joan moved to Libertyville,
Illinois, and started a similar program in Lake County, eventually being appointed Chair of the
adaptive aquatics programs. She took great joy in seeing the remarkable physical and emotional
progress of her students.

Joan and her husband spent their retirement years at the Bristol Village retirement community
in Waverly, Ohio. Joan offered to start swimming lessons for a couple residents which soon
expanded to multiple swimming and water movement classes. She utilized her adaptive
aquatics skills to teach residents including some who had had strokes and some in their 90s.
She finally retired the Bristol Village program after 15 years. Another passion of hers was family
history and genealogy. She carefully traced the movements of our ancestors from England to
early colonial settlements on the East Coast.

Joan was preceded in death by her loving husband Ted H. Hull and is survived by her four
children, Stephen (Mages) Hull, Carolyn (Greg) Woodworth, Barbara (Dean) Riesen, and Andrew
(Beth) Hull; by her seven grandchildren, Karl, Erich, Christina, Sara, Hilary, Katherine, and Alison;
and by three great grandchildren, Nicholas, Luca, and James.

We will remember Joan for her extraordinary generosity and lifelong dedication to helping
others.