Dorothy Hunt records of the Mayor’s Recreation Advisory Committee (MSS-0086)

Biographical/Historical Note

Dorothy Hazard Witherby Hunt was born in Solvay, N.Y. on May 21, 1887 to Frederick R. Hazard and Dora G. (Sedgwick) Hazard. Granddaughter of Rowland Hazard II of Peace Dale, R.I. and niece of Caroline Hazard. In 1908, she attended Wellesley College where her aunt Caroline was President. After graduating, in 1912 she married Edwin C. Witherby and lived in Syracuse, N.Y. until his death in 1919. In 1923, she married S. Foster Hunt and moved to Rhode Island.

In 1939, Hunt helped organize the Urban League of Rhode Island which she later served as president of for five years. In 1947, she was appointed to the Mayor’s Recreation Advisory Committee to help create a year-round juvenile recreation program for the City of Providence. After her death in 1970, she left $50,000 to the Urban League for the development of inter-racial relationships.