Prof. Philip N. Lockhart

Prof. Philip N. Lockhart, 82, died Sunday, February 20, 2011. He was retired from the Asbury J. Clarke Chair of Latin at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Prof. Lockhart was born May 3, 1928, near Smicksburg, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, to the late J. Donald and Margaret (North) Lockhart. His early years were spent on the family farm on which he was born. He attended one-room country schools and graduated from Punxsutawney (PA) High School.
In 1950 he graduated with a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. He held the M.A. from the University of North Carolina and the doctorate from Yale University. In 1959 he married Elizabeth McFarland Ayer of Westchester County, NY.
Professor Lockhart served a year as a missionary teacher in Ezel (KY) Mission School. The bulk of his career (27 years) was at Dickinson College, where he taught Latin and Ancient Greek. In addition, he taught in the Universities of Missouri, Pennsylvania, and Ohio State. At Dickinson he was a three-time winner of the Ganoe Award for inspirational teaching.
His academic honors included Phi Beta Kappa, a Fellowship of The American Council of Learned Societies, and listing in Who’s Who in America. He served as President of the Philadelphia Classical Society and the Pennsylvania Classical Association; in addition he was a member of the American Philological Association and a founding member of the South Central Pennsylvania Chapter of The Archaeological Institute of America.
In Carlisle Prof. Lockhart was an elder in the Second Presbyterian Church and for forty years a member of its Sanctuary Choir. He also taught in the community Sunday School teacher training programs.
He is survived, in addition to his wife, by a brother, Donald W. Lockhart, and his wife Lois of Towanda (PA) and a sister, Jean Blair, and her husband Sidney of Indiana (PA); a son, Dr. Bruce Lockhart, resident in the Republic of Singapore and a daughter, Betsy Wood, and her husband Jeff of Gardners (PA).
A ceremony of committal will be held at the Gilgal Presbyterian Church cemetery in Indiana County (PA) Friday, February 25, 2011 at 11 a.m.
A memorial service will be held at Second Presbyterian Church, Carlisle PA, on Friday, March 4, 2011 at 11 a.m.
Hoffman-Roth Funeral Home & Crematory, Inc., 219 North Hanover Street, Carlisle is in charge of the funeral arrangements.
Memorial gifts may be made to the Music Fund of Second Presbyterian Church, 528 Garland Dr., Carlisle PA 17013 or to The Philip Lockhart Fellowship at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece (address in the USA: 6-8 Charlton Street, Princeton, NJ 08540-5232).