Phillip (Phil) Pratt, 79, passed away peacefully at home surrounded by his family on October 22, 2026. He was born in Massachusetts in March 1947 to Augustus Kingman and Mary Louise Pratt and spent most of his youth in the outskirts of Boston and the Gulf Coast of Florida.
Here are three post-Coming Home updates:
Subject: Class of 1969 Virtual Social Hour
Dear ’69 Classmates,
On Monday, October 19 at 5 pm Eastern (U.S.) Time, Ian Miller will join us for a Casual Conversation on Zoom during which he will discuss the work of Aided, a non-profit of which he is director, whose mission is to help Ukrainians survive the invasion and end it, and whose website can be found here: https://aided.org .
From Mr. Miller: “Ian Miller earned his Master's in Chemical Engineering at MIT and co-founded the Ukraine aid providers Zero Line and Aided.”
On Monday, October 12, Professor Edith Hall will join us on Zoom at 11:30 am Eastern Time for a Casual Conversation about suicide. She is the author of “Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks,
1st Round, awarded at our 75th Birthday Party in June 2022:
As of this weekend, we are launching our Memories of Departed Classmates project.
You are all invited to participate in our next play reading on November 8 at 1:30 pm Eastern Time on Zoom. We will be reading the play that features the famous speech that begins “To be or not to be; ay, there’s the point./
Dear ’69 Classmates,
BEND, Ore. – Although Skip was born in 1947, we did not meet one another until April 1984, when a move brought him to work as a fellow neonatologist at Maine Medical Center. A genuine and unselfish guy who loved his family and excelled at his work, I hoped we would become life-long friends.
On Sunday, August 30 at 3 pm Eastern Time Dartmouth Jewish Studies Professor Susannah Heschel will be our guest for a Casual Conversation about the writings and teachings of her father, Rabbi Abraham