Harriet Morgan Tyng
Harriet Morgan Tyng was an American poet and educator. She was the first director of the Willard Day School in Troy, New York, from 1946 to 1952.
Early life and education
Tyng was born in Cranford, New Jersey, the daughter of Francis William Edmonds Tyng Sr. and Margreta Hyde Tyng. Her great-grandfather was Stephen H. Tyng, a noted Episcopal clergyman in New York City. Her older brother Francis Edmonds Tyng Jr. was also a writer and editor. She graduated from Barnard College in 1928, with further studies at Columbia University and Bryn Mawr College.Career
Tyng was a teacher at private schools in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts. From 1946 to her death in 1952, she was the first director of the Willard Day School in Troy, New York, where she also taught music and French. During her tenure, Willard Day School became co-educational, and added a pre-kindergarten class. "She was an imaginative and sensitive teacher, sympathetically interested in all her students, both boys and girls," according to a 1953 obituary. She established a practice of "new faculty seminars", where Willard teachers gave talks about their area of expertise for a gathering of their colleagues.Publications
In addition to her school work, Tyng published two volumes of poetry. "If Miss Tyng seems most frequently to ride her muse on inconsequential journeying," commented a reviewer in 1947, "what she has to say is consistently pleasant and occasionally wisely observant."Open Letter and Other Poems Vermont Village- "The Whole of Vermont"
- "Childhood"
- "Not Here"
- "The Chapel"
- "Ice Storm"
- ''Later Poems''