A brother dead

and brothers mourning

Fill the heart

with grief today,

And the earnest

grasp fraternal;

Speaks, “a dear one

passed away.”

Yes, no longer

we shall greet thee

In the halls of DKE,

Yet thy name

in sweet remembrance

Graven on

our hearts will be.

We have parted,

Brother, parted,

As we trust, to meet again,

In a full unbroken circle,

Free from sorrow,

grief and pain.

James D. Prescott Sr., Zeta Zeta '48

James Dejean Prescott a well known educator and longtime Baton Rouge
resident died Saturday, May 7, 2005, at Ollie Steele Burden Manor.
Visitation will be Wednesday, May 11, at St. Aloysius Catholic Church, 2021
Stuart Ave., Baton Rouge from 9 am until religious services at 11 am.
Interment in Greenoaks Memorial Park.  Brother Prescott was born September
28, 1926, in Opelousas, LA, the son of Lucille and Willis B. Prescott.  He
was a graduate of Opelousas High School in 1943.  Prescott earned his BS in
1943, and MA in 1949, from LSU, both in education.  He completed all of his
doctoral requirements in education except for completion of his dissertation

He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and served in the U.S.
Navy in the Pacific theatre during WW II.  He taught at Baton Rouge junior
and senior high schools and served as an instructor at LSU.  He was then a
teacher and assistant principal at University Lab School.  While at LSU he
served as assistant to the director of educational studies for the La.
Commission on Higher Education.  Later he became assistant high school
supervisor and supervisor for research for East Baton Rouge Parish schools.
In 1961, he was appointed executive director of the La. School Boards Assoc
which he served for 25 years.  He was a well respected advocate of public
education and served as a member of the Education Commission of the States
for 12 years.  Prescott received numerous awards for his service to
education. 

Brother Prescott is the uncle of James Michael Roy, ZZ '73.
Donations may be made in his memory to the Sarah Edwina Prescott Scholarship
Fund, 1617 Stoneleigh Dr., Baton Rouge, LA 70808.