Dear Keely Lake graduated from the University of South Dakota in 1994 and received her PhD in Classics from the University of Iowa in 2001. In the next year she was a guest professor at Gettysburg College and then taught Greek and Latin at the Wayland Academy in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, from 2002 to 2018, when she moved back home to Hot Springs, SD, to care for her ailing father. She taught online courses, was a table reader for AP Latin exams, and performed heroic work for the Vergilian Society and CAMWS. She died far too young suddenly on January 15, 2020 at the age of 48.
