 Hatch also served as a trustee of the Noble and Greenough School, Mount Auburn Cemetery, Boston Symphony Orchestra and the New England Conservatory of Music, member of the corporation of the Robert Breck Brigham Hospital, chairman of the Harvard Fund, president of the Harvard Alumni Association, and president-general of the Society of the Cincinnati.In 1955, Hatch was described in "The Boston Daily Globe" as a "writer of short, mostly humorous, verses and occasional prose articles".His writings appeared in "The Atlantic", "The New Yorker", "Down East", "Yankee", "American Neptune", "The Saturday Evening Post", "The Boston Globe", "The Christian Science Monitor", "The Pilot", the "Boston Herald", "The Ellsworth American", and other publications.