During her years at Greenwich, Ann volunteered as an English tutor at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison for women in New York State and the only one of its kind which offers the college program. While health issues gradually forced Ann to relinquish her work at Greenwich, Ann continued to volunteer at Bedford. Ann describes graduation day at Bedford Hills in 2003 for eighty-one women, saying that while she has participated in many graduation exercises at outstanding universities, colleges, schools, even kindergartens, none evoked the emotions of pride and hope for the future as this ceremony at Bedford. She goes on to say that “Education can and should be transformative. Lives can be turned around.” Ann had the true heart of an educator making a difference to women whose lives were impacted by her intelligence and love.
Date of Birth:
Thursday, July 9, 1925
Date of Death:
Friday, August 5, 2016
Relationship to the Society:
RSCJ
