Obituaries
Obituaries
We created the UFT Honors site for memorials to the cherished UFT members we lost during the pandemic. We are now memorializing ALL UFT members who have died since March 2020 on the new site.
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Malcolm Sellinger
Malcolm Sellinger was a UFT member for 61 years.
Phyllis Frishberg
Phyllis Frishberg was a UFT member for 20 years, most recently as a school secretary in Brooklyn.
Rosemary Tunney
Rosemary Tunney was an educator and social worker at District 11 in the Bronx and supervised and mentored many of her colleagues over the span of her career from the 1980s to the 2000s.
Mary Lopez
Mary Lopez was a UFT member for 30 years, teaching English language learners in the Bronx.
Gina Silverstein
Gina Silverstein began her teaching career at PS 153 in Maspeth, Queens, at the age of 19. She taught there for over 40 years before retiring.
Olive Archer
Olive Archer came to teaching as a second career and became an early childhood literacy expert in the Bronx.
Bernice Tompkins
Bernice Tompkins began teaching in New York City in 1947 and taught for over 20 years in public schools.
Doris Iskaros
Doris Iskaros began her teaching career over 30 years ago at a school in East New York, Brooklyn.
Tore Haugeto
Tore Haugeto was a teacher of social studies at New Dorp HS on Staten Island all his life.
Josephine Mifsud
Josephine Mifsud was a dedicated teacher who spoke of her teaching years and her former students long after retirement.