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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Lorraine C. Porter
Lorraine C. Porter was a chapter leader at PS 6 in East Flatbush, Brooklyn for the last eight years.
Carolyn Grossman
Carolyn Grossman was a kindergarten teacher at PS 200 in Bath Beach, Brooklyn.
Shirley Safran
Shirley Safran was an English teacher at Art & Design HS, where she directed school plays and coached the debate team.
Norma Joseph Hart
Norma Joseph Hart, a school psychologist for more than 20 years, was a UFT delegate and a founding member of the Hispanic Affairs and Capably Disabled committees.
Louis Tagliani
Louis Taglione was the beloved longtime teacher, assistant principal and then principal of PS 23 in Richmondtown, Staten Island from 1964 to 1996.
Bruce Davidson
Bruce Samuel Davidson, a former high school teacher, passed away peacefully on April 1, 2016 in New York City.
Dorothy Kreiselman
Dorothy Kreiselman was a teacher and chapter leader in District 20 in Brooklyn.
Paul Friedman
A former English teacher at New Utrecht HS in Brooklyn, Paul was a lover of jazz, literature and movies and believed in education through the arts.
Kinereth Louise Stubbs
Kinereth Louise Stubbs taught at PS 192 in West Harlem for 34 years. Teaching was her passion.
Dr. Felix Carlos Bonilla
Dr. Felix Carlos Bonilla was a teacher at Newtown HS in Queens for more than 30 years before his retirement in 2010.