Bruce Samuel Davidson, a former high school teacher, passed away peacefully on April 1, 2016 in New York City.

Shirley Safran was an English teacher at Art & Design HS, where she directed school plays and coached the debate team.

Ruth Harwayne, a founding member of the UFT, was a business teacher and a SPARK coordinator at Washington Irving HS in Manhattan.

Gerald Fitzgerald was a media teacher and a dean at MS 324 in Washington Heights.