Schaum was a 1st grade teacher in District 12 in the Bronx for 26 years before retiring in 1991.

She was a counselor and teacher for more than 40 years at PS 61 in the Bronx before her retirement in 1982.

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

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.

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

Alice Lombardi was a mathematics coordinator for the Department of Education.

Irene Ruth Hammer Goldstein taught at PS 115 in Queens and was a UFT chapter leader.

Barbara Kubota was an ESL teacher at PS 90 and Queens Vocational HS in Queens.