By NYC Gazette |
Jun 12, 2024
Retired educator Mary Carole Schafenberg ’70Ed, ’80PD has a long history with St. John’s University. Her mother, Edna Ordway Schafenberg ’45NEd, a graduate of the original School of Nursing, taught nursing arts and pharmacology at the University’s Lewis Avenue location in the 1940s. When the new Nursing Bachelor of Science degree was established at St. John’s, Ms. Schafenberg endowed a scholarship in her mother’s name. This year, she endowed the first professorship in The School of Education (SOE) for Special Education and Autism Education, a cause that is very dear to her.