It’s been a long, long time since I first went to Staten Island for one of the riotous parties she threw in her parents’ historic old home.
It’s even been a long time since I last saw her, at a memorial tribute to Fred Koury, past principal of City-as-School when we were both there in the 1970s.
But last month we had a great catch-up conversation.
Now she works at the NYC Department for the Homeless, and she’s restoring the family home. Her parents are gone, but she’s established in her mother’s honor the Lathrope Voorspuy Memorial Scholarship Fund. Its mission is “to encourage grass-roots activism by underwriting the cost for students in programs which train for community organizing, or political candidacies.”