By the 1950s, the school had become overcrowded, but it remained in the building until construction of a new, devoted school building was completed in 1961.
In the space of barely one year, one million illiterate people were targeted by mobilising 250,000 literacy teachers and thousands of devoted school children.
Mentored in art by a neighbor — a commercial artist named Michelangelo — and by a devoted high-school teacher, she went on to study art and art history at Berkeley, and to explore the blossoming art scene in San Francisco, where Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko taught, and Richard Diebenkorn, Sam Francis, David Park, and Elmer Bischoff were rising stars.
She was a devoted New York City public school teacher who, ahead of her time, worked with special needs children in diverse educational settings and hospitals.
Principal Hochsprung, who was also earning her doctorate in educational leadership at The Sage Colleges in New York, had an excellent reputation as a devoted and creative school leader.
Marcia was a wonderful, devoted elementary school teacher for 20 years in Northport, L.I.
For decades she was an outstandingly devoted high school teacher in Nassau County.
The few witnesses to speak on his behalf recalled him as a loving son and neighbor, a devoted father, a generous high-school buddy and a brave soldier who endured explosions and bore witnesses to the bloody horrors of Iraq's insurgency.
They described him as a devoted teacher who tutored students before school, stayed with them after and, on weekends, took students from his South Los Angeles elementary school to the beach.
Casteen addressed the gap by fund-raising, tapping a devoted alumni network to expand the school's endowment almost tenfold, to $4.6 billion, during his tenure.
Noah Thaler, Mr. Koch's grandnephew, recalled a devoted uncle who had attended youngsters' school events and soccer games, family holiday dinners, a Cirque du Soleil performance (where, he said, they ran into Mr. Clinton, and his proud Uncle Eddie bragged about him), even a manicure last year with Mr. Koch's grandniece Hannah.
