McCauley is PASR volunteer of year

Judith Gatto McCauley was honored by the Pennsylvania Association of School Retirees as Volunteer of the Year during a luncheon program led by association president Nancy McDonald, and attended by family and friends.

A retired elementary teacher, Judith spent 44 years teaching third and fourth grade students in Dunmore, retiring as head teacher in charge of 120 third grade students and six faculty members at the Elementary Center.

Judith is a 16-year Retired Senior Volunteer Program pen pal who corresponds with a Scranton School District student. A Life Member of St. Josephs Auxiliary, she has volunteered at Community Medical Center Mercy Hospital Gift Shops.

She assists on Bereavement Luncheons and at Divine Mercy Churchs fair bake sale booth and is a member of the Century Club.

Active in the Marywood Alumni Association, she served as president of the Marywood Northeast Alumni Club. She is a member of the Marywood Alumni Planning Board which is preparing the 2015 celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of Marywood University.

Marywood alumni, including Dolly Reilly Densevich, Eleanor Deviney, JoAnn Magnotta Ligorio, Joan Ratchford Lloyd, Marlene Parks, Annette Maldonato Profera and Betty Lou Luvender Zapp, were among those honoring her at the luncheon.

Also on hand was Kim Grochowski Marchese who Judith has been assisting as she prepared for the opening of Building the Kingdom of God, a religious gift store at Dunmore Corners.

Dunmore educators joining in included Peg Hart and Judith Spinelli, and Alice ODonnell Foley , a retired Dunmore Elementary teacher who was last years PASR Volunteer of the Year.

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Namedropper, Jan. 8, 2014