Georgianna Inez Glose (December 1, 1946 – April 28, 2020) was an American activist and Dominican religious sister, based in New York City.
Georgianna Glose | |
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| Born | Georgianna Inez Glose December 1, 1946 |
| Died | April 28, 2020 (aged 73) Brooklyn, New York |
| Occupation | Social activist |
| Known for | Dominican sister; founder and director, Fort Greene Strategic Neighborhood Action Partnership |
Early life
editGlose was born in Astoria, Queens, the daughter of Rudolph Glose and Helen Bohunicky Glose.[1][2] She survived polio as a child. She attended Molloy College as a young woman.[1] She earned a master's degree at Hunter College and completed doctoral studies in social welfare at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 1996, with a dissertation titled "Take the blinders from your vision, take the padding from your ears," about "the daily incidences of institutional racism in the lives of forty African-American Roman Catholic sisters and former sisters".[3][4][5]
Career
editGlose was a teaching sister at a Roman Catholic elementary school, and was a member of the Sisters of St. Dominic religious community in Amityville, New York until 1969, when she left to join an experimental collaborative ministry with other sisters and three priests at St. Michael and St. Edward Church in Brooklyn.[1][6][7] She was founder and director of the Fort Greene Strategic Neighborhood Action Partnership (SNAP), establishing educational and support programs for the neighborhood.[8][9] She testified before a Congressional committee in 1982, on the social impact of the Reagan administration's economic recovery programs.[10] She and two other sisters reported evidence of sexual abuse by priests in her parish to the Diocese of Brooklyn in 1993, and later in a public statement.[3][6][11] She co-authored a 2011 study of infant mortality prevention in Brooklyn's Brownsville neighborhood.[12]
Glose served as chair of the human services department at New York City College of Technology,[1] head of the Mid-Atlantic Consortium for Human Services, executive director of the Brooklyn-wide Interagency Council on the Aging,[4][13] and board member of the Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project (MARP).[8]
Personal life
editGlose died on April 28, 2020, at age 73 from complications of COVID-19 in Brooklyn during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City.[1][3] She was one of the thousand names included in The New York Times front-page article U.S. Deaths Near 100,000, An Incalculable Loss[14]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e Elliott, Andrea (2020-05-12). "Georgianna Glose, a Nun and Activist for the Poor, Dies at 73". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-12-04.
- ^ "Stefan C. Bohunicky". The Morning Call. 1963-08-20. p. 8. Retrieved 2020-12-04.
- ^ a b c Simon, Scott (May 16, 2020). "Remembering Georgianna Glose, A Brooklyn Nun And Activist". NPR.org. Retrieved 2020-12-04.
- ^ a b "Remembering Alumna Georgianna Glose, Activist Nun Who Dedicated Her Life to Social Justice". Alumni News, Graduate Center, City University of New York. June 18, 2020. Archived from the original on 2021-04-23. Retrieved 2020-12-04..
- ^ Glose, Georgianna Inez. "Take the blinders from your vision, take the padding from your ears" (D. S. W. dissertation, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 1996). DAI-A 57/01, Dissertation Abstracts International, via ProQuest.
- ^ a b "Sister finds that faith sustains when institutions fail". Global Sisters Report. 2017-07-17. Retrieved 2020-12-04.
- ^ Blau, Eleanor (January 8, 1973). "New Work, New Living Setups: A New Nuns' Story: Welcomed as Equals A New Concept". The New York Times. p. 113 – via ProQuest.
- ^ a b B, B. (2020-05-05). "In Memoriam: Dr. Georgianna Glose". Fort Greene SNAP. Retrieved 2020-12-04.
- ^ Elliott, Andrea (February 28, 2014). "At Council Hearing, Calls for City to Offer Homeless Children and Families More Aid". The New York Times. p. A21 – via ProQuest.
- ^ Committee, United States Congress Joint Economic (1982). The Effect of President Reagan's Economic Recovery Program on New York City: Hearings Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session, November 9 and 13, 1981. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 413–415.
- ^ Wakin, Daniel J. (March 15, 2002). "Bitterness in Brooklyn Diocese Over Abuse Case". The New York Times. p. A1 – via ProQuest.
- ^ Holden, Craig; Moses, Ngozi; Fox, Margaretta; Glose, Georgianna; Vaughn, Brian C.; Marshall-Taylor, Sharon (2011). "Collaborating to Address Infant Mortality: Lessons Learned from the Brownsville Action Community for Health Equality". Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action. 5 (3): 281–288. doi:10.1353/cpr.2011.0028. ISSN 1557-055X. PMID 22080776. S2CID 11139953.
- ^ "Council Executive Head Joins Aging Committee". Canarsie Courier. 1983-04-28. p. 48. Retrieved 2020-12-04 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Barry, Dan; Buchanan, Larry; Cargill, Clinton; Daniel, Annie; Delaquérière, Alain; Gamio, Lazaro; Gianordoli, Gabriel; Harris, Richard; Harvey, Barbara (2020-05-27). "Remembering the 100,000 Lives Lost to Coronavirus in America". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-04-20.
External links
edit- Video from the funeral service of S. Georgianna Glose, May 13, 2020, Amityville, New York.
- One Brooklyn-- Video Tribute to Georgianna Glose, Ph.D, A Hero of Brooklyn, slideshow from her funeral, posted by the Brooklyn borough president Eric L. Adams, on YouTube.
