My Mother- 1949

My Mother

Moore College of Art

Philadelphia, PA

1949

• She was a senior at Moore College of Art. She earned a full scholarship for all four years.
• She studied Textile Design.
• She is on the far right.
• She smoked cigarettes then.  She stopped smoking some time after she finished college.
• She had been engaged to Hector DeLoenzo but that relationship broke up.
• She was dating my father at this time. He was about a year younger than her.
• She was a Methodist but some time after she started dating my dad, she converted to Catholicism. She told me she converted because "I was tired of not having  religion."
• Gloria Morrarity was her best friend.  They stayed friends for years, although after a while, they only correspondent at Christmas time.
• Her parents were living in the Azures.
• Her brother was in a military academy. He was five years younger than my mother.
• She was 22 years old.
• I never saw her wear anklets.
• In the summers, she went to Long Beach Island.
• She lived in the dorms for four years.
• After she finished college, she moved to Greenwich Village and worked for a textile company.  
• She was married in 1951. 
• She stayed connected to Moore until she died in 1998.

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