Deborah Dorfman '51
1934-2015
The HCHS Alumnae/i Association recently received a generous bequest from the estate of Deborah Dorfman, a longtime resident of Bennington, Vermont, who passed away in 2015. Representing our largest gift to date, we are grateful to Deborah for her foresight in including the HCHS Alumnae/i Association in her estate plan.
Her close friend, Paul Stitelman, told us that Deborah frequently talked with great affection about her experiences at Hunter College High School.
An only child, she was born in the Bronx to a family of very modest means. Her father was a laundryman and her mother was a homemaker who was interested in culture, and ambitious for Deborah. She pushed Deborah to take the Hunter test and, once enrolled at the school, Hunter completely changed Deborah's life. Things she never knew about or thought about were now open to her, especially in literature and the arts. Paul notes that she left us the gift in her will because she wanted to ensure that kids today would have the same access to a Hunter education that she had.
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 Deborah Dorfman as a student at Hunter. |