Posted on 05/23/2012 7:25:27 AM PDT by marshmallow
Geraldine Ferraro, the 1984 candidate for the vice presidency whose position on abortion repeatedly put her at odds with New Yorks late John Cardinal OConnor, will soon be memorialized at Fordham Law School, according to a report in Fordham magazine.
Ferraros husband, John Zaccaro Sr., and their son, John Zaccaro Jr., who are pictured in the magazine, recently made a leadership gift to Fordham in honor the late Queens congresswoman who rose to national prominence. Ferraro died of multiple myeloma in 2011.
The gift, whose amount is not disclosed in the article, reportedly will go to support a new Law School building and undergraduate residence hall, now under construction and scheduled to open in 2014.
A floor in the building will be named for Ferraro, a memorial Fordham magazine describes as a fitting tribute to a woman who spent her career fighting for victims of inequality and abuse.
Ferraro also spent some of that career in highly public conflict with Cardinal OConnor.
The New York Times even saw fit to mention Ferraro in Cardinal OConnors 2000 obituary:
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.cardinalnewmansociety.org ...
Another attempt to vainly resurrect a liberal’s legacy ala the Kennedys’ Camelot dream created by a fawning media. This deserves a big ‘yawn’ and immediate ‘well, that’s nice’ and move on to anything more important.
Ping!
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