FEATURE
I N LOV I N G M E M O RY
Carol Galletta We celebrate the life and contributions of a very special member of the Mercy Community. The founder of the AMES program, Carol Galletta was a champion for students with learning differences and taught us that, with the right kind of instruction, care, and advocacy, students of all learning dispositions could thrive. In fact, we learned from Carol that finding the uniqueness in each you student’s ability is just plain good teaching.
“You are braver than believe, smarter than you seem, and stronger than you think.” —A.A. Milne
All of us at Mercy loved Carol’s passion for teaching, her sense of fun, and her devotion to her faith, family, friends, colleagues, and girls. For her memorial, members of the community submitted notes and remembrances. Her legacy lives on every day in the AMES program and in the success of her students as they take on college, careers, and life. While we will keep that legacy going at the school, it is Carol the person - her caring, her laughter, her fun personality - that we will miss each and every day. —Karen Hanrahan, Head of School
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THIS WOMAN’S LIFE has become a grace, a memory which lives on, a strength that motivates, a prayer of hope, a challenge to those who knew and loved her. She is a comfort to us in our grief - a vision set before us, on how the Christian life is to be lived.
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—Sandy Flaherty
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Dear Carol - WHAT A FORCE you were on this earth! Your friendship, your faith, your selflessness, your incredible legacy of education. Wow! You have burst into the universe like a thousand bright stars shining on inside so many students grown up to be teachers, nurses, scientists and every manner of confident and
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fearless adults.
—Christine Folan 6 MERCY HIGH SCHOOL BURLINGAME
