Newsday (Long Island, NY) - September 24, 2009
Deceased Name: LONG ISLAND
Marie Costanzo , secretary at college, 76
Marie T. Costanzo, a former West Hempstead resident whose career as a Skidmore College secretary helped three of her four daughters live the dream she hadn't by graduating from college there, died at 76.
Costanzo went into cardiac arrest on her birthday, May 21, while celebrating with family over dinner and a margarita, said her eldest daughter, Paula Costanzo of Jamaica, Queens. A devout Catholic, Costanzo had attended a Mass of Ascension that night.
Her death came less than six months after her husband of 50 years, Anthony Costanzo, died.
The couple lived in West Hempstead from 1958 to 1968 and Saratoga Springs thereafter. Besides being an ace assistant who colleagues said had "near encyclopedic knowledge of faculty and curriculum," Costanzo loved classic movies, modern dance and Latin music, Paula Costanzo said.
"She didn't think she was, but she was an artist," said Costanzo, a studio supervisor at Queens College's art department.
Costanzo's creations were in her garden, abloom with peonies and sunflowers, and in the kitchen, where she made a pot roast she learned to cook from her mother. Like her own mom did when a young Marie first invited Anthony to her home, she prepared that recipe when her daughter Christina asked her future husband to dinner.
Brought up in Brooklyn, Marie Stalzer graduated St. Joseph Commercial High School in 1951 with Regents honors. But the expense and the norms of the day kept her from attending college, Paula Costanzo said. "My grandmother ... was glad she could send my mother and her sister to that high school so they wouldn't have to work in the factory," she said.
It would not be so with her girls, whom she birthed in five years after marrying Anthony in 1958. In 1971, she took a part-time job at Skidmore College and became a full-time assistant to the music department chair. The position enabled her three youngest to earn degrees there without being saddled with debt.
"It was a priceless gift," said Christina Neuner of Amityville.
Costanzo was proud of her career, including a stint as a researcher at Grant Advertising in Manhattan, where she met her husband.
She was a parishioner at St. Clement Roman Catholic Church in Saratoga Springs and a member of the Saratoga Film Forum.
Survivors include her other two daughters, Anita Costanzo of Everett, Mass., and Andrea Costanzo of Saratoga Springs, and a sister, Dorothy DeRosa of Staten Island.
Newsday (Long Island, NY)
Date: September 24, 2009
Edition: ALL EDITIONS
Page: A38
Record Number: 892436589
Copyright (c) 2009 Newsday, Inc.
Deceased Name: LONG ISLAND
Marie Costanzo , secretary at college, 76
Marie T. Costanzo, a former West Hempstead resident whose career as a Skidmore College secretary helped three of her four daughters live the dream she hadn't by graduating from college there, died at 76.
Costanzo went into cardiac arrest on her birthday, May 21, while celebrating with family over dinner and a margarita, said her eldest daughter, Paula Costanzo of Jamaica, Queens. A devout Catholic, Costanzo had attended a Mass of Ascension that night.
Her death came less than six months after her husband of 50 years, Anthony Costanzo, died.
The couple lived in West Hempstead from 1958 to 1968 and Saratoga Springs thereafter. Besides being an ace assistant who colleagues said had "near encyclopedic knowledge of faculty and curriculum," Costanzo loved classic movies, modern dance and Latin music, Paula Costanzo said.
"She didn't think she was, but she was an artist," said Costanzo, a studio supervisor at Queens College's art department.
Costanzo's creations were in her garden, abloom with peonies and sunflowers, and in the kitchen, where she made a pot roast she learned to cook from her mother. Like her own mom did when a young Marie first invited Anthony to her home, she prepared that recipe when her daughter Christina asked her future husband to dinner.
Brought up in Brooklyn, Marie Stalzer graduated St. Joseph Commercial High School in 1951 with Regents honors. But the expense and the norms of the day kept her from attending college, Paula Costanzo said. "My grandmother ... was glad she could send my mother and her sister to that high school so they wouldn't have to work in the factory," she said.
It would not be so with her girls, whom she birthed in five years after marrying Anthony in 1958. In 1971, she took a part-time job at Skidmore College and became a full-time assistant to the music department chair. The position enabled her three youngest to earn degrees there without being saddled with debt.
"It was a priceless gift," said Christina Neuner of Amityville.
Costanzo was proud of her career, including a stint as a researcher at Grant Advertising in Manhattan, where she met her husband.
She was a parishioner at St. Clement Roman Catholic Church in Saratoga Springs and a member of the Saratoga Film Forum.
Survivors include her other two daughters, Anita Costanzo of Everett, Mass., and Andrea Costanzo of Saratoga Springs, and a sister, Dorothy DeRosa of Staten Island.
Newsday (Long Island, NY)
Date: September 24, 2009
Edition: ALL EDITIONS
Page: A38
Record Number: 892436589
Copyright (c) 2009 Newsday, Inc.
Newsday (Long Island, NY) - September 24, 2009
Deceased Name: LONG ISLAND
Marie Costanzo , secretary at college, 76
Marie T. Costanzo, a former West Hempstead resident whose career as a Skidmore College secretary helped three of her four daughters live the dream she hadn't by graduating from college there, died at 76.
Costanzo went into cardiac arrest on her birthday, May 21, while celebrating with family over dinner and a margarita, said her eldest daughter, Paula Costanzo of Jamaica, Queens. A devout Catholic, Costanzo had attended a Mass of Ascension that night.
Her death came less than six months after her husband of 50 years, Anthony Costanzo, died.
The couple lived in West Hempstead from 1958 to 1968 and Saratoga Springs thereafter. Besides being an ace assistant who colleagues said had "near encyclopedic knowledge of faculty and curriculum," Costanzo loved classic movies, modern dance and Latin music, Paula Costanzo said.
"She didn't think she was, but she was an artist," said Costanzo, a studio supervisor at Queens College's art department.
Costanzo's creations were in her garden, abloom with peonies and sunflowers, and in the kitchen, where she made a pot roast she learned to cook from her mother. Like her own mom did when a young Marie first invited Anthony to her home, she prepared that recipe when her daughter Christina asked her future husband to dinner.
Brought up in Brooklyn, Marie Stalzer graduated St. Joseph Commercial High School in 1951 with Regents honors. But the expense and the norms of the day kept her from attending college, Paula Costanzo said. "My grandmother ... was glad she could send my mother and her sister to that high school so they wouldn't have to work in the factory," she said.
It would not be so with her girls, whom she birthed in five years after marrying Anthony in 1958. In 1971, she took a part-time job at Skidmore College and became a full-time assistant to the music department chair. The position enabled her three youngest to earn degrees there without being saddled with debt.
"It was a priceless gift," said Christina Neuner of Amityville.
Costanzo was proud of her career, including a stint as a researcher at Grant Advertising in Manhattan, where she met her husband.
She was a parishioner at St. Clement Roman Catholic Church in Saratoga Springs and a member of the Saratoga Film Forum.
Survivors include her other two daughters, Anita Costanzo of Everett, Mass., and Andrea Costanzo of Saratoga Springs, and a sister, Dorothy DeRosa of Staten Island.
Newsday (Long Island, NY)
Date: September 24, 2009
Edition: ALL EDITIONS
Page: A38
Record Number: 892436589
Copyright (c) 2009 Newsday, Inc.
Deceased Name: LONG ISLAND
Marie Costanzo , secretary at college, 76
Marie T. Costanzo, a former West Hempstead resident whose career as a Skidmore College secretary helped three of her four daughters live the dream she hadn't by graduating from college there, died at 76.
Costanzo went into cardiac arrest on her birthday, May 21, while celebrating with family over dinner and a margarita, said her eldest daughter, Paula Costanzo of Jamaica, Queens. A devout Catholic, Costanzo had attended a Mass of Ascension that night.
Her death came less than six months after her husband of 50 years, Anthony Costanzo, died.
The couple lived in West Hempstead from 1958 to 1968 and Saratoga Springs thereafter. Besides being an ace assistant who colleagues said had "near encyclopedic knowledge of faculty and curriculum," Costanzo loved classic movies, modern dance and Latin music, Paula Costanzo said.
"She didn't think she was, but she was an artist," said Costanzo, a studio supervisor at Queens College's art department.
Costanzo's creations were in her garden, abloom with peonies and sunflowers, and in the kitchen, where she made a pot roast she learned to cook from her mother. Like her own mom did when a young Marie first invited Anthony to her home, she prepared that recipe when her daughter Christina asked her future husband to dinner.
Brought up in Brooklyn, Marie Stalzer graduated St. Joseph Commercial High School in 1951 with Regents honors. But the expense and the norms of the day kept her from attending college, Paula Costanzo said. "My grandmother ... was glad she could send my mother and her sister to that high school so they wouldn't have to work in the factory," she said.
It would not be so with her girls, whom she birthed in five years after marrying Anthony in 1958. In 1971, she took a part-time job at Skidmore College and became a full-time assistant to the music department chair. The position enabled her three youngest to earn degrees there without being saddled with debt.
"It was a priceless gift," said Christina Neuner of Amityville.
Costanzo was proud of her career, including a stint as a researcher at Grant Advertising in Manhattan, where she met her husband.
She was a parishioner at St. Clement Roman Catholic Church in Saratoga Springs and a member of the Saratoga Film Forum.
Survivors include her other two daughters, Anita Costanzo of Everett, Mass., and Andrea Costanzo of Saratoga Springs, and a sister, Dorothy DeRosa of Staten Island.
Newsday (Long Island, NY)
Date: September 24, 2009
Edition: ALL EDITIONS
Page: A38
Record Number: 892436589
Copyright (c) 2009 Newsday, Inc.
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