Daily News | Mary Berko, math teacher and lifelong champion of learning, has died at 92
Courtesy of Liz Anne Gutwein-GuentherMary Berko, 92, of Collingswood, math teacher, champion of Mount St. Joseph Academy, and maternal figure to many, died Sunday, April 9, of pulmonary edema at Virtua-Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital.
“She could cook anybody under the table,” said Gutwein-Guenther, though her mother was best known for her meatballs — andWhat’s more, Mrs. Berko practiced what she preached. Emphasizing the importance of an education and how learning is a lifelong endeavor, Mrs. Berko would return to school in her 50s and earn her master’s degree in education at the former Beaver College, now Arcadia University.
When Mrs. Berko wasn’t teaching or tutoring for SAT prep, she volunteered as a lector at Saint Vincent Pallotti Church. She spent years with the housing authority ofGutwein-Guenthe said her mother’s signature refrain was, “People are the most important thing. Get involved.”
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