[Vision2020] Death of an adjunct

[Art Deco]

Tragic.

More so because:
** <http://www.duq.edu/>*Duquesne University* - Pittsburgh, PA | *Duquesne
University* <http://www.duq.edu/>
www.duq.edu/
412.396.6000 - The largest, most comprehensive* Catholic **university* in
Pennsylvania with more than 10000 students in 10 schools of study.

WWJS?


On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1 at frontier.com> wrote:

> Death of an adjunct
>
> September 18, 2013 12:06 am
>
> By Daniel Kovalik
>
> On Sept. 1, Margaret Mary Vojtko, an adjunct professor who had taught
> French at Duquesne University for 25 years, passed away at the age of 83.
> She died as the result of a massive heart attack she suffered two weeks
> before. As it turned out, I may have been the last person she talked to.
>
> http://www.post-gazette.com/**stories/opinion/perspectives/**
> death-of-an-adjunct-703773/<http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/perspectives/death-of-an-adjunct-703773/>
>
> On Aug. 16, I received a call from a very upset Margaret Mary. She told me
> that she was under an incredible amount of stress. She was receiving
> radiation therapy for the cancer that had just returned to her, she was
> living nearly homeless because she could not afford the upkeep on her home,
> which was literally falling in on itself, and now, she explained, she had
> received another indignity -- a letter from Adult Protective Services
> telling her that someone had referred her case to them saying that she
> needed assistance in taking care of herself. The letter said that if she
> did not meet with the caseworker the following Monday, her case would be
> turned over to Orphans' Court.
>
> The rest of the story is at the link above.
>
>
> Ken
>
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