A photo of Sister Blanche, a member of the academy’s faculty who died in July, is in a basket with bags filled with birdseed.
Maria R. Bastone
Sister Teresa Barton, C.N.D., principal of Villa Maria Academy in the Bronx, places birdseed in the wooden feeder made by Norm Peduzzi, husband of eighth-grade teacher, Rita Peduzzi, at the academy’s 14th annual Peace Day Sept. 20. The theme was “Celebrating the Life of a Woman of Peace—Sister Blanche Laporte, C.N.D.”