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Lois Padawer
October 17, 2023
Diana Cavallo was my fifth grade teacher at a Jewish school in Brooklyn in the school year 1959-1960. She was the greatest teacher I had in my life, and I've had a few excellent ones. Her lectures on diagramming sentences were inspiring. (I later had a career as chief of English proofreaders at the UN.) She taught with a full range of fun and variety, including skits in which we had to play different animals. She was outgoing and friendly, and I remember her strolling with my mother and me on the local main street and talking about first and last names and how they balanced. After the introduction of easy use of computers, I fantasized for years about contacting her and thanking her, but did not do it, to my regret. I hope her nieces see all the nice memories here about what a wonderful person she was.
Robert Amsel
June 14, 2022
I was a student of Diana's in New York, where I became friends with her for many years and then later with Karl too, through their courtship and beautiful marriage. Diana was one of the most loving and caring teachers I ever had and anyone who had the privilege of knowing her will feel a bit emptier from her passing.
Miriam "Mimi" MacFarland
August 29, 2017
My first encounter with the great Diana Cavallo was as a student of her Advanced Fiction Writing class at Penn. She made mincemeat of my writing while at the same time encouraging the points she found to be superior to "any other writing she had seen". I earned a 4.0 for that one and took the course again. With Diana, there was always more to learn. She was a great teacher, a fine artist in her own right, and an unstinting champion of the work of her late husband, Karl Hagedorn. To know them intimately was among my life's greatest privileges. To see them interacting was a delight. And that she did not let his life, his work, or his death prevent her from that which she was intended to do, will remain a testament to Diana, always.
Luigi Giampaolo
July 22, 2017
Riposa in pace
Todd Holtsberry
July 15, 2017
Diana, you were a dear friend, who was like an aunt to me. I will always miss you, and will hold our shared memories in my heart.
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