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Alma Kuby Obituary

Alma Miriam Kuby died at home on October 22. Born to Fannie and Sam Mazur in White Plains, NY in 1933, she graduated from Antioch College in 1956, and received a master's degree in Sociology and an MBA from the University of Chicago. Her 50-year career as a social policy researcher and executive manager focused on health and child welfare. She directed studies on such issues as foster care, immunization, and drug use in minority youth. After retiring she counseled abused women and served on a federal advisory committee. She is missed by her husband Ray, sons Michael and Eric, grandchildren Alex, Michelle and Brooke, great granddaughter Jane, sister Marcia Elwitt, and many others.

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Published by Chicago Tribune on Nov. 14, 2021.

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Andrew Korsak

November 14, 2021

May God be very near to Alma's survivors at this time when the earth may be reeling for you. (See Psalm 46:1-2, Tanakh). Alma hired me as a temporary coder in the research department at the American Hospital Association in 1973. When I transferred out of that department in 1976, I was a project director thanks to Alma's willingness to take a chance on a U of C sociology graduate school dropout. My late wife Trisha and I last saw Alma probably in 2001 on an IC (Metra Electric) train coming north from Homewood. She was riding north to downtown Chicago from Hyde Park. I appreciated her kindnesses and encouragement. She will be greatly missed.

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