DR. TERESA P. PICA

PICA

DR. TERESA P. PICA, a pro-fessor at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and one of the world's leading experts in the field of second language acquisition died November 15, 2011 at home in Philadelphia. Dr. Pica was a tireless teacher and caring mentor to thousands of Master's degree students and dozens of Doctoral candidates coming to PENN from all over the world. She was born in Bridgeport, CT on September 26, 1945, but grew up in Trumbull, attending its public school system and graduating from Trumbull High School in 1963. She received a Bachelor's degree in English and Speech Communications from the College of New Rochelle, New York in 1967 and earned a Master's Degree in Speech Pathology from Columbia University, New York City in 1969. She earned her Ph.D in Educational Linguistics from PENN GSE in 1982 and began work as an assistant professor at that school in 1983. At the time of her death in addition to her professorship, Dr. Pica was Director of Penn GSE's TESOL program and co-director of the Penn Lauder CIBER Summer Institute.
Dr. Pica is survived by her sister, Anna Marie Goldberg and her brother-in-law Ronald Goldberg of Orange, CT, her niece Stacie Boering and her husband Ronald of Hartsdale, New York, and her two great nieces Alexandria Boering and Olivia Greco. Dr. Pica is predeceased by her husband Robert Hamilton and her parents Donato and Ida (Palvario) Pica.
A Memorial Service will take place Saturday, December 3, 2011 at 2 P.M. at St. Clement's Church, 2013 Appletree St. Philadelphia. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Dr. Teresa Pica Memorial Scholarship Fund, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, 3700 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (Attention: Alexis Wolson).
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