Lorraine Fontana:
CLASS OF 1964
Newtown High SchoolClass of 1964
Elmhurst, NY
Lorraine's Story
Lorraine is from Astoria, Queens, New York. Lorraine's attended Newtown High School as an Art Major from 1960-64. Lorraine later attended Queens College, City University of New York (1964-68) getting a B.A. in Psychology, Emory University Grad School (1970-72), and later the People's College of Law in Los Angeles (1976-79. After passing the Georgia Bar she worked briefly as an attorney for Georgia Legal Services in Savannah, GA before withdrawing from the practice of law. Lorraine later returned to the legal arena as a paralegal and worked at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in NYC, and the U.S. Securities And Exchange Commission and Lambda Legal in Atlanta, Georgia (1999-2012) ,after which she retired.
Some favorite quotes: "HELPED are those who lose their fear of death; theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass. "
- Alice Walker (from The Gospel According to Shug in "The Temple of My Familiar")
Wisdom comes from...Expand for more
wrestling with despair and not allowing despair to have the last word. That's why hope is always blood-stained and tear-soaked.
- Cornell West
"The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives."
- Audre Lorde
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. - - Dwight D. Eisenhower
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
- Anais Nin
Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.
-Tecumseh".
More about Lorraine:"Atlanta, GA
I'm a cat lover.
...and a film-lover also.
I enjoy eating - too much :-)
My spirit has always flown to standing for social justice - from Civil Rights and Black Empowerment ally work to Anti-War and Anti-Imperialist to Women's & LGBTQI rights. People I meet along this path are my family.".
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