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Vira Mamchur Schwartz

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vschwartz@dailyvoice.com

Vira Mamchur Schwartz is the quintessential jack-of-all-trades... and master of a few of them. Vira’s editorial career started in technology publishing, writing and editing at the Ziff-Davis publication Computer Shopper. Later she served as Managing Editor at CD-ROM World and then Internet World, before moving to freelance writing.

Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, L.A. Times, Folio, Portable Computing, Internet Shopper and other websites and magazines that no longer exist. She ghost-wrote and designed an award-winning diet and fitness book for a popular fitness personality and, currently, loves to tell stories about people and animals.

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Obituaries

Margot Cantrall, 82, Of Danbury: Chemist, Accomplished Singer Margot (Benz) Cantrall, 82, died on March 22 in Danbury Hospital with her loving family by her side. She was born in New York City on August 21, 1937 to Max and Louise (Steudle) Benz, who emigrated from Germany in the 1920s. Margot grew up in the Pelham Bay area of the Bronx and attended both Hunter High School and Hunter College, graduating with a BA in Chemistry in 1959. That same year she joined Lederle Laboratories — part of American Cyanamid, where she met her future husband, Edward Cantrall, also a chemist. She was a member of the team which developed Ethambutol, a. well-known anti-…

by Daily Voice

03/25/2020

Obituaries

Domenica Scotto Dittmeier, 94, Formerly of Valhalla, Remembered For Her Strong Spirit Former Westchester resident Domenica Scotto Dittmeier died peacefully at the age of 94 on March 18 at Spring Hills Senior Residence in Alexandria, VA. She was born on March 15, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York and was the last surviving child of Domenico and Adele Scotto. She graduated from Columbia University with a Bachelor of Science and then obtained a Master of Arts at Manhattanville College and called Valhalla home for over 50 years. She joins her pre-deceased family members, her loving husband George (1924-2014), her daughter Lydia (1955-2013) and her siblings, Marcela, Vally and Michael.…

by Daily Voice

03/23/2020

Lifestyle

Surviving Hate Is A Heroic Act: Westchester Author Shares Her Father’s Tale “Survivor’s guilt” is part of our lexicon now. But did you know it was first identified in the 1960s as a condition suffered by Holocaust survivors? Can you imagine, feeling such guilt for having survived when no one else — not your parents, your siblings, your friends, people you used to pass in the street — made it out alive? Seeing it as a failure of character that you lived when it’s really a testament to strength? “… he could not sing because expressing joy wasn’t something he could do.” Chappaqua’s Ella Scheinwald, an executive and management consultant and principal at NYC Advisors…

by Vira Mamchur Schwartz

03/20/2020

Lifestyle

From Football To The FBI, Longtime Fairfield County Resident Milton Graham Shares His Story The way the story was shared in the news a couple of years back, you’d think Charles Tillman, known as one of the best cornerbacks in Chicago Bears history, was the first retired professional football player to become an FBI agent. But you’d be wrong. That honor actually belongs to another (albeit briefly) former Bear — 85-year-old Milton Graham. Graham now calls an assisted-living facility in Norwalk, Brightview, home after losing his wife of 60 years less than a year ago and becoming beset by health issues — but he still has stories to tell, like how a highly recruited high school basket…

by Vira Mamchur Schwartz

03/13/2020

Schools

CT High Schools Can Apply Now for New Grant For Free Tech Curriculum These days, budget cuts have school districts scrambling. Vital programs are being cut while the demand for talent in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) is growing. To help fill this need, New Haven-based District Innovation and Venture Center (DIVC), the nonprofit parent organization behind Holberton School in New Haven announced that it has partnered with Milestone C to provide groundbreaking STEM programs, along with teacher training and support, to Connecticut-based high schools at no cost. This will be made possible through a grant from DIVC/Holberton School Ne…

by Daily Voice

03/12/2020

Lifestyle

True-Crime Buffs & Podcasters: Westchester's Friends For Ever Tell Of Murder And Mayhem The guitars snarl, the drums beat and cymbals clang. It’s intense, loud, and fitting. It’s the opening to the podcast Nefarious New York and no other musical intro could set the stage better for the discussion to come about rapists, murders, serial killers and unsolved crimes in and around Westchester County. Fans of crime and the unexplained since their formative years in New Rochelle, Nefarious New York podcast hosts Alison Arcuri McCormack and Meredith Buono DaGrossa have a friendship that goes back to their very first day of kindergarten at Holy Family School, a few years shy of four de…

by Vira Mamchur Schwartz

03/06/2020

Obituaries

Mount Kisco's Brenda Barnes, Beloved Mother, Grandmother, Longtime Laerdal Medical Employee, 80 Longtime Mount Kisco resident Brenda Elizabeth Barnes — a loving mother and grandmother, cherished sister and beloved aunt who savored the arts, culture and literature and whose experiences across the globe gave her a gracious wisdom and sense of humor — died on Sunday, Jan. 26. She was 80. Brenda was born on June 2, 1939, one of the first to be born at Wilcox Memorial Hospital in Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii, in what was then a territory of the United States. She lived in Kealia, Kauai with her parents and sisters, attending Kauai’s Kapaa Schools and later Punahou High School on Oahu until …

by Vira Mamchur Schwartz

02/28/2020

Obituaries

Former Teacher From Englewood Charlotte Benner, 86, Lived Remarkably Merry Life Charlotte Benner, 86, died peacefully in her sleep at home in Yarmouth Port, MA, on Feb. 13 Charlotte was born in New York City on August 1, 1933, the “one and only” child of Charles Van Antwerp and Katherine Karcher Benner. She spent her formative years in Englewood, where she attended the Elisabeth Morrow and Dwight-Englewood schools. Among the accolades that the Dwight senior class bestowed on Charlotte was "Most Distinguished Laugh" -- an honor she undoubtedly would have contended for within any group she joined through her remarkably merry life. Following her graduation f…

by Vira Mamchur Schwartz

02/26/2020

Lifestyle

Jurassic World Live Tour Brings Film Universe to Bridgeport's Webster Arena Dinosaurs have captivated human imagination since the first fossils were found. Modern cinema has created lifelike creatures from imagination, and now Jurassic World Live Tour brings dinosaurs to life right before your very eyes. Part of an almost year-long tour, Jurassic World Live Tour will be at Bridgeport’s Webster Arena from Thursday, March 5 to Sunday, March 8. Using life-size dinosaur puppets, the just-under-two-hour show tells a story within the Jurassic Park film universe of paleontologist Dr. Kate Walker and her unique relationship with Genie, short for Genius, an especially preco…

by Vira Mamchur Schwartz

02/21/2020

Lifestyle

Stamford’s Teen Center Needs Your Help With Final Touches The days of a welcoming soda shop on the corner where the gang would meet and settle in a booth for hours after school is long gone—if it ever existed. Today’s teens often find themselves in a whirlwind, caught between family, school, college and career planning, jobs, and peer pressure amplified by social media. Thanks to the Stamford Boys & Girls Club, serving the community since 1927, Stamford’s teens and young adults will have the specific support and guidance they need at a new Teen Center. Construction on the Teen Center started in the summer of 2019 and is finishing up.&n…

by Daily Voice

02/19/2020

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