Friday, August 6, 2010
 
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES DEANERY — Mary Ann Stansfield, a retired teacher and administrator at St. Rita School for the Deaf, was honored recently by the Greater Cincinnati Planned Giving Council with a Voices of Giving Award. The school made the nomination.

Greg Ernst, executive director of St. Rita, Mary Ann Stansfield, Angela Frith and Robin Bayowski of St. Rita. (Courtesy photo)

For the past 95 years, no child has ever been denied an education at St. Rita School for the Deaf due to financial hardship. Stansfield has dedicated 38 years to that ministry — as a teacher, principal and director of special services. Now in retirement, she continues to be an ambassador for the school throughout the community. She created the Mary Ann Stansfield Scholarship Fund to provide skilled professionals, programs, materials, technology, tuition assistance and opportunities to develop programs that will help each individual student grow to his/her fullest potential socially, emotionally, intellectually, physically and spiritually.
 
The Greater Cincinnati Planned Giving Council is a professional association of individuals whose life work helps ensure the viability of charitable organizations. For more information about planned gifts, the public is invited to visit www.gcpgc.org.