Daily News | Marianne Casey Nolan, inspirational award-winning elementary school teacher, dies at 88
Marianne Casey Nolan, 88, of Huntingdon Valley, a beloved award-winning elementary school educator who was honored in 2003 as Philadelphia’s longest-serving public schoolteacher, died Wednesday, March 2, of toxic encephalopathy at Ann’s Choice senior living community in Warminster.
Dr. Nolan was so revered by her students and others that, 19 years after her retirement, they flooded Carnell’s private Facebook page with old photos and poignant memories when they learned of her death. “She helped shape me in many ways, not only when I had her but years later,” one former student wrote. Another wrote: “She was the reason I wanted to go to school.”
“No kid was missing in action in her classroom,” former student Alan E. Liebowitz said in 2003. “If a kid was hurt or having a problem, she would feel it and find them.” Liebowitz went on to become the principal at Philadelphia’s George Washington High School. Tina Weinraub attended Carnell, became a librarian, and later spent time with Dr. Nolan as members of Alpha Delta Kappa. “I wasn’t in her class, but she still remembered me from Carnell,” Weinraub said. “She was incredible.”