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Sister Mary Assumpta Mazza, P.B.V.M., who was a college adviser at St. Michael Academy, Manhattan, died Aug. 21 at Mount St. Joseph, New Windsor. She was 95.
She was an adviser at St. Michael's, a high school for girls, from 1988 to 2002 and taught there from 1942 to 1960. From 1983 to 1988 she was an adjunct faculty member of Elizabeth Seton College, which had a branch at St. Michael's.
She also was a professor of history at Mount St. Mary College, Newburgh, 1960-1983; and an adjunct faculty member at Manhattan College, the Bronx, 1948-1952.
She was dean of Presentation Junior College in New Windsor, 1964-1967, and a teacher at St. John's High School, Goshen, 1960-1963, and Mount St. Joseph Academy, New Windsor, 1939-1942.
Born in Manhattan, she entered the Presentation Sisters in 1937 and professed final vows in 1942. She held a bachelor's degree from Manhattan College and a master's and a doctorate from St. John's University, all in history.
A Funeral Mass was offered Aug. 25 at Mount St. Joseph Chapel, with burial at Mount St. Joseph Cemetery.
