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Sister Dorothy Baker, D.H.M., a former professor of social services at Fordham University, died Feb. 16 at Holyoke, Mass., CNY has learned. She was 91.
She served 25 years in India as director of the School of Social Work of the University of Bombay (now Mumbai) during a long career in social services in the United States and abroad. The college honored her service by creating the Dorothy Baker Chair for Social Work.
In the United States she served as a social worker for Catholic Charities in Albany, Boston and Lincoln, Neb. She also helped raise money for St. Joseph’s School for the Deaf in the Bronx in her capacity as a board member.
Born in Albany, she professed first vows as a Daughter of the Heart of Mary in 1955 and final vows in 1965. She held a bachelor’s degree from the College of St. Rose in Albany and master’s and doctoral degrees from Boston College.
A Funeral Mass was offered Feb. 20 at Marian Center Chapel in Holyoke, Mass. Burial followed at St. Jerome’s Cemetery there.
