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Sister Eileen O’Gorman, R.S.C.J., who taught English at Manhattanville College for decades, first to undergraduates and later in special programs she co-founded, died Oct. 2 at Teresian House, a nursing home in Albany. She was 98.
She was professor of English at Manhattanville from 1946 to 1981. In 1983, with Sister Ruth Dowd, R.S.C.J., she founded the certificate and evening programs held in Barat House at Manhattanville; she taught there until her retirement to Albany in 2005. The Dowd-O’Gorman Writing Center at Manhattanville is named in the sisters’ honor.
Sister Eileen also taught at the former Maplehurst Academy in the Bronx and at Sacred Heart academies in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Michigan.
Born in Boston, she entered the Religious of the Sacred Heart in Albany in 1932 and professed final vows in 1941. She held a bachelor’s degree in English from Manhattanville College; a master’s degree and a doctorate, both in English, from Fordham University; and a master’s in education from Harvard University.
A Funeral Mass was celebrated Oct. 13 at the Teresian House Chapel, with burial in Kenwood Convent Cemetery in Albany.
