Petriana Monize
From 2003 until her death at the age of 61, she was a tenured professor of English at HCC.
Monize was born in Georgetown, Guyana, and moved to New York City when she was 14. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Hunter College and a master’s degree from New York University, where she had been a doctoral student in the English education and pedagogy program. Prior to HCC, her teaching experiences included colleges in New York City and high school in Florida.
Monize encouraged her students to acknowledge the value of their own richly personal experiences in their writing and to honor those lived experiences by writing from their hearts. She built deep and abiding relationships with her HCC colleagues, connecting with them through both teaching and socializing.
She loved literature and poetry and had an extensive collection of literature, pedagogy, philosophy, psychology, Zen, and poetry books. She particularly liked the works of more contemporary Buddhist writers. She was active in all seasons, either jogging, hiking in the woods, or snowshoeing. She was a teacher in the Green River Zen Center.
She is survived by her husband Reuven Goldstein and children Naomi and Jahian Cooper-Monize.
We are saddened to learn of the passing of the following members of the HCC community:
Robert P. Foley ’59
Mitchell J. Salamon ’62
Carol Salamon ’63
Marsha Ryan ’70, retired staff
Patrick J. Monahan ’71
Frederick I. Holton ’72
Gary B. Szymaniak ’74
Robert J. Kotfila ’76
Laura Kida ’80
Ina Y. Klimczuk ’81
Roland W. Monfette ’83
Paul M. Benware ’87
Christopher J. Clark ’89
Michael R. Favreau ’90
Peter J. Liptak ’95
Victor F. Caputo, III ’10
