Gloria Sage
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Gloria Welt Sage died peacefully at home on July 9th.
Gloria was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY and earned her undergraduate degree from Cornell University in 1957. She then obtained a Master of Arts in Chemistry in 1958 at Radcliffe College and completed her PhD in Physical Chemistry at Harvard University in 1963, the first year that Harvard awarded graduate degrees to women.
Gloria retired as a Senior Scientist from SRC, Inc. after 28 years of service. Prior to her employment at SRC, Inc. she served as an assistant professor in Clinical Pathology from 1972-1976 and a research associate in Biochemistry (1971) and Pediatrics (1977) at SUNY Upstate Medical University.
Gloria was involved with many organizations, especially in the environmental, conservation, and civic areas. She reactivated the then defunct Outer Comstock Neighborhood Association in 1979 (OCNA Foundation, Inc.) and served as President for fifteen years. She was one of the founders of the Iroquois Chapter of the Sierra Club. She served on the Community Development Advisory Committee for Syracuse, NY, from 1980 to 1990 and the Syracuse Citizens Cabinet from 2012 to 2014. She served on the Eastern Lake Ontario Dunes Coalition, the Board of the Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music, and volunteered as a Community Tree Steward.
She enjoyed tennis, hiking, cross country and downhill skiing, travel, kayaking, birding, and mushrooming.
Contributions may be made to Temple Concord, the Nature Conservancy or the National Parks Conservation Association.
She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Daniel and Marla, and her grandson Eli of Buffalo, NY; her brother Martin Welt (Ruth) of Del Ray Beach, Fl. and brother-in-law Samuel Sage of Otavalo, Ecuador.
Funeral services will be at 11AM on Friday, July 11th at Temple Concord, 450 Kimber Road. Friends may visit with the family immediately prior to the service from 10-11 at the Temple. Burial will be in the Temple Concord section of Woodlawn Cemetery.
Shiva will be observed at Gloria’s home from sundown to 9:30PM on Saturday the 12th
and Sunday the 13th from 11-1.