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LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION mourning the death of Geraldine Anne Ferraro,
former Queens congresswoman and first woman nominated as a United States
Vice Presidential candidate

WHEREAS, It is the sense of this Legislative Body to recognize and pay
tribute to individuals of distinguished purpose and true commitment who
dedicated their lives and careers to public service and the pursuit of
excellence in the conduct of the legislative process; and
WHEREAS, It is with great sorrow and deepest regret that this Legisla-
tive Body, representing the people of the State of New York, records the
passing of Geraldine Anne Ferraro, noting the significance of her
purposeful life and accomplishments; and
WHEREAS, Geraldine A. Ferraro, the former Queens congresswoman who
made history in 1984 as the first Italian-American and the first woman
nominated for national office by a major party when she accepted the
Democratic nomination for vice president, died Saturday, March 26, 2011,
in Boston, Massachusetts, at the age of 75; and
WHEREAS, Born on August 26, 1935, in the Hudson River city of
Newburgh, New York, where she was the fourth child and only daughter of
Dominick Ferraro, an Italian immigrant who owned a restaurant and a
five-and-dime store, and the former Antonetta L. Corrieri; and
WHEREAS, After the death of her father when she was just 8 years old,
Geraldine A. Ferraro's mother sold the family store and their home, and
moved to the South Bronx, and later to Queens; and
WHEREAS, Geraldine A. Ferraro attended the Marymount School, a Cathol-
ic boarding school in Tarrytown, New York; her outstanding grades earned
her a scholarship to Marymount College in Tarrytown; and
WHEREAS, An English major, Geraldine A. Ferraro transferred to Marym-
ount College Manhattan where she was an athlete as well as editor of the
school newspaper; she won numerous honors before graduating in 1956; and
WHEREAS, After graduating, Geraldine A. Ferraro taugh

Geraldine Ferraro, the former Queens, N.Y., congresswoman who in 1984 strode onto a podium to accept the Democratic nomination for vice president and to take her place in U.S. history as the first woman nominated for national office by a major party, died Saturday at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. She was 75.

The cause was complications from multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that she had battled for 12 years, her family said in a statement.

“If we can do this, we can do anything,” Ferraro declared on a July evening to a cheering Democratic National Convention in San Francisco. And for a moment, for the Democratic Party and an untold number of American women, anything seemed possible: a woman occupying the second-highest office in the land, a derailing of the Republican juggernaut led by President Ronald Reagan, a President Walter Mondale.

It did not turn out that way — not by a long shot. After the roars in the Moscone Center had subsided and a fitful general election campaign had run its course, hopes for Mondale and his plain-speaking, barrier-breaking running mate were buried in a Reagan landslide. But Ferraro’s supporters proclaimed a victory of sorts nonetheless: 64 years after women won the right to vote, a woman had removed the “men only” sign from the White House door.

It would be another 24 years before another woman from a major party was nominated for vice president — Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, the Republican running mate of Sen. John McCain in 2008. And though Hillary Rodham Clinton came close to being nominated that year in her primary run as a senator from New York, a woman has yet to occupy the Oval Office. But Ferraro’s ascendance gave many women heart.

President Barack Obama on Saturday said in a statement, “Geraldine will forever be remembered as a trailblazer who broke down barriers for women, and Americans of all backgrounds and walks of life.”

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Donna Zaccaro Ullman is the founder and president of Dazzling Media and Ferrodonna Features Inc. Both are New York-based media production companies that produce documentary, independent and corporate films, as well as television and web video content - one for profit and the other nonprofit, with a mission of producing films about women, women’s issues and social justice issues. Donna directed the award-winning documentary To a More Perfect Union: United States v. Windsor (2017) as well as Geraldine Ferraro: Paving the Way (2013), a critically acclaimed documentary chronicling the political and family life of her mother. Donna is also a principal of Homestead Finance, LLC, a real estate investment company. Donna has served on the boards of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation and the Grace Church School (NY). 

Zaccaro earned an A.B. from Brown University in comparative literature and an MBA from Harvard University. 

TORONTO – Despite last week’s “Matt Damon is dead” Internet rumor, the 38-year-old actor was very much alive and in good humor at the Toronto Film Festival, where his film “The Informant!” premiered.

The Boston native is also back to his fighting weight, after packing on 30 pounds for the lead role.

The movie, which opens Friday, is based on a true story, one that he and director Steven Soderbergh have been working to get on the big screen for seven years. Damon plays Mark Whitacre, an executive at Archer Daniels Midland whose undercover work helped the FBI nail the biggest international corporate price-fixing case in history. Whitacre was initially hailed as a hero but soon exposed as an embezzler with a very tenuous connection to the truth.

With filming weeks away, Damon asked Soderbergh, “What do you want this guy to look like physically?”

“Doughy” was the reply.

“So those were my marching orders,” Damon said during an interview at Toronto’s Fairmont Royal York Hotel.

“I didn’t question it. I just started eating – and there’s actually a little prosthetic piece o

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