She made PFD history for the second time in 2017 when she became head of the 3rd division’s 9th battalion in Germantown.

He was always interested in society, history, and people, and he earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology at Notre Dame, master’s degree at Rutgers, and doctorate at Penn.

He notably wrote about unhealthy conditions and fire hazards in Pennsylvania and New Jersey boardinghouses in the late 1970s and early ‘80s, and those reports resulted in new safety regulations.

She was an expert in financial and investment management, and oversaw Swarthmore’s multi-million dollar operating budget as chief financial officer from 2002 to her retirement in 2015.

He was named South Jersey high school boys’ basketball coach of the year in 1974 by local sports groups and inducted into the Bridgeton High School Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame in 2008.

His former wrestlers praised his gregarious personality and coaching and recruiting skills. One dubbed him the “mayor of college wrestling."

“She was vivacious, athletic, and witty," said Ralph Hirshhorn, founding member of the Chestnut Hill Film Group. "And always was organizing things.”

His career stretched from his native Paris to the Caribbean, Hawaii, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore. He cut a dashing figure at Chanterelles and Philippe at the Locust Club in Philadelphia.

“She took cases where legal issues were undefined and defined them in a practical way,” Susan Gantman, a retired Superior Court judge and former colleague of Judge Beck, told The Inquirer in 2008.

He was born and reared in West Philadelphia, and graduated from Central High School and the social work master’s program at Temple University.

She earned a doctorate in English literature at Columbia in 1965 and taught as an assistant professor at Widener University for four years and then at Bryn Mawr College from 1968 to ‘73.

He got his start in music as a preteen dancer on Dick Clark’s "American Bandstand" and Jerry Blavat’s "The Discophonic Scene" TV shows.

He hosted many special events at his stores and offered free jelly beans, cappuccino, Champagne, and flowers to customers. “Our clients are our friends,” he told the Jewish Exponent.

She covered local education for two newspapers in New England in the 1990s and discovered her affinity and skill for fundraising and nonprofit education journalism.

Mayor Wilson Goode said he hired Mr. Flaherty as deputy mayor in 1985 to “deal with major policy matters facing the city.”