MSW Alum Melina Waldo, Advocate for Gay Rights, Passes Away at 76

Melina Waldo, an MSW alum and a former national, regional and local official for Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), passed away on October 6, 2014. Ms Waldo served as a PFLAG national board member from 1997-2001, director in the 2000s of the region that covered New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and Philadelphia Chapter Vice President from 2002-2004.  "She had a way of communicating to parents, to political figures," said Frances Kirschner, past president of the PFLAG Philadelphia chapter. "She was able to articulate all the love we have for our gay and lesbian children." Read more about her life and accomplishments in the Philadelphia Inquirer.