{"id":34178,"date":"2025-11-09T21:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T21:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/34178\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T21:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T21:27:10","slug":"100-year-old-bay-ridge-teacher-honored-at-borough-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/34178\/","title":{"rendered":"100-year-old Bay Ridge teacher honored at Borough Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bay Ridge has a hero!<\/p>\n

St. Ephrem\u2019s Elementary School math teacher and tutor Madeline Scotto, who celebrated her 100th birthday this past October, was honored at Brooklyn Borough Hall on Wednesday, December 17 during the borough president\u2019s Hero of the Month ceremony.<\/p>\n

Scotto received the award for the month of November.\u00a0\u00a0Borough President Eric Adams addressed the crowd that consisted of students, family and friends of Scotto.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor being a truly tireless teacher and the inspiration she has given to Brooklynites young and old over the course of her long career educating our youth, I would like to honor Madeline Scotto as Brooklyn Hero of the Month for November,\u201d Adams said.<\/p>\n

Scotto was thrilled by the honor, but was quick to explain that it wasn\u2019t just about her. \u201cI really feel that this day is not my day. It is the boys\u2019 day,\u201d she said regarding two students, Jack L. and Anthony P., who she\u2019s trained for the local math bee and who joined her during the ceremony. \u201cThey\u2019re the ones who work hard. I only make up the questions. That\u2019s the easy part. They\u2019re the ones that have to do the answering. And the boys deserve a lot of credit because they give up their recess time to be coached, so I think the day is about the boys and their parents, the school. I come last.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scotto\u2019s lessons have paid off for the students, as Jack won the Math Bee for Brooklyn and Queens last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re lifelong Brooklyn residents so to be honored by our county means a great deal,\u201d added Scotto\u2019s daughter, Michelle. \u201cShe\u2019s had a lot of honors over her life and she\u2019s been interviewed a lot as well. It\u2019s been a little bit overwhelming but she\u2019s happy about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scotto, who started her teaching career in St. Ephrem\u2019s in 1960, still works at the school on a part-time basis. The school helped the dedicated teacher celebrate her birthday with a Mass and reception that local dignitaries, students, family and friends attended. In 2009, she was also awarded the highest honor to be bestowed on a lay person by the Pope.<\/p>\n

Scotto was joined by firefighter Lieutenant Robert Whelan, who received the award for December for saving a boy\u2019s life during a fire at Brownsville this past November.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrooklyn is home to a wide range of heroes, from young firefighters to teachers that are still young at heart,\u201d noted Adams.<\/p>\n

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