Mafalda DiMango remembered as compassionate education leader
Mafalda DiMango, a Dyker Heights community leader and educational activist who served for decades on the local school board overseeing enormous changes in everything from classroom instruction to cafeteria lunch menus, died on Aug. 2. She was 91 years old.
DiMango was a member of Community School Board 20 for more than 30 years and then served on the Community Education Council of School District 20 when the state education law was changed in 2002 and school boards were abolished.
The civic-minded DiMango was also a charter member of Community Board 11 in Bensonhurst and belonged to the Dyker Heights Civic Association for many years.