Shirley Sugarman Wolpert ’46

Shirley Sugarman Wolpert ’46, of Providence and Narragansett, R.I.; June 29, after a brief illness. She was the face that greeted everyone who entered Brown’s Maddock Alumni Center for more than 26 years. As former BAM Editor Norman Boucher put it, she was “Brown’s unofficial ambassador.” In addition to greeting thousands of alumni, students, parents, faculty, and staff, she also met and helped many celebrities through the years, including John F. Kennedy Jr. ’83, George Harrison, Peter Jennings, Andrew Young, Jonas Salk, Danny DeVito, Howard Cosell, and Jane Fonda, to name a few. She was an active member of the Pembroke Club of Providence, eventually serving as president, for which she received the President’s Award in 2001. She was a former member of the Brown Alumni Association Board of Governors and was secretary of her class for many years. She attended her 70th Reunion in 2016 and was upset that there was no 75th Reunion planned in 2021. She is survived by daughter Nancy Wolpert Rachman ’79; a son and daughter-in-law; a son-in-law; two grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; cousin Harold Gadon ’49; and several nieces and nephews.