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Best of the Bronx 2008 Honoree: Dorothy Madden

February 17, 2011

By Staff Reporter

The granddaughter of immigrants from Co. Galway, Dorothy Madden was born on St. Ann’s Ave. in the South Bronx 61 years ago, in St. Francis Hospital. The youngest of five children, she grew up on Eagle Ave., where she still has many friends today. She attended St. Anselm and Our Lady of Victory schools, and Cathedral High School. For the past 30 years, she has lived in the Throgs Neck section of the Bronx, where she is a member of St. Benedict’s Parish. She is a secular Franciscan.
In 1965, Madden embarked upon a career in banking, working as a teller in the Dollar Savings Bank on the Grand Concourse and Fordham Road. In 1992, the bank became Emigrant Savings Back, and Madden rose through the ranks to the position of vice president.
In 1999, Madden gave up her banking career and dedicated her life to serving the poor, working at the John Thomas Travis Drug and Alcohol Center in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx. In 2000, after the death of the center’s founder, Sr. Helen Travis, Madden moved in and took on the responsibility for managing the facility. In 2005, the center underwent renovation and was renamed in honor of the founder.

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