Our Condolences to the Elkind Family

The following is a re-posting of an official announcement that was made to the Campus community on 9/21/2010.

Charlotte Woods Elkind, the former associate graduate dean at Conolly College who retired in 2005, died on September 14 at the age of 84.

“Dean Elkind’s ability to focus on the real needs and characteristics of our graduate students was so much more than her professional responsibility: it was always uppermost in her mind,” said Conolly College Dean David Cohen.

A prominent figure on campus who always spoke and dressed with elegance, Charlotte was well-known as the editor of the Campus’s graduate bulletin and as co-director of an NEH grant to the Brooklyn Campus that explored teaching “Classic Texts of Non-Western Civilization.”

She came to the Brooklyn Campus in 1977 as a graduate counselor, before becoming assistant dean and then associate graduate dean of Conolly College.

Prior to this she taught history at the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn.
A proud Brooklynite, Charlotte lived in Brooklyn Heights and was an authority on the history of Brooklyn, post-Civil War to the present. She was affiliated with the Brooklyn Historical Society and was at one time the vice president of the Roebling Society, Brooklyn Museum.

She was born in Evanston, Illinois and graduated from the University of Rochester in 1947 before receiving an M.A. degree from Columbia University and a certificate of archival administration from New York University.

Adored wife for 59 years of Morton Digby Elkind who died in August, she was a devoted mother to her children Elisabeth, Sam and Margaret and a doting grandmother to her five grandchildren.

Her memorial service will be held on Friday, October 29th, at 1 p.m. in the Green-Wood Cemetery Chapel in Brooklyn.