Nora Ephron

Nora Ephron was beloved by so many for so much.

Novelist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, director, feminist, pseudo-feminist…

She enjoyed compiling lists and to the list of her accomplishments

we’d like to add one more:

PencilPAL.

Nora Ephron was a special friend to the SAG Foundation.

She was an enthusiastic participant in our PencilPALS program and over the past 2 years she corresponded monthly with individual fifth grade students at PS 16 in Corona Queens, helping to inspire them to love reading and letter-writing in an increasingly digital world.

At the end of each year she came to the school to meet with the class for the year-end PencilPALS celebration.

“These kids are wonderful,” said Ephron in 2011, adding that her pen pal was “the only person who writes me letters besides the electric company and the phone company.”

In a thank-you note to the Foundation, Janine Esposito, the teacher at PS 16 wrote:

“Ms. Ephron’s love for the written word and dedication to making a difference in children’s lives truly had an impact on my class at PS 16 in Corona Queens. Her visit to our room and her words of wisdom influenced my class to continue to reach for their dreams!!”

In 2011, Nora ended a list of the things she would miss with:

Taking a bath

Coming over the bridge to Manhattan

Pie

We will miss:

Her wit and humor

Her fierce love of writing

Her generosity of spirit

And most of all:

Her