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''Adirondack Daily Enterprise, ''December 5, 1995

'''New Equipment Donated to AMC in Honor of Dr. Steward'''

Mrs. Angeline Rienzie, age 78, came to Saranac Lake in the mid 1940s to "cure" from TB at the Prescott House in Saranac Lake. After recovering, Mrs. Rienzie did bookwork for Trudeau Institute and worked at the Lake Placid Club. She then got a job working in the lab at the General Hospital of Saranac Lake under the direction of Dr. Dorothy Steward. Dr. Steward encouraged Mrs. Rienzie to learn histology telling her that she would always be able to "take care of herself" with this knowledge. Upon leaving the General Hospital, Mrs. Rienzie went to school in Albany to study histology and later worked in hospitals in Oswego and Syracuse. She then relocated to the New York City area where she worked in the laboratory of the Nassau County Medical Center retiring in 1981. However, she continues to work part-time preparing slides for medical students at the New York Institute of Technology College. 

Upon donating the $6,000 check to the Adirondack Medical Center, Mrs. Rienzie said that she has worked all her life and does not have a lot of money for philanthropic purposes, but she wanted to honor Dr. Dorothy Steward in some meaningful way as an expression of appreciation for guiding her into her career field.