Sandra will be remembered by the former students who ran up to hug her in parking lots and grocery stores up to fifty years after being in her classroom to tell her she had changed their lives. After retirement, as a talented watercolorist, she rented a studio at ArtSpace Maynard and began showing her seascapes throughout New England and teaching art classes to students of all ages, first at her studio, and then at community centers and museums, including the Danforth, the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum and the Sudbury Senior Center. At the age of 50, she earned her master’s degree at Wheelock College and became the principal of the Merriam School in Acton for fourteen years. When her children were small, she taught at the White House Preschool in Sudbury with her dear friend Sandra Harding, and then returned to elementary education at the Douglas School in Acton. She graduated from the University of Massachusetts and began teaching at Sudbury’s Loring School, where her entire first grade class attended her wedding at the Martha Mary Chapel in 1967. Sandra was born in Waltham in 1942 to Karl and Ellen Dorothy Borg. This epitomizes who she was, in every single aspect of her life. Over the course of each winter she would drive in the pre-dawn hours to leave warm coats and boots on their doorsteps, a fact she never revealed to a soul. Sandra Ellen (Borg) Wilensky, who died on February 7, 2022, was a person who, as a school principal, took note of which of her hundreds of students shivered through recess.
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