Scarsdale Adult School (SAS) has inducted Marilyn DeRight into its Hall of Fame. Whether discussing movies or fiction, DeRight has been inspiring SAS students for many years. She has also been an adjunct professor of English at Iona College and taught classes on the short story at Westchester Community College.
She has also been a key component in many SAS special events and is known to a devoted group of students for leading a weekly Movie Matinees series in dozens of consecutive semesters. With the benefit of her insights and annotations, movie-goers have gathered together to screen and discuss hundreds of films, with each course bound by a common theme. Food, mystery, films about artists or musicians or authors, international productions, scenic masterpieces, troubled relationships, families, classics, film noir and mistaken identity have all had a turn in her rotation.
DeRight’s perennial fan favorite classes on novels and short stories have similarly covered topics that run the gamut.
Despite some initial trepidation, DeRight was one of SAS’s earliest instructors to embrace online teaching when the pandemic caused a temporary halt to in-person courses. She has never looked back and now holds all of her classes on Zoom and even records them for those unable to attend the live stream.
