The enduring impact of alumni Marion and Salvatore Brancaccio
Victoria College alumni Marion (Cooper) Brancaccio (1923–2012) and her husband Salvatore (1927–2021) had a deep and abiding love for their college, supporting the Victoria College Annual Fund for more than four decades. In 2006, they made a major gift to endow The Salvatore and Marion (Cooper) Brancaccio Scholarship, an in-course scholarship awarded to Victoria College students achieving excellence during their studies.
Through the scholarship, the couple paid tribute to Professor Laure Rièse, a member of the Victoria College teaching staff whom Marion greatly admired and with whom she shared a love for the French language. Marion’s career included 36 years teaching French and German at Toronto’s Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute.