Dr. Monica Sergott
Monica Lucile Lyman was born in September of 1905 in Champaign County, Illinois, the daughter of Ellen J. Curtin and Thomas M. Lyman, who were both of Irish descent.
She had five sisters and three brothers.
She attended Urbana High School in Illinois where she was class president, played volleyball, was a member of the glee club
and acted in plays.
Monica received a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Illinois in 1936, followed by a master's from Western Reserve in 1938 and a Ph.D from Catholic University of America School of Social Science in 1943.
On November 29, 1938, she married Edmund T. Sergott in Arlington, Virginia. He was a professor of economics and later worked for the Detroit Labor Board. He died in 1969.
She had one son, Edmund W. Sergott, who died in 1982, and one granddaughter.
Monica worked with the Community Service Society of New York City,
where she was Queens County senior supervisor from 1955 to 1961.
She served in several teaching roles, including on the faculty of Adelphi University School of Social Work and the Hunter College School of Social Work.
A clinical psychologist and social worker, she began her private practice in 1966.
She died at her home in Forest Hills, Queens, at the age of 71.