Jane Borgerhoff, who had been the executive director of Center City Crime Victim Services in Philadelphia, died April 14, 2015, of central nervous system lymphoma. She was 66.
Born in Princeton, Borgerhoff was the daughter of the late Princeton professor of French, E.B.O. Borgerhoff ’30 *34. She graduated from Princeton Day School in 1967, and in 1971 from the University of Michigan with a bachelor’s degree in history.
She was politically active even before college, and continued to develop a sense of community and social responsibility with a special interest in education. She began a master’s degree in education at the Antioch Graduate School and taught second grade for a year.
Borgerhoff’s interest in history brought her back to Princeton and the University’s graduate school, where she earned a master’s degree in history in 1978, but chose a life outside of academia.
She moved to Philadelphia, worked as a legal assistant, and through her Quaker Meeting started a victim-advocacy group. In 1989, she established Center City Crime Victim Services, which received an award from the mayor of Philadelphia.
She remained a devoted Quaker, and was also a children’s teacher at Friends Meeting’s First Day School.
Borgerhoff is survived by two children and two sisters.
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