"The mother would call Mary on the phone … and Mary would put her coat on and go out to the parking lot," Rodrigues recalls. That includes the school parking lot, where Sherlach spent many mornings to soothe the fears of one anxious little girl who refused to get out of her mother's car. "Where she was needed - that's where she was." "She didn't draw the line anywhere in terms of where her work started and finished," says Rodrigues, now a school psychologist in Danbury, Conn. Sandy Rodrigues, who interned with Sherlach at Sandy Hook for six months in 2011, agrees. "Every day that I've known her, she has done everything in her power to take care of children, in ways large and small," Lichtenstein says. Sherlach will always be remembered as a hero for her actions on that tragic day, but what many people don't know is that she was a hero throughout her two decades as a school psychologist, says Bob Lichtenstein, PhD, Sherlach's former supervisor at her first psychology job, at New Haven, Conn., public schools. "They didn't think twice," about running toward the sound of gunfire to protect the children, Day said. Sherlach and the principal confronted the shooter in the hallway, where he gunned them down before going on to kill another four staff members and 20 elementary school children. "We were there for about five minutes chatting and we heard, ‘pop pop pop,'" occupational therapist Diane Day told the Wall Street Journal. School psychologist Mary Sherlach was in a conference with the Sandy Hook Elementary School principal and the mother of a second-grade student when they heard the staccato sounds of automatic gunfire.
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