Salisbury was the longtime
headmistress of New York's oldest independent school for girls, the
Convent of the Sacred Heart. In her two decades as headmistress, starting in 1980, she overhauled the school's curriculum, upgraded its facilities and nearly doubled its enrollment. In 1990, the school received a Blue Ribbon Award for Academic Excellence from the
United States Department of Education. She previously taught at Sacred Heart schools in
Grosse Pointe, Michigan and
Greenwich, Connecticut. Salisbury was also vice chairwoman of the board of the
New York State Association of Independent Schools (NYSAIS) and headed its accreditation commission. After retiring in 2000, she was a mentor to her congregation's
novices in
Chicago. She sat on the boards of Sacred Heart schools in
Albany,
Miami, and Greenwich. ==Death==