After graduating Simmons College (B.S. Journalism, 1947), I became a wife and mother. When I told my family I was going back to school and then to work, they cheered.
Harvard University provided ...visualizza altroAfter graduating Simmons College (B.S. Journalism, 1947), I became a wife and mother. When I told my family I was going back to school and then to work, they cheered.
Harvard University provided the program (M.S. Ed., 1966) and the Brookline MA Public Schools provided the jobs: teacher of grade 3-8, sabbatical at Harvard (C.A.S, Language Development and Human Development, 1976), then Vice Principal, Director of English, and Director of Personnel. Summers, my husband and I directed Camp Caribou for Boys in Maine.
At age 67 we retired to Sarasota, Florida for intellectual stimulation and just plain fun. In a writing course with a gifted teacher I discovered an interest in teen sex, too early pregnancy, and the lack of sex education in our schools. Interviewing, research and travel culminated in two books: “Teen Moms: the Pain and the Promise”, Morning Glory Press, CA, 1997, and “Safer Sex: the New Morality”, MGP, 2000. The research proved that education and mentoring made the difference for troubled teens, so I initiated a right-brain reading program which ten of my professional friends/colleagues and I have been teaching for eighteen years.
This book is about my Russian immigrant Mother, my first mentor, whose love for education motivated her to work 18-hour days at her sewing machine to put my two sisters and me through college. Her story, and the ripples she created over and through the generations, demanded telling.visualizza meno