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Evelyn Lerman
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 ...view moreAfter 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.view less
Books by Evelyn Lerman
A Dressmaker’S Threads: The Life and the Legacy of My Russian Immigrant Mother