Miriam Goldstein Sommer

Background

Sommer, Miriam Goldstein was born on May 2, 1929 in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Nathan E. and Anna (Ginsberg) Goldstein.

Education

Bachelor, Wells College, 1950. Research certified, London School of Economics, 1953. Master of Science in Art History, Southern Connecticut State University, 1977.

Career

Music department administrator Yale University, 1963-1983. Free-lance travel writer, photographer New Haven, since 1984. Member Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, since 1960.

Member New Haven Arts Council, since 1970, Metropolitan Museum Art/Yale University Art Galleries, Rockport Art Association. Guest lecturer Journalism department, Southern Connecticut State University, 1989-1905. Member Alumna Experiment International Living-World Learning, France, 1950, Brattleboro, Vermont.

Achievements

• Miriam Goldstein Sommer has been listed as a notable writer, photographer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Vice president Decade Alumni Council, Williston Northampton School, Easthampton, Massachusetts, 1989, co-founder, panelist career day. Board member, co-director Association Handicapped Artists, New Haven, 1989. Co-founder Creative Arts Workshop course handicapped artists.

Vice-chairman Cultural Affairs Commission, 2006-2008, City of New Haven, 2001-2009, commissioner. Substitute teacher Worthington Hooker Elementary School, New Haven, Connecticut. Member Society Professional Journalists (Excellence in Journalism First Prize Winner 1991 for best magazine special supplement feature "Designing Woman, Connecticut Magazine), American Society Journalists and Authors, Society Professional Journalists (Excellence in Journalism, 2002, First Place and 2nd Place Magazine Featured Photo awards competition), Rockport Art Association.

Interests

• Pottery, movies, theater, antiques, citizenship.

Connections

Children: Babette, Anne.

Father:

Nathan E. Goldstein

Mother:

Anna (Ginsberg) Goldstein

child:

Anne Sommer

child:

Babette Sommer