Norma Bernice Simon

Background

Simon, Norma Bernice was born on December 24, 1927 in New York, United States. Daughter of Nathan Philip and Winnie Bertha (Lepselter) Feldstein.

Education

Bachelor, Brklyn. College, 1947; Master of Science in Education, Bank St College, New York, 1968.

Career

Founder, director, teacher, Community Cooperative Nusery School,, Rowayton, Connecticut, 1953-1954; teacher, Norwalk (Connecticut) Public School, 1962-1963; consultant, Stamford (Connecticut) Pre-School Program, 1965-1969; special teacher, Mid-Fairfield Child Guidance Center, Norwalk, Connecticut consultant, MacMillan Public County, New York, 1968-1970; consultant, Davidson Films, 1969-1974; consultant, Bank St College of Education, New York, 1967-1974; consultant, Aesop Films, San Francisco, 1975-1979; consultant, Fisher-Price Toys, East Aurora, New York, 1978. Consultant Dancer-Fitzgerald-Sample, Inc., New York City, l969-79. Included in deGrummond Collection, University of Southern Mississippi, Kerlan Collection, University of Michigan.

Achievements

• Norma Bernice Simon has been listed as a notable author by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Wet World

    (A rhythmic text and atmospheric illustrations evoke the s...)

  • The Saddest Time

    (Norma Simon offers three stories to help children talk ab...)

  • The Saddest Time (A Concept Book)

    (Explains death as the inevitable end of life and provides...)

  • I Am Not a Crybaby

    (Children describe a variety of situations that make them ...)

  • I Wish I Had My Father

    (Father's Day is tough for a boy whose father left him yea...)

  • The Saddest Time by Simon, Norma (1986) Paperback

    (Reprint)

  • I Wish I Had My Father by Norma Simon (1987-09-05)
  • I Wish I Had My Father by Norma Simon (1987-09-03)
  • (The Saddest Time ) Author: Norma Simon Sep-1999
  • The Saddest Time by Norma Simon (1986-01-01)

Membership

President Westport Cooperative Nursery School Board, l957-58. Member town committee Mid-Fairfield Child Guidance. Member Oak Hill Cooperative Nursery School Board, l958-59.

Volunteer pre-school committee program Nathaniel Ely School, Norwalk, l963-64. Program chairman Princess Anne Elementary School Home-School Association, Riverside, Ontario, Canada, l959-60. Member Wellfleet Elementary School Committee, l974-79, member building committee, l979-96.

Volunteer Wellfleet Elementary School, since 1970. Board of trustees Wellfleet History Society, since 1995. Member Author's Guild, Bank Street College Education Alumni Association, Delta KappaGamma.

Interests

• Avocations: reading, fishing, gardening, knitting, cooking.

Connections

Married Gerald Fromberg, June 6, 1948 (divorced 1949). Married Edward Simon, June 7, 1951. Children: Stephanie, Wendy (deceased), Jonathan.

Father:

Nathan Philip Feldstein

Mother:

Winnie Bertha (Lepselter) Feldstein

Spouse:

Edward Simon

Spouse:

Gerald Fromberg

child:

Stephanie Simon

child:

Wendy Simon (deceased)

child:

Jonathan Simon