Career
She was the first woman Chancellor of the University of Western Ontario from 1992 to 1996. A pioneer in Canadian mental health, she helped establish the Hincks Treatment Centre for adolescents, the Gerstein Crisis Centre for psychiatric patients and initiated Mental Health Week. After attending Fern Avenue Public School and Parkdale Collegiate Institute, Gerstein received a Bachelor of Arts degree (1938), a Master of Arts degree (1939), and a Doctor of Philosophy (1945) from the University of Toronto.
Reva Appleby married Bertrand Gerstein on 5 June 1939 at Toronto"s Holy Blossom Temple.
The couple had two sons, Irving Russell (since 1941) and Ira Michael (since 1947). In the fall of 1979, she remarried to David Raitblat, a Toronto Symphony Orchestra board member at the time and previously a construction company owner.
