Sylvia Allison Kaplan

Background

Kaplan, Sylvia Allison was born on August 26, 1917 in Rochester, New York, United States. Daughter of Morris and Esther (Hoffenberg) Garelick.

Education

Degree in teaching, State University of New York, Brockport, 1938; Bachelor of Science summa cum laude, State University of New York, Brockport, 1958.

Career

Teacher public schools, Rochester, New York, 1938-1940; case worker, Department Public Welfare, Rochester, 1940-1941; teacher public schools, Rochester.

Achievements

• Sylvia Allison Kaplan has been listed as a noteworthy elementary school educator, civic worker by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

District director Genesee Valley Parent-Teachers Association, 1958-1960, also New York state chairman for exceptional child, for cultural arts, chairman convention management, chairman various Parent-Teachers Association organizations, 1955-1958. Vice president Women's Human Relations Council. Chairman Rochester-Monroe County Youth Bureau, 1974-1976, Brighton (New York ) Youth Bureau, 1962-1973.

Delegate Governor's Conference on Children and Youth, 1969. Member White House Conference on Children and Youth, 1970, Governor Rockefeller's Advisory Council on Children and Work, 1976. New York state delegate White House Conference on Children and Youth, 1970.

Board directors, chairman drug committee Monroe County Citizens Planning Council, 1967-1968. Chairman town management study committee Town of Brighton, 1976. Executive committee United Way Greater Rochester, 1976-1979.

Board governors Rossmoor Scholarship Foundation, since 1989, vice president, president-elect, 1992, president, 1993, 94. Member American Association of University Women (advisory committee endless fund co-chair scholar committee Walnut Creek branch 1988-1989), League of Women Voters, Parent-Teachers Association (honorary life), Planned Parenthood, Rotary.

Connections

Married Ralph Allison, December 25, 1940 (deceased 1956). Children: James, Stephen. Married Burton Kaplan, December 20, 1957 (deceased 1983).

Father:

Morris Garelick

Mother:

Esther (Hoffenberg) Garelick

Spouse:

Ralph Allison

Spouse:

Burton Kaplan

child:

Stephen Kaplan

child:

James Kaplan