Born Anna Marie Sherry in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, in 1929, she was the sixth of nine children and known as “Nancy.” During the depths of the Great Depression, her family moved often in search of work before eventually settling in Brooklyn.
She graduated from Hunter College and worked summer jobs in Manhattan, including as an assistant for the prominent interior designer, Dorothy Draper. She used the winnings from a radio game show to attend summer classes in Switzerland, where she developed a taste for travel and met teachers who were working for the U.S. Army Dependent Schools.
What followed was an audacious four months of travel for two single women at the time. From Tokyo, they traveled through Hong Kong, Thailand, Burma, India and into Nepal, at a time when the tourist industry barely existed in many of these countries. They booked passage on a freighter to Kenya, made their way to Cape Town, South Africa, and took another ship took to Santos, Brazil, for stops in Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Macho Picho, Panama and Miami.
The couple settled in New Jersey, where he taught physics for Rutgers University and she became an educational psychologist for Princeton Regional Schools. Their three sons came in such quick succession, they called them Irish triplets. In the 1980s and 1990s, Nancy began lecturing and writing, publishing an education column for the Princeton Packet and articles in the, New Jersey’s largest newspaper, publishing over 700 “Education and Parenting” columns, and gained a national audience and a great deal of fan mail after her column was syndicated by Newhouse News Service. Her articles continue to be available atand many were excerpted in the books she published on education.
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