ABSTRACT
There is not a great deal in the public record concerning the life of Miriam Goldberg. What I was able to discover comes from a New York Times obituary (Miriam Goldberg, 1996); a letter to the faculty from Karen Zumwalt (1996), who was then the Dean of Teachers College, announcing Professor Goldberg’s death; and, ironically, an “In Memoriam” piece I wrote for the Gifted Child Quarterly (Borland, 1997), some of the details of which I had shamefully forgotten. I also found unpublished material about Miriam Goldberg, her colleagues, and the Talented Youth Project in the archives of the Gottesman Libraries at Teachers College. 1
Miriam Levin was born in 1916 in Baku, Azerbaijan, which was then in Czarist Russia. When she was fi ve years old, she and her family immigrated to the United States, living fi rst in Harlem and then in the Bronx. Miriam was educated in Ethical Culture Schools and graduated with a high school diploma from the Fieldston School, an independent school associated with the New York Society for Ethical Culture. In 1936, she received her teaching diploma from the Ethical Culture Teacher Education Department.
