I have many memories, both glorious and terrible and feel heavily influenced by my time at Hunter High.

Here is a memory of which I am fond: In Ms. Monkmeyer's English class, we were all discussing A Separate Peace. The class was sitting around a conference table while Ms. Monkmeyer was at the blackboard in front of the short part of the rectangular table. I was sitting at the table in front of her with my back to her . She said something in her usual smart and somewhat snarky way about the book and I said, quoting from the book "Sarcasm is the weapon of the weak." The next thing I knew she brought the book down on my head in a light whack! I didn't see it coming, but delighted in her pedagogical style and affectionate, quick response!

Another of my favorites is when we were in cooking class or home economics, I don't remember what the class was called. The teacher was wiping the top of the stove with a sponge. She said "Notice how the enamel cracks if you wipe a hot stove with a wet cloth." I thought at the time, this is home ec for girls more interested in science!

Married to a wonderful guy, Dick Fulmer, who is a clinical psychologist, whom I met in 1973. Dick can still make me laugh, and we love to go dancing together. We have studied tango now for nearly a decade, and we actually might have advanced a tiny bit beyond beginners! We have two great sons, one of whom has a doctorate in his passion -- animal behavior and comparative psychology, and the other is getting his doctorate in consumer behavior, which he loves. I have been the Director of the Psychodynamic Track at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University, teaching there for 35 years, and am just recently the founding director of the Couples Therapy Program at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychoanalysis. Yes, though we have traveled a lot I am still a provincial New Yorker!
Yours, Shelly