[T1S1] birth on Long Island, NY; number of siblings; father's emigration from Baltic Province; her father's education at Columbia University; mother's emigration from Russia; father's degrees from Columbia; siblings lives and professions; her brother Stanley Burnshaw's career in writing and publishing; recollections of childhood; father's employment as superintendent of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society, an orphanage; moving the orphanage to Pleasantville, NY; her religious education; social activities with the orphanage; musical training; education, Hunter College, Merchants and Bankers School in New York.
