Maddy Simon

Madeline taught in the New York City Board of Education as a choral and band teacher for many years. She graduated from Hunter College and also from the “Hekher Kursn,” the university of the Jewish educational system of the Jewish People’s Fraternal Order. She was one of the conductors of the Jewish Music Alliance and conducted many Yiddish and international folk choruses in New York, New Jersey, and Philadelphia. Maddy has been associated with Camp Kinderland for over 60 years as a counselor, music director, board member, and musical director of many productions. She has taught songs and their meaning to hundreds of children, young adults, and older adults in camp, at meetings, and at JCCs, and has always led people’s voices raised in song at rallies and demonstrations.