Claire Stelter

Claire was a force of nature- intelligent, opinionated and strong-minded. Listening to Claire's advice changed by life. Living in Boston in 1991, teaching English, I was debating what to do next. Claire encouraged me to go to Poland for a year to teach English. "Go see how much the country has changed since your time there during communism." To nudge me along (her friend, the Dean of the Russian Department at Warsaw University was looking for English teachers) she offered to pay for my...

So many memories of a wonderful aunt. She would bring us gifts from far off lands and fascinating stories. I thought she was someone very important. Which she was to us, anyway.