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Location	Oakland, California, United States
Introduction	Annemarie Bondy Roeper, co-founder of The Roeper School, died May 11, 2012 in Oakland, California. She was 93. Her mother, Gertrud Bondy, was a medical doctor and psychoanalyst. She and her husband, Max Bondy, founded a series of schools in Germany based on a psychoanalytic understanding of human development. When the Nazi Party ascended to power, the Bondys emigrated to the U.S. where Annemarie and her husband, George, began what later became The Roeper School. Early civil rights activists, they integrated the student body in 1955. The school became the second elementary school in the country to focus exclusively on gifted education. In 1965, in another ground-breaking endeavor, Annemarie was a consultant on the development of 'Sesame Street'. A pioneer in the emerging gifted education community, she retired from Roeper School in 1980 and began a consultation practice, receiving the President’s Award from the NAGC in 1989 for a lifetime of distinguished service to the field. She is survived by a brother, three children, three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. For more information, please visit www.roeper.org.

Location

Oakland, California, United States

Introduction

Annemarie Bondy Roeper, co-founder of The Roeper School, died May 11, 2012 in Oakland, California. She was 93. Her mother, Gertrud Bondy, was a medical doctor and psychoanalyst. She and her husband, Max Bondy, founded a series of schools in Germany based on a psychoanalytic understanding of human development. When the Nazi Party ascended to power, the Bondys emigrated to the U.S. where Annemarie and her husband, George, began what later became The Roeper School. Early civil rights activists, they integrated the student body in 1955. The school became the second elementary school in the country to focus exclusively on gifted education. In 1965, in another ground-breaking endeavor, Annemarie was a consultant on the development of 'Sesame Street'. A pioneer in the emerging gifted education community, she retired from Roeper School in 1980 and began a consultation practice, receiving the President’s Award from the NAGC in 1989 for a lifetime of distinguished service to the field. She is survived by a brother, three children, three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. For more information, please visit www.roeper.org.