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Evelyne Karim
American
American, (1920–2011)
The daughter of a French notaire, Evelyne Karim was one the first European teachers to be trained in Montessori method. As a young teacher in German-occupied France, she helped resettle Jewish orphans separated from parents sent to concentration camps. She later taught French to American soldiers stationed in France. In 1947, Evelyne traveled to the U.S., where she landed a job teaching Montessori at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. There, she met and married Alexander Karim, an engineer and recent immigrant from Iran. After their first son was born, they moved to California, settling in Berkeley then Walnut Creek. Karim was a longtime member of the Clay Arts Guild, where she had enrolled in the first studio class ever offered.


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