Charlotte Temin

Charlotte was born in 1929 to Pauline and Marcel Brucar, grew up in New York City and received both her BA and MS at Hunter College.  She started her career teaching both gifted and then emotionally-challenged children in Spanish Harlem.  She became the guidance counselor at Hunter College High School for gifted girls and taught psychology at Hunter College.  Charlotte then moved to Harvard to get a doctorate in psychology.  She married her husband, Peter, an economist at MIT in 1966, and settled down in Cambridge.  During this time, she was a psychologist at the Cambridge Guidance Center, a psychiatric clinic for children and families.  She started a program at the Guidance Center in 1972 called the Companion Tutoring Program, which paired local college students and young adults with the children in treatment as companion therapists.  She was very proud that this program is still continuing.

Moving from the clinic to private practice as a family psychologist, she also taught family therapy and supervised in the Couples and Family Center of Cambridge Hospital.  Her community activities and interests brought her back to the clinic as board member and then president of the board as it began its transition to the Guidance Center Inc.

Charlotte is survived by her husband, Peter, her two daughters, Elizabeth Temin and Melanie Mendez, and their three grandsons, Colin and Zachary Gibbons and Elijah Mendez. She was an avid reader and inveterate traveler. She and her husband were interested in archaeological ruins in both the old and new worlds; she had a passion for Mayan civilization and would go to Central America at the drop of a hat. Funeral services are private. In lieu of flowers, donations in Charlotte’s memory may be made to American Jewish World Service, 45 W. 36th St, New York, NY 10018.