Roberta Handel

Roberta Faxstein Handel was graduated, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from the Syracuse University’s Schools of Liberal Arts (Sociology) and Journalism. She was a member of the student advisory committee to the Dean, of Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority and of the Jewish Student Fellowship.

She completed post-graduate work in the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration in 1956.

Roberta was a program coordinator and administrator at the School of Medicine, State University of New York at Buffalo in the departments of Epidemiology, Community Psychiatry and in the Medical School. She has taught at the New York State University at Buffalo’s Department of Continuing Education and in the Community Education Program of the Williamsville, New York Central School District.

She worked as an advisor to and as an occasional participant on “Mind Over Myth”, a local public service program broadcast monthly for fifteen years on ABC television. The viewing audience included western New York and nearby Canada.

During her nineteen year winter residence in Delray Beach, Florida she was a member of the faculty of the Institute for Learning in Retirement in Boca Raton, Florida. She also conducted writing workshops for the Delray Beach Public Library and was a writing instructor in the Century Village community in Boca Raton. During the summer months she taught at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo, Inc.

Community activities have included: Presidency of The Radcliffe Club of Western New York and of the Friends of the Buffalo Psychiatric Center. Board of Directors and Secretary of the Harvard-Radcliffe Club of Western New York, member of the Harvard Club of the Palm Beaches and Phi Beta Kappa, Board Member and Secretary of the Mental Health Association of Erie County, Trustee of Temple Beth Zion, Board of Directors of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo, Board Member of the Amherst Symphony Orchestra, the American Jewish Committee and Jewish Family Service. She is was a member of the Harvard Club of the Palm Beaches and of the Phi Beta Kappa Association of Palm Beach County. She was a volunteer at the Delray Beach Public Library for many years and is a lifelong member of Temple Beth Zion. She is Secretary of Phi Beta Kappa of Western New York and a member of the Board of Directors of The Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo. She has conducted writing class for the Bureau of Jewish Edu