Helen’s first recollections are from when she was five years old.  Her family moved from the South End of Boston to Dorchester, where her father founded an Orthodox synagogue and opened a tailoring business.  She talks about her experiences at the Oliver Wendell Holmes School and Dorchester High School.  She graduated with honors before attending Boston University School of Accounting and Secretarial School at night.  During the Great Depression, Helen found work as a bookkeeper for a clothing company.  She also joined the choir of the Mishkan Tefilla and was a member for fourteen years.  Through this involvement, Helen met Leonard Bernstein.  When Helen met her husband, Morey, she joined his synagogue, Temple Israel, and became active in Temple Sisterhood and B’nai B’rith.  She also became the treasurer of the Boston Youth Aliyah Movement and was a lifetime member of Hadassah.  Helen looks back on the early years of her marriage, learning to cook, and raising her children in the Jewish tradition.  Helen discusses her love and pursuit of music and her studies at the New England Conservatory.  Finally, Helen reflects on her family life, her children and grandchildren’s lives, and her joy of singing and music.