Memoirs of a Fortunate Life
The Evolution of an Activist

Sarai Zitter was born in 1926 in the Bronx, the daughter of prominent pediatrician Joseph Golomb and his suffragist wife, Rose Sigal Golomb. Educated in public schools, including the High School of Music and Art (where she was its first harpist), she obtained degrees from Wellesley College, University of Michigan and Simmons College School of Social Work.



In addition to her professional career as clinical social worker, Ms. Zitter has been active in liberal social causes throughout her life. As a civil rights worker, she integrated her community of Cedar Grove, NJ. As a reproductive rights activist, she served for twenty years as president of NJ Right to Choose, worked as a pregnancy options volunteer for Planned Parenthood, and spoke in schools, at meetings and before the State legislature.



Ms. Zitter was married for fifty years to the late Samuel Zitter, whom she met, appropriately enough, at a political workshop run by the liberal Americans for Democratic Action. They had three children, ("each of whom", she writes, "is working to build a better world") and three grandchildren. She currently resides in Cabot Park Village, a senior facility in Newton, Massachusetts, where she edits her community's newsmagazine.