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= Fannie Simon = Fannie Simon (born April 15, 1891) was a philanthropist and librarian. Born in New York City to wealthy parents, Simon supported numerous community and performing arts organizations and causes within New York City with her time and money. Simon had a strong passion for travel and boasted that she had visited 150 countries during her lifetime.

Early Life
Fannie Simon was born in New York City on April 15, 1891, the daughter of Julius and Bertha Gubner Simon. Her father immigrated from Germany in 1885 and was able to make a prosperous living for his family as a clothier. Thus, Fannie Simon grew up in Westchester and on the Upper West Side with live-in servants and horseback riding in Central Park with her brother, Alexander. In 1930, Simon moved to the Murray Hill section of Manhattan where she would live for the next fifty years.

Education
Simon attended Smith College, graduating in 1914. She began working two years after graduation in advertising and then moved into the magazine industry, primarily as an on-staff librarian. In 1932, Simon joined the Special Libraries Association, an organization she remained active in until her death. She was an avid supporter of the Metropolitan Opera Guild and the New York Philharmonic Society, very active in the Metropolitan Republican Club and the Smith College Alumnae Association, and was active in the Church of the Incarnation, and her neighborhood association, the Murray Hill Neighborhood Association. When she retired as the librarian and associate editor of McCall's Magazine in 1959, Simon volunteered much of her time to even more causes. At the time of her death, she was working as the coordinator of a program of conversational English for the English-Speaking Union. Perhaps Simon's greatest passion was world travel, which began when she was a child traveling to Europe with her family.

Death
Shortly before she died, Simon remarked to a friend that she estimated that she had traveled to over 150 countries, often traveling alone as she did at the age of 89 when she took what turned out to be her last trip to Iceland in September 1980. She published a few travel articles but her full-length manuscript, "Following Fannie in a Changing World," remains unpublished.

Simon died in a traffic accident in New York City on October 20, 1980; she was eighty-nine years old.

Feedback from Colleen
Hi Molly,

Great image choices! Isn't that part fun? You paid close attention to how Wikipedia suggests we add captions - that really improves readability and engagement. The introductory paragraph, too, does a good job of succinctly offering the 'significance' of the person's life without being overly redundant with the article. That's hard in a short bio, but it's clear you reviewed the Biography Manual of Style. You handled the citations well - there weren't strict parameters in this exercise and we did talk about it a bit in the Q&A already. I bolded where you scored below in the rubric, and you're welcome to delete my feedback from your sandbox when you're through with it. Great work!

Colleen