Jacqueline Guttman’s entire professional life has been devoted to music education and arts administration. She was a flutist and music teacher who then became a chamber music presenter at Wave Hill, a NYC cultural institution. She founded ArtService Associates, which provided arts organizations with curriculum materials, marketing, strategic planning, proposal writing and evaluation processes. That led to a position as development director for the Thurnauer School of Music at the JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly.

In semi-retirement she turned to writing, co-authoring a critically praised math-art resource book and writing The Partners in Excellence Handbook, published by the National Guild for Community Arts Education. In retirement, she also founded Arts for life NJ, which provided high quality participatory arts programming for active older adults. In addition to Rotary, she now spends her time writing essays, mostly humorous, about living on her own for the first time in her life.

Other volunteer work has included serving as co-president of Temple Emeth in Teaneck, where she directed the choir for 18 years, and as a board member of Jewish Family and Children’s Service, the Englewood Historical Society, Age Friendly Englewood and ArtsBergen. She also has a terrific time coaching our very own Starling Ensemble.

Jackie has a bachelor’s degree in music education from the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam and master’s degrees in music education and arts administration from New York University, where she taught performing arts marketing and served as acting program director.

She and her late husband Howard moved to Englewood in 2001, after 29 years in Teaneck. She has two married sons and three gorgeous grandchildren!