[1] In 1920, she graduated from the Horace Mann School after which she attended Wellesley College but left after one year to marry investment banker Richard Jaques Bernhard in 1923.
[1] She served on the board of the Citizen's Committee for Children of New York City for twenty years.
She served as chairwoman of the Hunter College School of Social Work Advisory Committee.
[1] She was also a strong supporter of Jewish organizations serving as a trustee of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, as vice president of the Jewish Child Care Association from 1940 to 1942, as a board member of the New York Association for New Americans, as an honorary vice president of the Associated YWHA of Greater New York, and as a member of the publications committee of Commentary magazine.
[1] Her husband was an investment banker at Wertheim & Co.[3] Her son William married Catherine Cahill, daughter of attorney John T. Cahill and Grace Pickens[4] who was one of the Pickens Sisters, a trio born on a Georgia plantation that reached national stardom in the 1930s with its own radio show, concert tours and records.