Early Years
Wolf was born to a Jewish family in 1933 in Vienna, Austria. Her parents, Frederick (Fritz) and Renee Koerner, fled Nazi persecution in 1938, bringing the family to Brighton, Massachusetts.
The first school that Wolf attended was the Baldwin Early Learning Center, which is still running in Brighton, Massachusetts.
She attended high school at Boston Girl’s Latin School, now Boston Latin Academy. She graduated from Simmons College (Massachusetts) in 1955 with a degree in Experimental Psychology. In the same year she and her husband, Robert Wolf were married. The Wolfs settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts where they raised a family. She later earned a Masters Degree in Public Administration at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
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