In addition to performing as a soloist, Chertock serves as principal keyboardist of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and has been a professor of piano at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
“I was on my way to the Big Y, and stopped at the crosswalk for you to walk across. I saw your wallet drop out. And I said to myself, ‘I can’t not say anything. It’s a person’s life.’ ”
— Betsy Halla
After earning her master’s degree in home economics from Simmons College in Boston in 1952, Mae moved to Lenox where she began her 22-year career as a home economics teacher, retiring from the Lenox School District in 1974.
