Mrs Carol Goldblatt, 1942 - 2019

Words and photo by alumna and daughter, Lydia Goldbatt (class of 1996)

We are sad to announce that South Hampstead’s former Administrative Assistant Carol Goldblatt passed away on 31st December 2019. Carol was a valued colleague and parent at the school for 15 years.

She first began working at the school volunteering in the library alongside Librarian, Naomi Greenwood. She quickly became indispensable and worked there for many years, before UCS poached them both! She also worked in the modern languages department, utilising her talent for languages to run conversation classes in French and German.

Loving both music and education, Carol was very happy helping out in the music department through the years when her younger daughter participated in Diana Kiverstein and Andrew Parmley’s choirs. She accompanied them on many a choir trip, memorably to the USA in the 1990s when the girls sang at the White House, and at the top of the World Trade Center.

She was fondly known by the girls as Mrs G, and is remembered by staff for her superb organisation of all departments, particularly in the music department. Her daughters, Melanie and Lydia, comment that she has been variously described to them in recent months as outspoken, intelligent, warm, funny, quirky, stoic, elegant, sage, fiercely independent, unflappable, poised, a dear friend, a lady of class and culture, action and knowledge and ‘always, always up for adventure’. She will be greatly missed.