Her father owned a factory that produced the vinyl bricks used to make phonograph records; her mother was a homemaker. Ms. Paumgarten attended Westover, an all-girls boarding school in Middlebury, Conn., and graduated in 1968 from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. As a teenager she was a competitive figure skater, and she played in the junior tennis nationals, representing Philadelphia, when she was 13. In 1966, she married Nicholas Biddle Paumgarten, who became an investment banker and later a managing director of J.P. Morgan & Company, and they moved to Manhattan. There, at 27, Ms. Paumgarten took a class at the Alvin Ailey dance school and became smitten with dance.

Source: New York Times October 09, 2020 21:53 UTC