Lunn, Jean.

Singer, translator, and editor Jean Williams Lunn was born in 1933 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the daughter of Susan Williams and John Aleck Lunn. She attended private schools in Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, and graduated from Radcliffe College (A.B. 1955). She studied voice at the Mannes College of Music (1955-1956) and gave concerts in Boston, New York, and other cities in the eastern United States (1957-1966). In addition to singing in choirs at King's Chapel (Boston) and Temple Emanuel (Marblehead), she worked as a translator for a number of music publishers. Lunn studied at the Academy of Jewish Studies in Boston and was the first gentile graduate of that program. She taught Hebrew at King's Chapel and at Cape Cod Synagogue (Hyannis, Massachusetts), where she also served as choir director (1973-1978). Lunn also was poetry editor of Sandscript, a Cape Cod literary magazine (1979), and secretary to the board of Senexet Retreat House in Connecticut (1986-1991). In 2004 Lunn converted to Judaism.