Elsie Ruth Anderson (23 June 1907,
Newport, Rhode Island
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– 24 November 1989,
Boston, Massachusetts) was an American musicologist,
weather observer, and editor.
Biography
Anderson attended the
New England Conservatory of Music
The New England Conservatory of Music (NEC) is a private music school in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the oldest independent music conservatory in the United States and among the most prestigious in the world. The conservatory is located on H ...
from 1924 to 1931, again in 1934, and again from 1940 to 1941. On June 23, 1931, Anderson received a Diploma in Orchestra with a concentration in Violin from the
New England Conservatory of Music
The New England Conservatory of Music (NEC) is a private music school in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the oldest independent music conservatory in the United States and among the most prestigious in the world. The conservatory is located on H ...
.
During
World War II
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, Anderson enlisted in the
WAVES
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*Waves, oscillations accompanied by a transfer of energy that travel through space or mass.
*Wind waves, surface waves that occur on the free surface of bodies of water.
Waves may also refer to:
Music
*Waves (band) ...
and trained at the Navy
Aerographers School at
Lakehurst Maxfield Field,
New Jersey
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. She was assigned first to a Naval Air Station in Indiana and then to the
Naval Intelligence Unit in
Washington, D.C.
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After
World War II
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, Anderson continued with that unit, including one year in the
United Kingdom
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.
[ In 1954, Anderson began working for the ]American Meteorological Society
The American Meteorological Society (AMS) is the premier scientific and professional organization in the United States promoting and disseminating information about the atmospheric, oceanic, and hydrologic sciences. Its mission is to advance th ...
in Boston. For 15 years, she served as News Editor of the ''Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
The ''Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society'' is a scientific journal published by the American Meteorological Society. ''BAMS'' is the flagship magazine of AMS and publishes peer reviewed articles of interest and significance for the w ...
''.[.] She also wrote a history of the building that houses the AMS – the Harrison Gray Otis House
There are three houses named the Harrison Gray Otis House in Boston, Massachusetts. All were built by noted American architect Charles Bulfinch for the same man, Federalist lawyer and politician Harrison Gray Otis.
First Harrison Gray Otis House
...
at 45 Beacon Street
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. While working for the AMS, she compiled and wrote the ''Contemporary American Composers: A Biographical Dictionary,'' published in 1977, with a follow-up edition in 1982.
Published works
* ''Contemporary American Composers: A Biographical Dictionary'', G K Hall & Co. (G.K. Hall was acquired by ITT in September 1969
The Money Manias: The Eras of Great Speculation in America, 1770–1970
by Robert Sobel, Weybright and Talley (1973); and sold to Macmillan Publishing
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in 1985; it is now an imprint of Thomson Gale
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The company, formerly known as Gale Research and the Gale G ...
)
:: 1st ed. (1976) (513 pages, 4to
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);
:: 2nd ed. (1982);
References
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1907 births
1989 deaths
American book editors
New England Conservatory alumni
20th-century American women scientists
20th-century American scientists
United States Navy sailors
WAVES personnel