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American musicologist and meteorologist
E. Ruth Anderson
Born Elsie Ruth Anderson
(1907-06-23 ) June 23, 1907Died November 24, 1989(1989-11-24) (aged 82) Education
New England Conservatory of Music Occupation(s) Musicologist, weather observer, and editor
Elsie Ruth Anderson (23 June 1907,
Newport, Rhode Island – 24 November 1989,
Boston, Massachusetts ) was an American musicologist,
weather observer , and editor.
Biography
Anderson attended the
New England Conservatory of Music 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 .
[1]
During
World War II , Anderson enlisted in the
WAVES and trained at the Navy
Aerographers School at
Lakehurst Maxfield Field ,
New Jersey . She was assigned first to a Naval Air Station in Indiana and then to the
Naval Intelligence Unit in
Washington, D.C. After
World War II , Anderson continued with that unit, including one year in the
United Kingdom .
[2] In 1954, Anderson began working for the
American Meteorological Society in Boston. For 15 years, she served as News Editor of the
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society .
[2] She also wrote a history of the building that houses the
AMS – the
Harrison Gray Otis House at 45
Beacon Street . 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.
[3]
[4]
Published works
1st ed. (1976) (513 pages,
4to );
[6]
OCLC
2035024
2nd ed. (1982);
OCLC
239743664
[7]
References
^
"Commencement Exercises – Candidates for the Diploma" (program notes) ,
New England Conservatory of Music , June 23, 1931
^
a
b
"At AMS headquarters" . Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society . 51 (9): 899. 1970.
Bibcode :
1970BAMS...51..899. .
doi :
10.1175/1520-0477-51.9.899 . Retrieved 2023-01-07 . .
^ "Women and Minorities in History:By Sim David Aberson, PhD (born 1964) (
Meteorologist ,
Hurricane Research Division ,
NOAA's
Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory ,
Miami ) (Aberson, POD1, POD2, POD3; i.e., Laboratory Review Poster, "P," from
AOML's Office of the Director, "OD," February 2000)Re-posted online by
Passport to Knowledge (P2K) (website)
(retrieved April 16, 2011,
via
passporttoknowledge .com )
Website attributed to:
Geoffrey Haines-Stiles (born 1948) (co-founder) Erna A. Akuginow (born 1949), wife of GH-S Brian D. Igelman (born 1957) Eileen Bendixsen (née Morphy; born 1951)
^
Dawsons in the Revolutionary War (and Their Descendants) (Vol. 1 of 2), compiled by Carol Ruth Dawson (née Anderson; 1915–1996),
Eau Claire, Wisconsin : Graphic Printing Co. (1974, 1983; ©1975);
OCLC
608612485
^
The Money Manias: The Eras of Great Speculation in America, 1770–1970 , by
Robert Sobel , Weybright and Talley (1973);
OCLC
802889
^ "Quarterly Book-List," prepared by Carolyn Bryant,
The Musical Quarterly (
Oxford University Press ), Vol. 63, No. 2, April 1977, pg. 290
^ Amazon.
"E. Ruth Anderson" . Amazon . Retrieved 16 April 2011 .