Claim: Elise Harmon studied in the University of North Texas wherein she was not active in extra curricular activities and where she earned a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry in 1931.
Evidence: In 1931, Harmon earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from University of North Texas. In June 1930, while a student, she was elected president of the W.N. Masters Chemical Society, a student organization she joined as a freshman in 1927, sponsored by Wallace Newton Masters (1864–1943), founder of the Chemistry Department in 1910.