E. Ruth Anderson
Elsie Ruth Anderson (23 June 1907, Newport, Rhode Island – 24 November 1989, Boston, Massachusetts) was an American musicologist, meteorologist, and editor. 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. 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, and worked in the United Kingdom. In 1952, Anderson began working for the American Meteorological Society in Boston. For 20 years, she served as News Editor of the "Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society". 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