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s not listed above: 1932 Regular accessibility. Amer. Math. Monthly 39:509 #7. Presented to the MAA, College Park, MD, 7 May 1932. 1933 On mapping with functions of finite sections. Amer. Math. Monthly 40:189–90 #1. Presented to the MAA, Baltimore, MD, 3 Dec 1932. Presentation not listed above: Elasticity of demand for rail passenger travel. Presented to a meeting of the Pacific Coast Econ. Assoc., Palo Alto, CA, 27–28 Dec 1940. References to: AmMSc 6–8, 9S–11S; AmMWSc 12S–13S; AmWom 1935–40; InWom SUP; WhAm 13; WhoAmW 1–8, 10–17; WhoE 22; WhoGov 1; WhoWor 9–10. “Army Calls 9,565 More Officers; Chaplains, Aviation Men Summoned.” New York Times, 19 Sep 1950. “ ‘Queen Bea’ of Her Profession.” Goucher Alumnae Quarterly, Summer 1952, 16. “Awards Go to Six as Career Women.” New York Times, 13 Feb 1961. “She Keeps the Mails Moving.” Washington Post, 19 Feb 1961. “6 Career Women in Government Get First Civil-Service Awards.” New York Times, 25 Feb 1961. “10 Winners Named for Service Award.” New York Times, 22 Mar 1970. “Waste-Watcher.” Forbes, 1 Jul 1970. “Depression Era Alumna Recalls Lengthy Career.” Casement , Alumni Newsletter for the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon, Spring 1995: 6. Pearson, Richard. “Retired Postal Official Beatrice Aitchison Dies.” Washington Post , 29 Sep 1997. Related manuscript materials: Beatrice Aitchison Papers, 1943–1956. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. Beatrice Aitchison Papers, 1946–1970. University of Oregon Libraries. Unpublished interview: Aitchison, Beatrice. Interview by Myra Cherkasky, 11 April 1984, Washington, DC. Oral History Project 10: Dupont Circle “Slices of the Pie,” Oral History Research Center, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, District of Columbia Public Library. Transcript. Other sources: MA thesis vita 1931; PhD dissertation vita 1933; Owens questionnaire 1940; Smithsonian questionnaire 1981; Smithsonian meeting tapes 1981; Johns Hopkins University Archives; Society of Actuaries Library; Cockey, “Mathematics at Goucher”; NatCAB 47 (Aitchison, Clyde Bruce); WhAm 4 (Aitchison, Clyde Bruce); US Census 1910 OR, 1920, 1930 DC; SSDI. Last modified: January 8, 2016. ALDEN, Marjorie (Leffler). August 29, 1909–October 5, 2000. Miami University (BA 1930), Ohio State University (MA 1932, PhD 1934). Marjorie Leffler was born in Kyle, Ohio, the eldest of four children of Stella Eugenia (Durbin) and William Homer Leffler. Her parents were both born in Ohio, in 1882 and 1876, respectively, and married in about 1907. In 1910 the Lefflers were living with Marjorie’s maternal grandparents, and William Leffler’s occupation was described as commercial traveler. In 1920 there were four children: Marjorie; two brothers, Homer (1913–1977) and Norman (1916–1997); and a sister, Ruth (1918– 2006). The family farmed their own land in Butler County, Ohio. Marjorie Leffler received her primary education in the local township school and her secondary education in the high school of Hamilton, Ohio. In 1930 she graduated from Miami University in neighboring Oxford, Ohio, magna cum laude, with honors in mathematics and with general honors. As an undergraduate Leffler was involved in many activities. These included several sports (hockey, soccer, baseball, and track); classical club; debate; Alethenai, a national literary society; student-faculty council; disciplinary board; and the year book. She was elected to the honor societies Phi Beta Kappa, Kappa Delta Pi (education), Tau Kappa Alpha (journalism), and to Mortar Board. All of Leffler’s graduate work was done at Ohio State University in Columbus. In 1931 she was awarded a university scholarship in mathematics, which she held for two years. She earned a master’s degree in 1932; the following year she was an assistant in the university high school while continuing her work for the PhD. She also was treasurer of the local chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon that year. Both her master’s thesis and her doctoral dissertation were in analysis and were directed by Tibor Radó. After completing her work at Ohio State in 1934, Leffler took a position as tutor and instructor at Mills College in California for 1934–35. On December 20, 1934, Marjorie Leffler married Howard Holston Alden (1908–1998), also of Ohio. He had received a BS from Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1930 and an MA in 1931 and a PhD in 1933 in mathematics from Ohio State. In July 1933, he was looking for jobs; one inquiry was to the president of the University of Saskatchewan in which he indicated that he was seeking a permanent position in Canada and that he had had four years of teaching experience at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and at Ohio State. Marjorie Leffler Alden’s subsequent academic positions were at the same institutions as her husband’s, but at lower ranks. Howard H. Alden was head of the mathematics department at New Mexico Military Institute, a junior college in Roswell, from 1934 to 1943; was associate professor at the University of Wyoming 1945–46; and returned to Ohio State University as assistant professor in 1946. He was also involved with jet propulsion research during World War II and was a chief engineer working under Robert H. Goddard 1942–45. During this period, Marjorie L. Alden was an instructor at New Mexico Military Institute 1936–43, instructor at the University of Wyoming 1945–46, and instructor at Ohio State starting in 1946. Howard Holston Alden was promoted to associate professor at Ohio State in 1948, while Marjorie Leffler Alden remained as instructor. Both resigned from the university in June 1956, after which it appears they left Columbus. Book Web Page ALDEN 2 Marjorie Leffler Alden did not publish her thesis or her dissertation. However, G. E. Albert, a 1938 PhD from the University of Wisconsin who was then at Ohio State, used a proof that appeared in her master’s thesis in a 1943 paper, “The closure systems of orthogonal functions,” in the Monthly. This paper appeared before the Aldens returned to Ohio State. The Aldens lived for a time in Mesa, Arizona, before moving to California. For several years in the 1980s and 1990s they lived in a retirement home in La Mesa, California. Howard Alden died March 1, 1998, at eighty-nine. After an illness of more than a decade, Marjorie Alden died of cardiorespiratory arrest in Grossmont Hospital in La Mesa at age ninety-one in 2000. Her ashes were scattered at sea. Organizational affiliations: Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Mu Epsilon. Thesis and dissertation: 1932 [Leffler, M.] Some elementary aspects of Fourier series. MA thesis, Ohio State University, directed by Tibor Radó. Typescript. 1934 [Leffler, M.] A lemma in potential theory. PhD dissertation, Ohio State University, directed by Tibor Radó. Typescript. Microfilm: 1952. Abstract: Abstracts of Doctoral Dissertations. [Graduate School, Ohio State University] 16:86–96. See also 1933. Abstract not listed above: 1933 [Leffler, M.] A lemma in potential theory. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 39:876 #322. Presented to a meeting of the AMS, Cincinnati, OH, 1–2 Dec 1933.not listed above: 1933 [Leffler, M.] A lemma in potential theory. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 39:876 #322. Presented to a meeting of the AMS, Cincinnati, OH, 1–2 Dec 1933. References to: AmMSc 6–7. Other sources: PhD dissertation vita 1934; communication with Barbara Flory, niece of Marjorie Alden; Miami University Archives; Ohio State University Archives; University of Saskatchewan Archives; US Census 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930 OH; California death certificate; SSDI. Last modified: July 19, 2009. ALLEN, Bess (Eversull). May 18, 1899–March 18, 1978. University of Cincinnati (BA 1921, MA 1922, PhD 1924). Bess Marie Eversull was born in Elmwood Place, a village adjacent to Cincinnati, Ohio, the first of two daughters of Olive (Magrew) (1872–1954) and Warner Solomon Eversull (1865–1944), both of Ohio. Her parents had married in 1896, and the younger daughter, Edna (1901–1955), was born two years after Bess. Warner Eversull was principal and later superintendent of a public school in the area. Bess Eversull attended Woodward High School in Cincinnati before enrolling at the University of Cincinnati where she received all of her formal postsecondary education. She held a Washburn scholarship the first two years of her undergraduate work and graduated in 1921 with a combined major in mathematics and English and a minor in French. Eversull continued her studies at Cincinnati until she completed the work for her doctorate with a minor in physics. She was a Baldwin fellow 1921–23, a Taft fellow 1924, and assisted and taught intermittently. Both her 1922 master’s thesis and her 1924 doctoral dissertation examined triple Fourier series, and each was published the year she received the degree. She was the first doctoral student of Charles N. Moore and was the third person and the first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics at Cincinnati. Bess Eversull was an instructor at Smith College 1924–27. In October 1927 she married Charles Easton Allen (1899–1975), and within a year they were living in Detroit, where by 1930 Charles Allen was a civil engineer working as a building inspector for the City of Detroit. Nearly twenty years after her marriage Allen indicated in a job application that she had no children and that she had done only volunteer work, mostly non-mathematical, since her marriage, except during the war. She worked as a mathematician for the Jam Handy Organization, which made films for the armed services, from May 1942 until August 1943. Her volunteer activities consisted of settlement work, YWCA board work, tutoring high school and college students, and tutoring at the veterans’ hospital; in 1945 she taught in the New Boston, Texas, high school as a substitute for two months. In February 1947 Allen resumed her professional work by taking a position as a regular substitute instructor at Wayne University (now Wayne State University) in Detroit. She continued there as