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Maude Elsa Gardner – Bibliography
Maude Elsa Gardner as first woman member,
Engineers Club of Dayton, Board of Governors’ Minutes, 7 March 1936.
Chemical engineer and lawyer Gertrude Bucher joined as a junior member in 1929.
Engineers Club of Dayton, Board of Governors’ Minutes, 5 November 1929.
Dayton City Commission Meeting Minutes, Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Maude Elsa Gardner earned distinction as the first women member of Dayton’s engineers club and was an aeronautical engineer who worked at Wright Field from 1936 to 1941.
http://www.cityofdayton.org/cco/Commission%20Agendas/2005/03.16.05%20Minutes.pdf
Zone of the Interior
A Memoir, 1942–1947
Daniel Hoffman
ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-2568-7
Published: 2000
National Personnel Records Center
Civilian Personnel Records
111 Winnebago Street
St. Louis, MO 63118-4126
http://www.archives.gov/st-louis/
The Women of M.I.T., 1871 to 1941: Who They Were, What They Achieved., p. 246
http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/33804
February 1, 1939
February 1, 1939
Thursday, February 2, 1939
The Lowell Sun, Tuesday , September 1, 1942, Lowell, Mass
The Charleroi Mail, Sept. 4, 1942, Charleroi, PA
Rocketeers and Gentlemen Engineers: A History of the AIAA and What Came Before (Reston: AIAAA, 2005)
http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=360&id=1350
Nov 25, 2009 Email
Tom D. Crouch, PhD
Senior Curator, Aeronautics
Smithsonian Institution
Her daughter the engineer: the life of Elsie Gregory MacGill By Richard I. Bourgeois-Doyle
http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/books/books/9780660198132.html
The Women of M.I.T., 1871 to 1941: Who They Were, What They Achieved.
http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/33804
Women in Engineering: Pioneers and Trailblazers
http://www.asce.org/Product.aspx?ID=2147485646
SMITHSONIAN STUDIES IN AIR AND SPACE, NUMBERS 6 & 7
http://www.sil.si.edu/SmithsonianContributions/AirSpace/sc_Browse.cfm?by=filename