Composer and author. She was a writer and producer for WWL in New
Orleans, Louisiana beween 1940 and 1942, then a Women's Army Corps
captain during World War II, Army Special Services in the European
Theatre. She was awarded the Croix de Guerre, the Commendation Medal,
and the UDC War Cross. Beween 1951 and 1953, she was the assistant
director of the Berlitz School in New Orleans, and from 1952 was an
executive of the New Orleans Civil Defense. She joined ASCAP in 1953
and collaborated musically with Jane Douglass.