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Ethel Grodzins Romm was born on 3 March, 1925 in United States, is an American author, journalist, and engineer (1925–2021). Discover Ethel Grodzins Romm's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 96 years old?

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1925

Ethel Grodzins Romm (March 3, 1925 – November 9, 2021) was an American author, journalist, project manager and environmental technology company CEO.

She also served as Co-Chair of the Lyceum Society of the New York Academy of Sciences.

1926

She then married newspaper reporter Al Romm (1926–1999) and moved, in 1957, to Middletown, New York, where her husband became the first editor of the Times Herald-Record newspaper and later vice president for news of Ottaway Newspapers.

The couple had three sons, David, the host and producer of Shockwave Radio Theater on KFAI-FM; Daniel, a physician; and Joseph, a writer, physicist and climate expert.

While in Middletown, over the next 25 years, Romm became an author, journalist and interior and construction designer and lectured on those subjects at Orange County Community College.

1942

Romm graduated from high school in 1942 and trained as a mechanical engineering draftsman.

She worked for the U.S. Air Force for the rest of World War II, becoming a project supervisor.

For a decade after the war, at an engineering firm, she led crews that designed power transformers for General Electric.

She grew up in Manchester, New Hampshire, and graduated from Manchester Central High School in 1942.

Her brother is physicist Lee Grodzins, and her sister was librarian and library science expert Anne Grodzins Lipow.

Upon graduating from high school, Romm was trained as a mechanical engineering draftsman at Bausch Machine Tool Company in Massachusetts.

With many men away from home serving in World War II, she was quickly hired by the U.S. Air Force at Westover Air Force Base in Massachusetts as a civilian draftsman, where she stayed for the rest of the war, becoming a project supervisor and head of the drafting department.

1946

After the war, she worked for Associate Engineers, Inc., in Agawam, Massachusetts, from 1946 to 1954, where she headed crews that designed power transformers for General Electric.

1950

In the 1950s she married and started a family, while beginning to write books and articles and to teach interior and construction design.

1960

In 1960, she won her third Dorothy Dawes Awards for excellence in home furnishings reporting.

Romm had articles published in Editor & Publisher, the ABA Journal, Esquire, New York Magazine and Huffington Post among others.

Among other topics, she wrote about '60s counterculture and the underground press, writing and editing style, Education and the intersection of engineering and gender equality.

1972

Romm gained additional notice for an incident at the White House, in 1972, where she and her husband had been invited as part of a gathering of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

The Secret Service became aware that she had a reputation for speaking her mind and was opposed to the war in Vietnam.

While the couple was waiting in the reception line to meet President Richard Nixon, a Secret Service Agent asked Romm her intentions regarding any statements that she might make to the president.

He told her that he was concerned "about the president's time".

Romm and her husband left without meeting the president and later received an apology from the White House, saying that it was not White House policy to question writers and editors waiting to meet the president.

1980

In the 1980s, she became a project, construction and building manager for Hartz Mountain Industries and then was President and Chief Executive Officer of Niton Corporation, an environmental science company, from 1988 to 1997.

1984

Romm was a project, construction and building manager for Hartz Mountain Industries in New York City from 1984 to 1988.

1988

She then was President, Chief Executive Officer of Niton Corporation, in Bedford, Massachusetts, from 1988 to 1997, which designed and built lead and radon detectors, portable X-ray analyzers and other environmental science equipment patented by her brother Lee.

2001

She was Co-Chair of the Lyceum Society from 2001 to 2016.

Romm was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the daughter of David Melvin Grodzins and his wife Taube Grodzins, Jewish emigrants, with roots in Poland and Grodno, Belarus.

She was Co-Chair of the Lyceum Society of the New York Academy of Sciences from 2001 to 2016.

She was also a member of the Roosevelt Island Resident Association Common Council.

2016

In 2016, Workmen's Circle devoted its annual winter benefit to a celebration of her life and work.

Romm died from Alzheimer's disease in Washington, D.C., on November 9, 2021, at the age of 96.