WOODARD, NELMATILDA RITCHIE
(*1913)> MUSIC EDUCATOR
WOODARD, NELMATILDA RITCHIE. Music educator (3 November 1913 in Alton, Illinois). Her family moved to Chicago, Illinois, when she was an infant. She began violin study at the age of six and gave her first solo recital when she was twelve. She obtained her musical education in the Chicago public schools, at the Ziegfeld Conservatory of Music in Chicago, at Northwestern University School of Music in Evanston, Illinois (B. Mus., 1936; M. Mus. 1937), and at Loyola University, Chicago Musical…