PROCTOR, Alice McElroy
(*1915)> PIANIST · CONDUCTOR · LECTURER · COMPOSER
PROCTOR, Alice McElroy American pianist, conductor, lecturer and composer. Albany, NY, April 18, 1915. She gained her B.A. in 1935 and M.A. in 1936 from Smith College. She was the first woman to gain a Ph.D. in composition from the Eastman School of Music, Rochester University in 1940. She taught the piano, harmony and music history at Southwestern State College Weatherford, OK, from 1939 to 1943 and the piano privately from 1943 to 1978. From 1970 to 1978 she was one of the piano faculty of…