ELIZABETH C. SCANLAN

Scanlan, Elizabeth C. Elizabeth Grace Collette Scanlan, Beth to all her friends, died peacefully in Cambridge Mass. on Sunday, February 2nd, 2014, two weeks short of her 99th birthday. She was predeceased by her husband, Robert H. Scanlan, who died in 2001, and to whom she was married for 62 years. Beth was born in DeKalb, Illinois on February 15th, 1915. She graduated from Grinnell College, Iowa in 1936, and received her Master's degree from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Western Reserve University in 1939. While in Cleveland, she became a founding member of the Cleveland Women's Orchestra, playing double bass, and served as its first president. She married Robert H. Scanlan in 1939 in Chicago, and then moved to Boston where she worked as a Visiting Public Health nurse throughout the Greater Boston area, while her husband pursued his PhD at MIT. Beth was an active faculty wife, following her husband's academic career to Princeton University, and later Johns Hopkins University, where she participated in her husband's research and helped edit his extensive publications. After her husband died, Beth moved back to Boston, and became an ardent fan of the Boston Baroque, whose concerts she attended regularly for the past 12 years. She urged that donations, in lieu of flowers, be made in her name to Boston Baroque. Elizabeth Scanlan is survived by her four children, their spouses, and eight grandchildren. Kate Budlong, of Manhattan Beach, CA (children Paul Thomas and Liz Lowengrub); Jean Sachs of Rockaway, New Jersey (husband Klaus, and sons Rob and Peter Sachs); Robert Scanlan of Belmont, MA (wife Joanne Baldine and son Robert Scanlan); and Glenn Scanlan of Collinsville, CT (wife Audrey and children Emma, William, and Harriet Scanlan). Elizabeth C. and Robert H. Scanlan's ashes will be buried together in Mt Auburn's Cemetery in Cambridge MA in a private ceremony. A public memorial service for them both will be held later in the spring.