Elaine Murray Stone

Background

Stone, Elaine Murray was born on January 22, 1922 in New York City. Daughter of H. and Catherine Fairbanks Murray-Jacoby.

Education

Student, Juilliard School, 1939—1941. Bachelor, New York College Music, 1943. Licentiate in organ, Trinity College Music, London, 1947.

Student, University Miami, 1952. Student, Florida Institute of Technology, 1963. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), World University, 1985.

Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Oxford University, England, 1998.

Career

Organist, choir director St. Ignatius Episcopalian Church, 1940-1944. Accompanist Strawbridge Ballet on Tour, New York City, 1944. Organist All Saints Episcopalian Church, Fort Lauderdale, 1951-1954, St. John's Episcopalian Church, Melbourne, Florida, 1956-1959, First Christian Church, Melbourne, 1962-1963, United Church Christ, Melbourne, 1963-1965, piano studio, Melbourne, 1955-1970.

Editor-in-chief Cass Inc., 1970-1971. Director continuity radio Station WTAI, AM-FM, Melbourne, 1971-1974. Member sales staff Engle Realty Inc., Indialantic, Florida, 1975-1978.

Vice president public relations Consolidated Cybertronics Inc., Cocoa Beach, 1969-1970. Writer, producer Countdown News, Station KXTX-television, Dallas, 1978-1980. Associate producer Focus News, 1980.

Host producer television show, Focus on History, 1982-1994, Episcopalian Digest, 1984-1990. Judge Writer's Contest sponsored Brevard Community College, 1987. Vice president Judges Florida Space Coast Writer's Conference, since 1985, chairman, 1987.

Achievements

• Elaine Murray Stone has been listed as a notable writer, composer, television producer by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Dorothy Day: Champion of the Poor

    (Young adult readers as well as adults will be fascinated ...)

  • Maximilian Kolbe: Saint of Auschwitz

    (A biography of the Polish friar, canonized in 1982, who f...)

  • Mary and the Apparitions of Guadalupe, Lourdes, and Fatima (Catholic Classics for Children)

    (The stories of Mary and the apparitions at Lourdes, Fatim...)

  • Christopher Columbus: His World, His Faith, His Adventures

    (A biography of Christopher Columbus, supplemented with hi...)

  • A Saint and His Lion: The Story of Tekla of Ethiopia

    (Born in a tiny village to simple farmers in Ethiopia, Tek...)

  • Mother Teresa: Saint of Calcutta

    (The need for love begins at home Mother Teresa is one of ...)

  • Brevard: On the Edge of Sea & Space

    (Book by Stone, Elaine Murray, Davis, L. A., Becker, George)

  • Uganda : Fire and Blood

    (Book by Stone, Elaine Murray)

  • Brevard County: From Cape of the Canes to Space Coast

    (Book by Stone, Elaine Murray)

  • The Taming of the Tongue

    (48 page plus cover. Publications Department of The Order ...)

  • Christopher Columbus: His World, His Faith, His Adventures by Stone, Elaine Murray (1991) Hardcover

    (500 Anv)

  • Maximilian Kolbe: Saint of Auschwitz by Stone, Elaine Murray (1997) Paperback

    (1st)

  • Maximilian Kolbe: Saint of Auschwitz by Elaine Murray Stone (1-Jan-1997) Paperback
  • (Dorothy Day: Champion of the Poor ) Author: Elaine Murray Stone May-2004
  • Dorothy Day: Champion of the Poor by Stone, Elaine Murray (2004) Paperback
  • A Saint and His Lion: The Story of Tekla of Ethiopia Paperback - March 1, 2004
  • A Saint and His Lion: The Story of Tekla of Ethiopia by Stone, Elaine Murray (2004) Paperback
  • (Mother Teresa: A Life of Love ) Author: Elaine Murray Stone Sep-1999
  • (A Saint and His Lion: The Story of Tekla of Ethiopia ) Author: Elaine Murray Stone Jan-2004
  • (Maximilian Kolbe: Saint of Auschwitz ) Author: Elaine Murray Stone Jun-1997

Membership

Executive board Women's Association, Brevard Symphony, since 1967. Heritage committee Melbourne Bicentennial Commission. Member Evangelism Commission Episcopalian Diocese Center Florida, 1985-1994.

Vice president churchwomen group Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Melbourne, 1988-1989, Stephen minister, since 1988, president churchwomen group, since 1989. Board directors Florida Space Coast Council International Visitors, Florida Space Coast Philharmonic, since 1989, Aid for the Arts, 1994. Appointee History Preservation Committee, Melbourne, Florida, 2003.

Member American Society of Composers, National League American Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association Women (1st place awards Texas 1979, 1st place award for duet, Washington, 2000, president Dallas branch 1978-1980, organizing president Cape Canaveral branch 1969, president 1988-1990, 96—), Women in Communications, Daughters of the American Revolution (Florida state chairman music 1962-1963), Colonial Dames American (organizing president Melbourne chapter 1994), National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (organizing regent Rufus Fairbanks chapter 1981-1985, vice regent since 1987, historian since 1989, Florida state chairman American Heritage), Children American Revolution (past New York state chaplain), American Guild Organists (organizing warden Fort Lauderdale), Space Pioneers, Florida Press, Aid for the Arts, Space Coast Writers Guild (past vice president).

Connections

Married F. Courtney Stone, May 30, 1944. Children: Catherine Gustavson, Pamela Webb, Victoria Mattson.

Father:

H. Murray-Jacoby

Mother:

Catherine Fairbanks Murray-Jacoby

Spouse:

F. Courtney Stone

child:

Catherine Gustavson Stone

child:

Pamela Webb Stone

child:

Victoria Mattson Stone