Background
Pitts, Elaine Ruth Hallead was born on June 20, 1917 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Harry Albert and Ethel Mae (Waring) Hallead.
Pitts, Elaine Ruth Hallead was born on June 20, 1917 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Harry Albert and Ethel Mae (Waring) Hallead.
Student, Art Institute Chicago, 1947—1948. Student, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1948—1949. Student, New York University, 1976—1978.
Packaging engineer Aldens, Inc.,, Chicago, 1947—1948. Senior packaging engineer Spiegel, Inc., 1946—1952. Manager package engineering Sperry & Hutchinson Company, 1953—1959, manager consumer relations New York City, 1959—1970, director consumer affairs, 1970, vice president corporation relations, 1970—1979.
Partner Dalton/Pitts Associates, San Mateo, California, since 1979. Lecturer Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, University Wisconsin, Purdue University, University of California at Los Angeles, Illinois Institute of Technology, University Illinois. Member packaging advisory board Arizona State University, Tempe.
Member national advisory board Distributive Education Clubs American, 1962—1980. Vice chairman, 1964; chairman, 65. Board directors S and H Foundation, 1974—1979.
Member of United States Chamber of Commerce (consumer affairs committee), Public Rels.Soc. America (chairman public affairs section 1985, board directors 1986-1988), American Women in Radio and television (vice president 1969-1970, president 1973-1974, foundation board directors 1982-1987), Society Women Engineers (executive committee 1968-1969, 1977-1980, trustee since 1982), Office Education Association (board directors), Society Packaging & Handling Engineers (chapter president 1957, national chairman board 1966-1967), Business & Professional Women's Club, Secretaries Guild Chicago Boys' Clubs (president 1963).
Married Paul Elbert Pitts, August 25, 1945.