Giffard, Ellen Hovde (1925-)

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Giffard, Ellen Hovde (1925-)

Film editor with special interest in parapsychology. Giffard was born March 9, 1925, at Meadville, Pennsylvania, and attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology at Pittsburgh. She worked as an assistant in marine ecology at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts; as secretary to the New York Aquarium; and as a freelance film editor (1950-63). She was a member of the Conference on Parapsychology and Psychedelics held in New York during 1958.

Sources:

Pleasants, Helene, ed. Biographical Dictionary of Parapsychology. New York: Helix Press, 1964.

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