Carlson, Elizabeth Malm, 1912-. Youth in Boston suburbs; Simmons College graduate;Joined the WAVES in December 1942; Training and indoctrination at U.S. Naval Midshipmen's School (WR) , Northampton, Mass.; At­ tendance at Navy Supply School, Harvard Business School where learned accounting procedures; Assigned to First Naval District headquarters, Boston Navy Yard, as assistant to the disbursing offi­ cer; Married in 1943;Assigned to the Philadelphia Navy Yard; discharged in December 1945; Sig­ nificance of her naval career; Postwar employment.