Myra Joy Aronson was 50 years old from Charlestown, Boston, Massachusetts. She was a press and analyst relations manager at Compuware Corp.
Once, when Myra Joy Aronson was visiting her brother and his family in Washington, she found out about the Bastille Day celebrations at the French Embassy and managed , at the very last minute, to get herself invited.
It was characteristic both of her love of all things French, and her spontaneous energy. She had fallen in love with France during a year abroad in college, where her love for the country's language and cuisine flourished. In recent years she held annual French- themed dinners with 15 or 20 friends, where they would prepare an elaborate Gallic feast with excellent wines. She also organized trips to Cape Cod with her friends in the summer.
Ms. Aronson loved music, and did volunteer work for the Handel & Haydn Society in Boston.
She was born on December 9th, 1950 on Elgin, Kane County, Illinois and was raised in St. Louis, Missouri;
graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio,
with a Bachelor's Degree in French and later
she received a master's degree in communications at
Boston University.
graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio,
with a Bachelor's Degree in French and later
she received a master's degree in communications at
Boston University.
"Myra was a wonderful friend," said Pamela Waite of Cambridge. "She was someone who was looking forward to the rest of her life."
Ms. Aronson had resided in the Boston area since 1973, according to family and friends.
Over the years, she worked as a public relations consultant to many Boston companies. Ms. Aronson also taught public relations courses at Emerson College. She had worked as a public relations and alliance manager for Compuware Corp. in Cambridge since May 2000.
"She was an incredibly bright woman on top of her game in public relations," Waite said. "She was a wonderful person and I'm going to miss her terribly."
A music fan, Ms. Aronson served on the marketing committee for the Handel and Haydn Society, a premier period instrument orchestra and professional chorus.
Family and friends described Ms. Aronson as athletic and health-conscious, working out four or five times a week.
She leaves her mother, Evelyn, of St. Louis; a brother, Jules, of Bethesda, Md.; two sisters, Elyse Van Breedan of Clearwater, Fla., and Deborah of St. Louis and sister-in-law Nancy Aronson.
Ms. Aronson, a longtime Boston resident, was on her way to Palm Springs, Calif., for a business conference along with her co-worker, Graham Berkeley, 37, of Boston, who was aboard United Airlines Flight 175 and also died in the attack.
Her family and friends have established a scholarship at Miami University, her alma mater, to help students who want to study in France.
Myra Joy Aronson was on the plane that struck 1 World Trade Center, seated in economy class seat 28C, behind Robert Norton and in front of Seima Aoyama and across the hallway from Laurie Neira.
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