Mary Rosamund Haas (born January 12, 1910; died May 17, 1996) was an American linguist who specialized in North American Indian languages, Thai, and historical linguistics. Haas was born on January 12, 1910 in Richmond, Indiana, where she attended high school, and later Earlham College. At the University of Chicago she undertook graduate work on comparative philology. Her first published paper, "A Visit to the Other World, a Nitinat Text", … Wikipedia
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I asked Paulette Hopple, who worked in Thailand for many years with the Summer Institute of Linguistics, for a comment on Haas. www.nap.edu/html/biomems/mhaas.html
Credits: Spoken Thai for the Internet has been adapted from the book of the same name authored by Mary R. Haas and Heng R. Subhanka and first published in 1945 by the Linguistic Society of America. www.seasite.niu.edu/Thai/spokenthai/Default.htm
One of the founding members and a long-term chair of the Department of Linguistics, Mary Haas is remembered as one of the great researchers and teachers in her field. sealang.net/thai/haas-uc.htm