Ethel Grodzins Romm

Ethel Grodzins Romm (March 3, 1925 – November 9, 2021) was an American author, journalist, project manager and environmental technology company CEO.

In the 1980s, she became a project, construction and building manager for Hartz Mountain Industries and then was President and Chief Executive Officer of Niton Corporation, an environmental science company, from 1988 to 1997.

[4][5] The couple had three sons, David, the host and producer of Shockwave Radio Theater on KFAI-FM;[6] Daniel, a physician;[7] and Joseph, a writer, physicist and climate expert.

[8][9] While in Middletown, over the next 25 years, Romm became an author, journalist and interior and construction designer and lectured on those subjects at Orange County Community College.

[16] Romm gained additional notice for an incident at the White House, in 1972, where she and her husband had been invited as part of a gathering of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

[18] She then was President, Chief Executive Officer of Niton Corporation, in Bedford, Massachusetts, from 1988 to 1997, which designed and built lead and radon detectors, portable X-ray analyzers and other environmental science equipment patented by her brother Lee.