DOVER HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF '69

THEN & NOW
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PAM ROSS
Contact info:
Phone - (617) 491-5117
E-mail - pamross007@yahoo.com 

1969	2009

1973  I spent the summer backpacking in Europe.

In the Fall of 1973 I went to Cambridge Massachusetts and attended Episcopal Theological School. I enrolled in the Master of Divinity program hoping to become a priest even though women were not ordained to the priesthood. In 1974 I attended an illegal ordination of women priests which took place in Philadelphia.  In the fall of 1974 my school changed it name to Episcopal Divinity School.

In 1975 I dropped out of school.

1975 – 1977 worked in Dover at Playtex and at the Kent County Law Library.

Oct 1977 I got a job at Harvard Law Library.  In the fall of 1978 I finally met Archibald Cox the former Watergate Prosecutor. He would bring in vegetables from his garden and I along with other people at Harvard Law School got some home-grown vegetables.

While at Harvard Law Library I worked as a library assistant in Monographs, then Monograph supervisor, Interlibrary Loan Assistant and finally Treasure Room Supervisor. (while I was worked at Harvard Law Library there were about 100 people working there too. The law library had about 800,000 books.

I was there 11 years. In the Treasure Room one day  I met Bo Derek and John Derek with Alan Dershowitz. ( I felt I was in a Woody Allen movie). I showed them old books.

During this time I decided to go to library school. I attended Simmons College at night.  In 1988 I graduated from Simmons.

I also joined the movement for a  Harvard union.  I was there while the vote was being counted and I ended up on the evening news and having my picture in the New York Times.

(I was one of the anonymous people but I could pick out the side of my head.!!!) Harvard got a union in 1988

In the fall of 1988  I left Harvard and started working at Foley Hoag and Eliot a law firm in Boston with 150 attorneys at the time. From 1988 – 2002 I worked at 2 other law firms as a reference librarian .

In 1996 my father and my sister died.

In 2002 my law firm merged with a Philadelphia law firm. I was part of a reduction in force.

In 2002 I moved my mother up to Cambridge Massachusetts into assisted living.  In 2008 my mother died.

In 2004 I started working for an library agency. I go from law library to library taking care of their library collections.