CARY LIBRARY - Key Persons
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- Head of Youth Services, Ext. 84431
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Head of Adult Services, Ext. 84411
Dr. Fred S. Piper (1867-1962), was a native of rural New Hampshire and a long-time resident of Lexington, Massachusetts. He worked briefly as a public school teacher and pharmacist before entering the Boston University School of Medicine in 1887. In 1897 he moved his family medical practice from Hillsboro, New Hampshire, to Lexington. His familiarity with medicinal herbs broadened into a lifelong, avid interest in botany, which led him to study plants at home and abroad and to keep a record of more than 300 wildflowers. He admired the distinguished botanist Asa Gray, whose Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States had encouraged Henry David Thoreau's interest in botany.
Dr. Piper was active in several Lexington organizations and committees:
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Programming & Partnerships Manager, Ext. 84451
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- Bibliographic Services Manager, Ext. 84461
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Select Board Member
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- Services Manager, Ext. 84421
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- Head of Technology & Training, Ext. 84471
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- Library Director, Ext. 84401
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- Deputy Director, Ext.84402
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- Director of Development, Ext. 84405
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- Teen Services Manager, Ext. 84441
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Chairman of the Executive Committee, Select Board Member / Rabbi Amy Hertz, Vice Chair of the Executive Committee, Clergy
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- Office Manager, Ext 84403
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Chairman of the Executive Committee, Select Board Member / Rabbi Amy Hertz, Vice Chair of the Executive Committee, Clergy