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2007.12.30: December 30, 2007: Headlines: COS - Brazil: Obituaries: The Standard-Times: Obituary for Brazil RPCV Elaine Tripp
Obituary for Brazil RPCV Elaine Tripp
Born in Acushnet to Walter and Helen Craven on May 2, 1941, Ms. Tripp attended school there and later graduated from Bridgewater State College with a degree in math and science. She taught those subjects at the North Kingstown, RI, high school for two years before she and her husband joined the Peace Corps. They spent their two years with the Peace Corps doing rural community development work in a small interior town in Brazil, including facilitating an agricultural club for local school children. Over the years, they maintained close friendships made in Brazil and most recently visited there two years ago.
Obituary for Brazil RPCV Elaine Tripp
Elaine Tripp
December 30, 2007 6:00 AM
FALMOUTH — Elaine Tripp, 66, of Falmouth, retired director of the Woods Hole Public Library, died Wednesday, December 26, at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston following a two-year battle with cancer. She was the wife of Bruce W. Tripp, to whom she was married for 43 years.
Born in Acushnet to Walter and Helen Craven on May 2, 1941, Ms. Tripp attended school there and later graduated from Bridgewater State College with a degree in math and science. She taught those subjects at the North Kingstown, RI, high school for two years before she and her husband joined the Peace Corps.
They spent their two years with the Peace Corps doing rural community development work in a small interior town in Brazil, including facilitating an agricultural club for local school children. Over the years, they maintained close friendships made in Brazil and most recently visited there two years ago.
Following the Peace Corps work, Ms. Tripp and her husband moved to Falmouth when he joined the Chemistry Department at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. She joined the Woods Hole Public Library staff in 1975 and also worked in the interlibrary loan department of the Falmouth Public Library. In 1978, Ms. Tripp organized her mother and a small army of others to assemble 300 red, white, and blue stuffed whales to sell as a fundraiser for purchase of a projector for a series of film showings at the Woods Hole library.
She later initiated home delivery of books to Woods Hole Library patrons who could not get to the library themselves and ran this program for nearly 20 years. She was named director of the Woods Hole Library in 2004 and retired two years later because of her illness. A major accomplishment for her directorship was making the Woods Hole Library a fully functioning member of the Cape Libraries Automated Materials Sharing system. She continued to work at the library occasionally until recently. Ms. Tripp had long encouraged the library's trustees to improve compensation for librarians, and the recently established Librarians' Benefit Fund is named for her.
Ms. Tripp's community activities included serving as a volunteer general office manager when The 300 Committee was first getting organized in the mid 1980s. Her role included recruiting, organizing and supervising volunteers to assist with land parcel ranking and acquisition. One huge all-volunteer task was organizing an initial informational mailing to the entire Town of Falmouth.
Her other interests included wilderness hiking and canoe camping, and she enjoyed exploring many areas around New England with her husband. Active parents with North Falmouth Boy Scout Troop 38, they often camped with the scouts, and Ms. Tripp brought her interest in books to the woods by reading aloud to the boys around a campfire.
She was the proud and loving mother of Aaron Tripp of Falmouth, who survives her along with his wife Carrie and his father Bruce. She is also survived by a wide circle of family and friends in the region and around the world who are saddened by her passing.
A memorial event will be scheduled later for Ms. Tripp, probably in the spring. Memorial gifts may be sent to the Elaine Tripp Librarians' Benefit Fund at the Woods Hole Public Library, PO Box 185, Woods Hole, MA 02543.
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