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14 Page 1 of 2 R. Ross Holloway Volunteer Application Orange County Advisory Boards and Commissions Name: Name Called: Home Address: Phone (Day): Phone (Evening) Phone (Cell): Email: Place of Employment: Job Title: Year of OC Residence: Township of Residence: Zone of Residence: Sex: Ethnic Background: Prof. R. Ross Holloway 711 West Main St. Carrboro NC 27510 9199422785 same 4019356417 r_holloway @brown.edu Brown University Elisha Benjamin Andrews Professor, Emeritus 2010 Chapel Hill Male Caucasian Community Activities /Organizational Memberships: Chapel Hill - Carrboro Meals on Wheels, substitute driver Chapel of the Cross, transportation provider Past Service on Orange County Advisory Boards: None Boards /Commissions applied for: Human Relations Commission Background, education and experience relevant to this board: I am proud of my forty years experience in serving as staff member and director of archaeological excavations in the Mediterranean. In doing so I became immersed in other nations and other cultures, leading, in the case of Italy, to a brief stint as expert commentator on the National Television (RAI). I believe that I represent the unprejudiced attitude of pagan Greece and Roman toward the other, who is not the other, but only ourselves in different garb. Reasons for wanting to serve on this board: There is a pressing need in America for following Emma Lazarus call to embrace the downtrodden, which I define today as the pitiful women and children of Central America who seek asylum with us. My mother was a third generation Irish girl in Boston, where being Irish had been hardly better than being black in the states of the old confederacy. As a small child during the Depression I listened to the cries for Social Justice on the Boston Common. Conflict of Interest: