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