Hello Rebecca!

Posted October 18, 2022 by Lindsey Clarke

Rebecca is another new blogger on our team. Rebecca wrote her own introduction so here it is! Look for more great posts from Rebecca soon:

“Hello everyone! My name is Rebecca Devereaux, and I am in the Simmons dual History and Library Science master’s program on the archives track. I grew up in Washington state on the mighty Columbia River. I just finished up my undergraduate at Whitworth University in Spokane, WA, where I double majored in English and history. A few of my favorite classes included Sin and Chaos in Literature and the Philosophy of Chinese Architecture. On the side of my academic work load I invested a good chunk of my time playing tuba for the Whitworth Wind Symphony and the Whitworth Orchestra. I didn’t have space to bring my tuba to Boston, but I have a mouthpiece, just in case somebody needs a tuba player last minute.

My work experiences these past few years have been focused on processing and disseminating information. I worked for a year and a half as an archival student assistant in the Whitworth Archives. There I began my epic collection of the extra mullet boy slides which we were weeding through.

I spent this past summer working at Rocky Reach Dam as a tour guide. I was able to teach hundreds of people about how electricity can be produced by the transfer of energy from the river. I also got to see a record number of salmon migrate up our fish ladder!

I can’t wait to share my journey of exploring Boston while I learn cool library and history knowledge along the way!