Parker Pavitt graduates

Published 1:54 pm Thursday, April 30, 2015

Iris Rose Parker Pavitt of Eastsound, Wash., graduated from Mount Holyoke College on Sunday, May 17.

Parker Pavitt majored in history with a minor in library, museum, and archival studies. She is the daughter of Hannah Parker and Bruce Pavitt and the granddaughter of Issa Parker, all of Orcas Island. She is also the granddaughter of Ruth Pavitt of Maple Ridge, British Columbia.

At school she worked in the Mount Holyoke College archives and special collections for two years as a student assistant. She  interned at the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience and Orcas Island Historical Society and Museum, and spent a semester studying abroad in Bolivia. She thanks the Orcas community for their support and encouragement. She plans on working on Red Fire Farm Greenfield, Mass.