| Graduation Year | Class of 1973 |
| Date of Passing | Dec 20, 2013 |
| About | Conversation started December 21, 2013 Tom Mills 12/21, 4:24pm Tom Mills Ann Koopman of Broomall, PA, died Friday, December 20th from complications relating to pulmonary hypertension. Ann was a librarian and active member of both library and community organizations , and at the time of her death she was a member of the board of directors of the Special Libraries Association, an international organization for information professionals with more than 9000 members in 75 countries. She was also active in the League of Women Voters in New Jersey, receiving the Distinguished Service Award in 2007 for her work as budget director of the state organization and as president of the Camden County chapter. Prior to going on disability in 2012, she had been a librarian at the Scott Memorial Library at Thomas Jefferson University where she held a number of positions relating to electronic services and digital collections since her appointment in 1995. Ann was a 1973 graduate Appleton, WI, East High School and a 1977 graduate of Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, and received a master’s degree from the Graduate Library School at the University of Chicago in 1981. She worked as a science and engineering librarian at Indiana University – Purdue University at Indianapolis in the 1980s and early 1990s. While in Indianapolis, she was active in the Indiana League of Women Voters and was president of the Indiana Pro-Choice Action League. She is survived by her husband, Eric Pumroy, and her two daughters, Rachel Pumroy and Ruth Anne Pumroy, and her son-in-law Adam Schaible. The family requests that instead of sending flowers, that gifts be made in her honor to the Pulmonary Hypertension Association, to the Special Libraries Association, or to Save the Children. |
