I was honored to be the first recipient "Volunteer  of the Year" for Project Armchair named for Jean here in Bismarck, ND.   We are an organization that receives books from Dolly Parton's Imagination Library and we go to places in Bismarck where families are housed in a temporary place to live until they can find their own place to live.  I go to a place and read to the children and give them books to keep.  I didn't get a chance to meet Jean but I did her daughter and was given one of Jean's favorite books, The Boxcar Children as a reminder of  her.  Jean was very instrumental and close to our leader, Vonda Dahl,  of Project Armchair.  I am  honored to be the first recipient of this award in Jean's name and to read her story and see all that she has done in her life for all.  What a story it is!   

Jean Morrow and I both started out, in slightly different ways, our careers in music librarianship at the New England Conservatory of Music. I had just graduated from the library school at Kent State University, my first professional library position being music cataloguer at the N.E.C. Jean began as an assistant to me, and she became so motivated that she eventually went to library school herself and, continuing to work at the N.E.C., went on to succeed me as music cataloguer, eventually becoming head of the N.E.C.'s Spaulding Music Library, after S. Beck. Jean was a very serious music clerk, paraprofessional, and then professional librarian and always strove for the highest standards in all that she did. I also enjoyed playing chamber music with her from time to time. She was a terrific sight reader, something much valued in amateur chamber music circles. (I was, also, on 'cello, but not so capable at sight reading on piano or harpsichord.) I always treasured the memory of collaboration in working with Jean and in musical and other ways. Her memory is very dear to me.

Sorry I do late. But I. Just saw. This. niow. 

I very  sorry  for the loss of Jean  

I knew Jean.from taking  swimming  years ago. With her daughter. Wynne  With Belmont sport. And Drew’s trips. Too. 

Reach. To me. How she passed 

Jean was a true friend and roommate at the Music Library Association meetings for many years.  I will miss her dearly, and wish we had gotten to some of the adventures we had planned for post-covid.

I was surprised and sad when I heard the news of Jean's passing. She always had a sweet smile and kind words- she will be missed.

I was saddened to learn of the passing of Jean Morrow. She was a wonderful teacher about music libraries for me over thirty years ago. She was a leading light for music libraries here in New England. 

Jean was a pillar of competence and calm in the turbulent environment of the New England Conservatory of Music. Faculty, staff, and students all benefited from her wise counsel. She spoke in measured tones with modesty, but her practical insights carried considerable weight in administrative and faculty committees and in private conversations, too. Her sensible suggestions helped to shape with little fanfare the policies and values of the school. One always emerged from a visit to her über-cluttered office enlightened on some topic and warmed by her ever-present smile and sense of humor. Even her school-girl enthusiasm for the Red Sox and the Patriots was infectious.

Like many librarians, Jean lived to serve, or so it seemed, given the attention she gave to the needs of teachers, students, and scholars. Her knowledge of library resources and procedures smoothed the way for many a report and research project.

Jean was instrumental in ushering NEC into the modern world. When there was no line item in NEC's budget for technology, and none in sight, she negotiated with the Fenway Library Association to provide email service for NEC faculty and students. Eventually she steered the library, with aplomb, through a monumental transition from the old regime of card catalogs and print resources to a transformed universe of digital information and materials. Then she was instrumental in the smart design of a new physical space. A keen judge of character, she recruited a loyal and stellar staff to run the library through all its phases, technical and physical.

To see how compassionately Jean interacted with her late partner, John, and with her daughter, Winn, gave one the impression that she considered NEC part of her personal family, too.

Ever ready for a party, Jean thoroughly shattered one mold in the cliché of librarianship. A toast to her life well lived and to the joy she brought to so many.

So sorry for your loss  she was a beautiful woman  inside and out debbie dunn