Dorothy Porath – ‘Miss Librarian’ at Milwaukee system’s 75th anniversary

It was the mid-1940s and Dorothy Porath figured she had three career choices.

She’d just graduated from what then was the state teachers college, so she could be a teacher, of course, or a nurse, or a librarian. A part-time job at the downtown library led her to become a librarian and, in 1953, to an unexpected title.

Dorothy Porath was named “Miss Librarian of 1878” as the Milwaukee Public Library system celebrated its 75th anniversary.

Porath, whose husband, Bob, was apparently more impressed with the honor — he’s the one who clipped her photo from the Milwaukee Journal’s Green Sheet and put it in a scrapbook — died April 13 at her Dousman home of natural causes. She was 89.

Porath had been a librarian for about seven years when the library system planned its anniversary bash.

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