Abstract
In this 2025 interview, longtime East Cleveland resident Ross Cockfield reflects on his personal history, professional journey, and decades of community involvement in East Cleveland and with the East Cleveland Public Library. He discusses his upbringing in Cleveland’s Glenville neighborhood and his move to East Cleveland in the early 1970s. Cockfield describes a varied career that included work in utilities and banking, two periods of entrepreneurship in the tech industry, teaching at Bryant & Stratton College, and leadership roles at a local charter school. He recounts his long association with the East Cleveland Public Library, beginning in 1989. Throughout the interview, Cockfield offers insights into community change, family migration roots, and the civic importance of the library in East Cleveland.
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Interviewee
Cockfield, Ross (interviewee)
Interviewer
Mays, Nicholas S. (interviewer)
Project
East Cleveland
Date
11-21-2025
Document Type
Oral History
Duration
142 minutes
Recommended Citation
"Ross Cockfield Interview, 21 October 2025" (2025). Cleveland Regional Oral History Collection. Interview 757013.
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/crohc000/1413
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