Mary Edith Fry was a library circulation assistant at Oregon State College from 1937 to 1940. She was born in 1910, in Prosser, Washington. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry from Goucher College in 1934. She also earned her Bachelor of Science in Library Science from the Columbia Library School in 1937. Fry was brought on as science specialist for Oregon State’s Circulation Department in 1937. Her annual salary was $1,500. She resigned in 1940 to pursue graduate studies.