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- Description:
- Alice Chmielewski begins by discussing her life growing up in East Providence and assuming guardianship of her brothers and sisters after the early deaths of …
- Year:
- 1982
- Contributor:
- O'Connor, Alice Elizabeth (interviewee)
- Linn, Karen E. (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1920s
- Academics
- Administration
- Athletics
- Children
- City Girls
- Employment
- Professors
- Social Life
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- The daughter of Alice O'Connor Chmielewski '28, Ann begins her own interview by relating childhood memories of accompanying her mother to Pembroke College reunions. She …
- Year:
- 2013
- Contributor:
- Chmielewski, Ann Martha (interviewee)
- Korwin, Wendy (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1950s
- City Girls
- Dormitories
- Employment
- Family
- Marriage
- Pembroke College Traditions
- Pembroke-Brown Merger
- Posture Pictures
- Professors
- Providence
- Social Life
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Beatrice "Bea" Wattman was the daughter of a jeweler who immigrated from Moldavia in 1895 at age 18, and a mother who came from Austria …
- Contributor:
- Lancaster, Jane (interviewer)
- Wattman, Beatrice (interviewee)
- Genre:
- oral histories (document genres)
- Subject:
- Academics
- City Girls
- Employment
- Family
- Great Depression
- Jewish Students
- Open Curriculum
- Physical Education
- Posture Pictures
- Providence
- 1930s
- Local ID:
- bdr:1110061
- bdr1110061
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- "Every girl should go to college." Flanders recalls telling her parents as a sophomore in high school. Flanders reflects on her arrival at Pembroke, taking …
- Year:
- 1989
- Contributor:
- Flanders, Caroline (interviewee)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1920s
- Academics
- City Girls
- Deans
- Employment
- Family
- Great Depression
- Pembroke-Brown Merger
- Professors
- Social Life
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- "If you graduate from Pembroke, you can do anything you want to do." These were the words of Dean Lewis that Charlene Ingraham warmly recalls …
- Year:
- 1988
- Contributor:
- ingraham, Charlene Marion (interviewee)
- Rios Camacho, Limary (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1950s
- Academics
- Athletics
- City Girls
- Clothing and Fashion
- Dormitories
- Employment
- Gender Expectation
- Pembroke College Traditions
- Pembroke-Brown Merger
- Physical Education
- Posture Pictures
- Professors
- Social Life
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Ferguson tells why she chose Pembroke over Wellesley; how following a woman she admired, she wanted to become Boston insurance agent; that she "never felt …
- Contributor:
- Ferguson, Charlotte (interviewee)
- Gollag, Suzanne (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1920s
- Academics
- Brown Daily Herald
- City Girls
- Deans
- Feminism
- Gender Expectations
- Great Depression
- Pembroke-Brown Merger
- Presidents
- World War I
- Religion
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Doris begins Part 1 by discussing her early education and family life in Rhode Island. Doris talks about the expectations for "nice girls" at Brown …
- Year:
- 1982
- Contributor:
- Hopkins, Doris Madeline (interviewee)
- Fadiman, Ramsey M. (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1920s
- Academics
- Athletics
- City Girls
- Clothing and Fashion
- Gender Expectations
- Marriage
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In this interview, Dorothy Allen Hill starts by discussing her aunt, Mary Hill who graduated from Pembroke in 1904 and her father's early insistence that …
- Year:
- 1982
- Contributor:
- Hill, Dorothy Allen (interviewee)
- Conover, Elizabeth (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1930s
- Academics and Coursework
- City Girls
- Clothing and Fashion
- Employment
- Gender Expectations
- Great Depression
- Pembroke-Brown Merger
- Physical Education
- Religion
- Social Life
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In Part 1, Edna discusses her family background; preparing for Pembroke at Classical High School; entering Pembroke as a freshman surrounded by mature veterans who …
- Year:
- 1988
- Contributor:
- Graham, Edna Frances (interviewee)
- Seiple, Amy (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1950s
- Academics
- Athletics
- Children
- City Girls
- Dating
- Employment
- Family
- Feminism
- Gender Expectations
- Marriage
- Pembroke Traditions
- Physical Education
- Social Life
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In this interview, Eleanor McElroy, class of 1937, begins by describing her family and educational background, emphasizing the liberal minded nature of her single mother …
- Year:
- 1986
- Contributor:
- McElroy, Eleanor Rosalie (interviewee)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1930s
- Dating
- Great Depression
- City Girls
- Employment
- Pembroke-Brown merger
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In Part 1, Elizabeth begins by talking about her high-achieving family. Educated at Harvard Dental School, her father was one of only two black dentists …
- Year:
- 1987
- Contributor:
- Jackson, Elizabeth (interviewee)
- Baker, Dorcey (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- Academics
- Activism
- Administration
- Children
- City Girls
- Civil rights
- Deans
- Dormitories
- Employment
- Family
- Integration
- Marriage
- Minority students
- Politics
- Professors
- Providence
- Race relations
- Segregation
- Social life
- Student activities
- World War II
- 1940s
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- At the start of this interview, Elizabeth Pretzer Rall describes what it was like to attend Pembroke College while living at home with her family …
- Year:
- 2013
- Contributor:
- Pretzer, Elizabeth (interviewee)
- Schechter, Claudia (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1940s
- Academics
- City Girls
- Employment
- Family
- Marriage
- Social Life
- World War II
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Ethel Nichols Thomas begins her interview discussing her plans for the future, speaking on her wish to return to the workforce despite discrimination based on …
- Year:
- 1985
- Contributor:
- Nichols, Ethel Colvin (interviewee)
- Scott, Joan Wallach (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1930s
- Academics
- Administration
- City Girls
- Employment
- Family
- Feminism
- Great Depression
- Marriage
- World War II
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In Part 1, Gloria begins by describing her relationship to her father, an immigrant cement business owner, her role as a “typical Italian daughter,” and …
- Year:
- 1985
- Contributor:
- Del Papa, Gloria elizabeth (interviewee)
- Fenimore, Carol (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1940s
- Academics
- Athletics
- City Girls
- Dating
- Dormitories
- Family
- Gender expectations
- Marriage
- Minority students
- Pembroke College traditions
- Physical Education
- Posture Pictures
- Professors
- Social life
- Student activities
- World War II
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Grace McAuslan discusses her family life, dress codes, Pembroke student government, the Brown-Pembroke merger, Pembroke traditions, and the lack of discussion surrounding politics, the women's …
- Year:
- 1982
- Contributor:
- McAuslan, Grace Amelia (interviewee)
- Hackelman, Daniel (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1920s
- Academics
- Administration
- City Girls
- Dating
- Deans
- Dormitories
- Employment
- Gender expectations
- Great Depression
- Minority students
- Pembroke traditions
- Pembroke-Brown merger
- Presidents of Brown University
- Politics
- Professors
- Providence
- Social life
- Student activities
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Helena "Pat" Hogan Shea was born in Ireland and was a student in 1928 when the Women's College became known as Pembroke College. She worked …
- Year:
- 1998
- Contributor:
- Hogan, Helena (interviewee)
- Anton, Barbara J. (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1930s
- Academics
- City Girls
- Employment
- Pembroke College Traditions
- Pembroke-Brown Merger
- Physical Education
- Social Life
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In this interview, Hilda Calabro discusses attending Pembroke College as a "city girl," World War II and its effect on her education at Pembroke, and …
- Year:
- 1985
- Contributor:
- Calabro, Hilda Antoinette (interviewee)
- Kroll, Janet (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1940s
- Administration
- City Girls
- Dating
- Gender Expectations
- Pembroke-Brown Merger
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In Part 1 of this interview, Hope Ballinger Brown discusses her upbringing and how she came to attend Pembroke to study nursing; popular social spots, …
- Year:
- 1988
- Contributor:
- Ballinger, Hope (interviewee)
- Vanacore, Amy (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1940s
- Administration
- City Girls
- Physical Education
- World War II
- Gender Expectations
- Pembroke-Brown Merger
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Joyce Wetherald Fairchild's interview demystifies the work and operations of the Brown Corporation, where she served as a trustee, committee member, and as an emerita. …
- Year:
- 1992
- Contributor:
- Wetherald, Joyce (interviewee)
- Ferber, Susan J. (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1940s
- Administration
- Athletics
- Birth control
- Brown Daily Herald
- City Girls
- Deans
- Feminism
- Gender expectations
- Great Depression
- Pembroke Record
- Pembroke traditions
- Presidents
- Physical education
- Politics
- Professors
- Sexism
- Social life
- Student activities
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- This interview concentrates on Lillian's family life and her experiences as a commuter student. She explains that her parents expected her to live at home …
- Year:
- 1988
- Contributor:
- Berberian, Lillian Shoushan (interviewee)
- Gates, Michael (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1950s
- Academics
- Children
- City Girls
- Employment
- Family
- Gender Expectations
- Marriage
- Minority Students
- Physical Education
- Race Relations
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection