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Pembroke Center Oral History Collection

This collection contains oral history interviews with alumnae of Brown University, which admitted its first women students in 1891. The Women's College at Brown was renamed Pembroke College in 1928, and in 1971, Pembroke College merged with the Men's College to make Brown University fully coeducational. These oral histories have been recorded by members of the Pembroke Center Associates Council, the Pembroke Center staff, and Brown University students since 1982, and include the voices of women who attended Brown as early as 1907.

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Afua Hassan, class of 1981 and Wanda Moore, class of 1982

Description:
In this interview recorded during the 2018 Black Alumni Reunion, Afua Hassan and Wanda Moore discuss their time at Brown University, the effect their education …
Contributor:
Hassan, Afua (interviewee)
Moore, Wanda (interviewee)
Murphy, Mary (interviewer)
Genre:
oral histories (literary works)
Subject:
Black Students
Children
Group Interview
Midwifery
Racism
Students of Color
1980s, Reunions
Local ID:
bdr:728091
bdr728091
Collection:
Brown University Library
Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
Full Record

Alice Elizabeth O'Connor, class of 1928

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
Full Record

Alice Mary Clark, class of 1946

Description:
Part 1 begins with Alice Clark Donahue's recollections of her first impressions of Pembroke College, her involvement as a speech teacher, and being an assistant …
Year:
1989
Contributor:
Clark, Alice Mary (interviewee)
Lamoree, Karen (interviewer)
Genre:
oral histories (literary works)
Subject:
1940s
Activism
Employment
Feminism
Gender Expectations
World War II
Collection:
Brown University Library
Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
Full Record

Alison Palmer, class of 1953

Description:
In part 1 of this interview, Alison discusses her childhood, her decision to attend Pembroke, and the Pembroke experience. In part 2 she discusses hazing …
Year:
1988
Contributor:
Palmer, Alison (interviewee)
Lamoree, Karen M. (interviewer)
Genre:
oral histories (literary works)
Subject:
1950s
Academics
Athletics
Dating
Employment
Gender expectations
Great Depression
Minority students
Pembroke traditions
Pembroke/Brown merger
Physical education
Politics
Posture pictures
Professors
Sexism
Vietnam War
Collection:
Brown University Library
Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
Full Record

Alita Dorothy Bosworth and Rowena Albro Sherman, class of 1914

Description:
In Part 1 of this interview, Alita Bosworth Cameron and Rowena Sherman Allen discuss how they came to attend Brown University; restrictions and expectations of …
Year:
1990
Contributor:
Bosworth, Alita Dorothy (interviewee)
Sherman, Rowena Albro (interviewee)
Raab, Barbara (interviewer)
Genre:
oral histories (literary works)
Subject:
1910s
Athletics
City girls
Clothing and fashion
Dating
Deans
Dormitories
Fraternities
Gender expectations
Marriage
Pembroke traditions
Physical education
Professors
Sororities
Student activities
Collection:
Brown University Library
Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
Full Record

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority

Description:
In this interview recorded during the 2018 Black Alumni Reunion, Arlean Leland and Lavdena Adams Orr, class of 1976, and Robyn Jones and Patricia Darlene …
Contributor:
Elliot, Patricia Darlene (interviewee)
Jones, Robyn (interviewee)
Leland, Arlean (interviewee)
Murphy, Mary (interviewer)
Orr, Lavdena Adams (interviewee)
Genre:
oral histories (literary works)
Subject:
Academics
Black Students
Group Interview
Open Curriculum
Sororities
Students of Color
Women in Science
1970s, Reunions
Local ID:
bdr:728093
bdr728093
Collection:
Brown University Library
Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
Full Record

Ancelin Vogt, class of 1968

Description:
In this interview, Ancelin Vogt, class of 1968, discusses her parents' backgrounds as intellectuals and graduates of Harvard University and Radcliffe College. She notes that …
Year:
1988
Contributor:
Wolfe, Ancelin (Vogt, Lynch) (interviewee)
Klutznick, Katherine (interviewer)
Genre:
oral histories (literary works)
Subject:
1960s
Birth control
Gender expectations
Marriage
Pembroke-Brown merger
Sexism
Theatre
Collection:
Brown University Library
Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
Full Record

Anita Schell, class of 1979

Description:
Anita Schell-Lambert was born in 1957 to Theodore Schell and Ann Hess Schell in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Her father was self-employed and her mother was a …
Year:
1986
Contributor:
Schell, Anita (interviewee)
Weinbaum, Cindy M. (interviewer)
Genre:
oral histories (literary works)
Subject:
1970s
Academics
Dating
Dormitories
Employment
Fraternities
Marriage
Professors
Providence
Religion
Sexism
Sororities
Collection:
Brown University Library
Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
Full Record

Ann Martha Chmielewski, class of 1959

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
Full Record

Anna C. Renzi, class of 1947

Description:
In her interview, Anna C. Renzi, Pembroke College class of 1947, discusses her path to becoming the first woman to receive a Bachelor of Science …
Contributor:
Knox, Amanda (interviewer)
Renzi, Anna C. (interviewee)
Genre:
oral histories (literary works)
Subject:
Academics
City Planning and Historic Preservation
Employment
Gender Expectations
Marriage
Women in Science
1940s
Local ID:
bdr:728075
bdr728075
Collection:
Brown University Library
Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
Full Record

Anna Rena Hass, class of 1917

Description:
In the first part of the interview, Anna discusses early life on her family’s farm and the decision to attend Pembroke despite wanting to get …
Year:
1987
Contributor:
Hass, Anna Rena (interviewee)
Tavon, Joyce (interviewer)
Genre:
oral histories (literary works)
Subject:
Academics
Activism
Administration
City girls
Civil Rights
Clothing and fashion
Dating
Dormitories
Employment
Family
Gender expectations
Great Depression
Marriage
Minority students
Politics
Providence
Race relations
Social life
Vietnam War
1910s
Collection:
Brown University Library
Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
Full Record

Anne Fausto-Sterling, faculty

Description:
An assistant professor of Anthropology and the only woman in her department when she was hired in 1968, Louise Lamphere was denied tenure in 1974. …
Year:
2014
Contributor:
Fausto-Sterling, Anne, 1944- (interviewee)
Buc, Nancy L. (interviewer)
Genre:
oral histories (literary works)
Subject:
Administration
Affirmative action
Sex discrimination
Louise Lamphere vs. Brown University
Collection:
Brown University Library
Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
Full Record

Anonymous, class of 1920

Description:
The narrator of this interview describes the Brown University campus; student activities; relations between male and female students and the women's and men's colleges; and …
Year:
1982
Contributor:
Lockery, Christopher W. (interviewer)
Genre:
oral histories (literary works)
Subject:
1920s
Administration
Pembroke College Traditions
Social Life
Student Activities
Theatre
Collection:
Brown University Library
Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
Full Record

Arlene Burnice Rome, class of 1943

Description:
In this interview, Arlene Rome Ten Eyck '43, discusses being a City Girl and the difficulties that posed for her. She remembers the inability to …
Year:
1988
Contributor:
Rome, Arlene Burnice (interviewee)
Fogels, Audrey Leland (interviewer)
Genre:
oral histories (literary works)
Subject:
1940s
City girls
Pembroke-Brown merger
World War II
Collection:
Brown University Library
Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
Full Record

Arlene Elizabeth Gorton, faculty

Description:
An assistant professor of Anthropology and the only woman in her department when she was hired in 1968, Louise Lamphere was denied tenure in 1974. …
Year:
2014
Contributor:
Gorton, Arlene (interviewee)
Goldstein, Amy (interviewer)
Genre:
oral histories (literary works)
Subject:
Sex discrimination
Administration
Tenure
Louise Lamphere vs. Brown University
Collection:
Brown University Library
Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
Full Record

Arlene Gorton, class of 1952

Description:
This interview summarizes the career of Arlene Gorton with Pembroke College and Brown University's Athletics Departments. Gorton graduated from Pembroke College in the class of …
Year:
2010
Contributor:
Gorton, Arlene (interviewee)
Lancaster, Jane (interviewer)
Genre:
oral histories (literary works)
Subject:
1970s
Activism
Athletics
Pembroke-Brown merger
Physical education
Sexism
Collection:
Brown University Library
Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
Full Record

Barbara E. Ehrlich, class of 1974

Description:
This interview was donated to the Brown Women Speak project by Lily Cohen, class of 2012. Cohen conducted an interview with her mother, Barbara E. …
Year:
2017
Contributor:
Ehrlich, Barbara E. (interviewee)
Cohen, Lily (interviewer)
Genre:
oral histories (literary works)
Subject:
1970s
Academics
Louise Lamphere vs. Brown
Sexism
Tenure
Women in science
Collection:
Brown University Library
Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
Full Record

Beatrice Coleman, Class of 1925: interview Side 1

Description:
Interview with Beatrice Coleman, conducted by Jane Lancaster on May 24, 2006. Coleman, class of 1925, was 102 years old at the time of the …
Year:
2006
Contributor:
Coleman, Beatrice (interviewee)
Lancaster, Jane (interviewer)
Genre:
oral histories (literary works)
Subject:
Blacks
Greek letter societies
Segregation in higher education
Providence (R.I.)
Collection:
Brown University Library
Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
Full Record

Beatrice Coleman, Class of 1925: interview Side 1

Description:
Interview with Beatrice Coleman, conducted by Jane Lancaster on May 24, 2006. Coleman, class of 1925, was 102 years old at the time of the …
Year:
2006
Contributor:
Coleman, Beatrice (interviewee)
Lancaster, Jane (interviewer)
Genre:
oral histories (literary works)
Subject:
Blacks
Greek letter societies
Segregation in higher education
Providence (R.I.)
Collection:
Brown University Library
Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
Full Record

Bella Skolnick, class of 1933

Description:
Bella Skolnik's oral history is a passionate story of activism in health, education, and welfare. She begins her interview by reflecting on her thoughtful and …
Year:
1992
Contributor:
Skolnick, Bella (interviewee)
Anton, Barbara J. (interviewer)
Genre:
oral histories (literary works)
Subject:
1930s
Activism
Dating
Dormitories
Employment
Marriage
Politics
Providence
Great Depression
Collection:
Brown University Library
Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
Full Record

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