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- 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
- 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:
- Beverly begins the interview telling of her both her parents’ self-made careers—her father’s opening of an iron foundry and her mother’s self-education. A first-generation college …
- Year:
- 1988
- Contributor:
- Calderwood, Beverly Anne (interviewee)
- Cunkelman, Brian (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1950s
- Academics
- Athletics
- Children
- City girls
- Clothing and fashion
- Deans
- Dormitories
- Employment
- Family
- Gender expectations
- Marriage
- Pembroke 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, at 80 years old, Carol Canner reflects on her undergraduate experience at Pembroke College in the 1950s.She begins by sharing some family …
- Year:
- 2017
- Contributor:
- Canner, Carol (interviewee)
- Pape, Whitney (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- Dating
- Dormitories
- Gender expectations
- Marriage
- 1950s
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In her second interview, Carol Canner, Brown University class of 1959, describes the difficulty of mourning the death of her husband, Atle Gjelsvik, during the …
- Contributor:
- Canner, Carol (interviewee)
- Knox, Amanda (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (document genres)
- Subject:
- COVID-19
- Jewish Students
- Marriage
- 1950s
- Local ID:
- bdr:1110035
- bdr1110035
- 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:
- In this interview, Charlotte Lowney Tomas, looking back on a 40-year career with Pembroke and Brown, details her upward trajectory through the ranks of the …
- Year:
- 1990
- Contributor:
- Tomas, Charlotte Tomas (interviewee)
- Lamoree, Karen M. (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1950s
- 1968 Walkout
- Academics
- Activism
- Administration
- Brown Daily Herald
- Civil rights
- Deans
- Employment
- Pembroke/Brown merger
- Professors
- Providence
- Sexism
- Vietnam War
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Jettabee, Diana, Felice, Pearl, Diane, Patricia, Marilyn, Margery, Joan, Kay, and Barbara begin their interview by discussing their admissions process and reasons for choosing Pembroke. …
- Year:
- 2004
- Contributor:
- Class of 1954 (interviewee)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1950s
- Academics
- Dating
- Deans
- Dormitories
- Posture pictures
- Professors
- Sexism
- Social life
- Student activities
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Geneva, Margaret, Barbara, Jane, Gretchen, Margie, and Jenifer begin their interview by reminiscing about their reasons for choosing Pembroke, citing the coordinate education system as …
- Year:
- 2006
- Contributor:
- Class of 1954 (interviewee)
- Lancaster, Jane (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1950s
- Academics
- Dormitories
- Employment
- Family
- Gender expectations
- Posture pictures
- Sexism
- Social life
- Student activities
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Barbara, Anne, Jane, Carol, and Raya begin their interview by reminiscing about their reasons for choosing Pembroke. All five women came to Brown from different …
- Year:
- 2008
- Contributor:
- Fontaine, Barbara (interviewee)
- Goff, Maraya Raya McCully (interviewee)
- Hanson, Carol Jadick (interviewee)
- Howard, Jane Loveless (interviewee)
- Lancaster, Jane (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1950s
- Academics
- Dormitories
- Employment
- Family
- Gender expectations
- Marriage
- Religion
- Social life
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- After introducing themselves, Diane, Kathy, Caryl-Ann, Laura, Jackie, Nina, and Liza begin by discussing why they chose to attend Pembroke, listing a variety of reasons …
- Year:
- 2009
- Contributor:
- Fishman, Laura Thomasson (interviewee)
- Humm, Katherine Robinson Hempstead (interviewee)
- Jones, Jacqueline (interviewee)
- Krooss, Nina Wiita (interviewee)
- Nieforth, Caryl-Ann Miller (interviewee)
- Scola, Diane (interviewee)
- Taft, Liza (interviewee)
- Lancaster, Jane (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1950s
- Academics
- Dating
- Dormitories
- Gender expectations
- Marriage
- Racism
- Religion
- Sexism
- Social life
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Diane E. Scola's oral history is an example of autonomy and feminist conviction despite gender discrimination. She begins her interview discussing her Italian-American family background, …
- Year:
- 1988
- Contributor:
- Scola, Diane E. (interviewee)
- Cummings, Lisa (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1950s
- Academics
- Administration
- Children
- City girls
- Dormitories
- Employment
- Famly
- Feminism
- Gender expectations
- Marriage
- Pembroke traditions
- Pembroke-Brown merger
- Professors
- Providence
- Sexism
- 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 Part 1 of the interview, Elizabeth talks about her family and her upbringing in rural Texas and how she came to attend Pembroke College. …
- Year:
- 1988
- Contributor:
- Gibbons, Elizabeth Anne (interviewee)
- Roth, JoAnn A. (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1950s
- Academics
- Administration
- Pembroke-Brown Merger
- Physical Education
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In this interview, Janice Vanderwater discusses her college education at Barnard College and her path to becoming the first female faculty member of the English …
- Year:
- 1983
- Contributor:
- Vanderwater, Janice (interviewee)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1950s
- Administration
- Employment
- Gender expectations
- Professors
- Theatre
- World War II
- 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
- Description:
- In Part 1 of this interview, Lois Black describes coming to Pembroke College from a working class Massachusetts town; her first experiences of Pembroke; living …
- Year:
- 1990
- Contributor:
- Black, Lois Mae (interviewee)
- Smith, Juliette (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1950s
- Administration
- Dormitories
- Pembroke-Brown Merger
- Race Relations
- Sexism
- Racial Segregation
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Marjorie Alice Jones Sternberg speaks as a member of the silent generation and considers the busy, active life she's lead despite the fact that nobody …
- Year:
- 1988
- Contributor:
- Jones, Marjorie Alice (interviewee)
- Hyun, Julia J. (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1950s
- Academics
- Activism
- Administration
- Athletics
- Civil rights
- Dormitories
- Employment
- Feminism
- Gender expectations
- Pembroke traditions
- Pembroke-Brown merger
- Physical education
- Posture pictures
- Professors
- Sexism
- Vietnam War
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Mary Swope begins her interview discussing her childhood and family background, especially her family's emphasis on education. She explains her decision to transfer to Pembroke …
- Year:
- 1986
- Contributor:
- Swope, Mary H. (interviewee)
- Bernstein, Elizabeth (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1950s
- Academics
- Dormitories
- Employment
- Family
- Feminism
- Gender expectations
- Marriage
- Professors
- Sexism
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Speaking 61 years after graduating from Pembroke College, Mary Jane Mikuriya, class of 1956, shares an exceptionally rich account of her experience as an American …
- Year:
- 2017
- Contributor:
- Mikuriya, Mary Jane (interviewee)
- Pichey, Mimi (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1950s
- Activism
- Asian-American students
- Dormitories
- Minority students
- Racism
- Sexism
- World War II
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection