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- Description:
- This interview with members of the Brown University class of 1997 documents the undergraduate experiences of Kavita Bali, Kathryn King Crowley, Stephanie Malia Sylvester Hom, …
- Contributor:
- Bali, Kavita (interviewee)
- Crowley, Kathryn King (interviewee)
- Hom, Stephanie Malia Sylvester (interviewee)
- Kellar-Duke, Rebecca (interviewee)
- Knox, Amanda (interviewer)
- Larouco, Danielle Solari (interviewee)
- Genre:
- oral histories (document genres)
- Subject:
- Academics
- Athletics
- Employment
- Open Curriculum
- Social Life
- Student Activities
- Students of Color
- Third World Transition Program
- 1990s
- Local ID:
- bdr:1110053
- bdr1110053
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- This interview with members of the Brown University class of 1972 documents the undergraduate experiences of Joan McDonald DeFinis, Karen Leggett Abouraya, Sarah Lloyd Wolf, …
- Contributor:
- Abouraya Karen Leggett (interviewee)
- DeFinis, Joan McDonald (interviewee)
- Knox, Amanda (interviewer)
- Meadows, Lucy (interviewee)
- Papermaster, Linda (interviewee)
- Rudden, Eileen (interviewee)
- Seelye, Ann (interviewee)
- Wolf, Sarah Lloyd (interviewee)
- Genre:
- oral histories (document genres)
- Subject:
- 1968 Walkout
- Athletics
- Clothing and Fashion
- Dormitories
- Feminism
- Gender Expectations
- Marriage
- Open Curriculum
- Pembroke College traditions
- Pembroke-Brown Merger
- Physical Education
- Posture Pictures
- Professors
- Protests
- Title IX
- 1970s
- Local ID:
- bdr:1110052
- bdr1110052
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- 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:
- 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:
- 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
- Description:
- In 1991, Brown University announced that four varsity sports, including women’s volleyball and gymnastics, would have their funding cut forcing them to become varsity club …
- Contributor:
- Cohen, Amy (interviewee)
- Kaplowitz, Lisa Stern (interviewee)
- Knox, Amanda (interviewer)
- Todd, Jennifer Hsu (interviewee)
- Genre:
- oral histories (document genres)
- Subject:
- Activism
- Athletics
- Brown Daily Herald
- Sex Discrimination
- Title IX
- 1990s
- Local ID:
- bdr:1110045
- bdr1110045
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- 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
- 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:
- "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:
- This interview with members of the Brown University class of 1981 summarizes the undergraduate experiences of Marie-Armide "Mimi" (Storey) Ellis, Kathryn "K.K." Streator, Claire Boerschlein-Hare, …
- Year:
- 2006
- Contributor:
- Ellis, Marie-Armide Storey (interviewee)
- Streator, Kathryn (interviewee)
- Boerschlein-Hare, Claire (interviewee)
- Curley, Suzanne (interviewee)
- McQueen, Virginia Tortolan (interviewee)
- Wheelright, Alice (interviewee)
- Lancaster, Jane (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1980s
- Athletics
- Dormitories
- Employment
- Gender expectations
- Social life
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- This interview with members of the Brown University class of 1985 summarizes the economically, socially, and racially diverse undergraduate experiences of Frances Lee, Suzanne Goldberg, …
- Year:
- 2010
- Contributor:
- Lee, Frances (interviewee)
- Goldberg, Suzanne (interviewee)
- Rosen, Margaret (interviewee)
- Smith, Karen (interviewee)
- Mitchell, Alison Tucker (interviewee)
- Ray, Katherine Melchoir (interviewee)
- Caskey, Jill Hereford (interviewee)
- Lancaster, Jane (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1980s
- Athletics
- Brown Daily Herald
- Minority students
- Feminism
- Fraternities
- Race relations
- Sexism
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- This interview with members of the Brown University class of 1991 captures the undergraduate experiences of Triane Chang, Christina Valeo, Sharon Besser, Prudence Carter, and …
- Year:
- 2016
- Contributor:
- Chang, Triane (interviewee)
- Valeo, Christina (interviewee)
- Besser, Sharon (interviewee)
- Carter, Prudence (interviewee)
- Bass, Pamela (interviewee)
- Pape, Whitney (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1990s
- Academics
- Athletics
- Feminism
- Social life
- 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:
- Dorothy (Testa) Haus begins this extensive interview by talking about her life before Pembroke, growing up as a "Pollyanna" in Brattleboro, VT. Haus discusses many …
- Year:
- 1988
- Contributor:
- Haus, Dorothy Ann (interviewee)
- Wade, Kimberly Sue (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1960s
- Academics and Coursework
- Administration
- Athletics
- Birth Control
- Clothing and Fashion
- Dating
- Dormitories
- Employment
- Family
- Fraternities
- Marriage
- Pembroke Record
- Pembroke Traditions
- Physical Education
- 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, Emily Coe-Sullivan, Rachel Reichlin, and Mariah Sixkiller, members of the class of 1999, reflect on their time at Brown University shortly after …
- Contributor:
- Coe-Sullivan, Emily (interviewee)
- Knox, Amanda (interviewer)
- Reichlin, Rachel (interviewee)
- Sixkiller, Mariah (interviewee)
- Genre:
- oral histories (document genres)
- Subject:
- Academics
- Athletics
- Fraternities
- HIV/AIDS
- Open Curriculum
- Reunions
- Student Activities
- Title IX
- 1990s
- Local ID:
- bdr:1110070
- Language:
- eng
- 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:
- This interview comes from a career forum for music students held at the Orwig Music Building with Gwyneth Walker (Class of 1968) in Providence, Rhode …
- Year:
- 1997
- Contributor:
- Walker, Gwyneth Van Anden (interviewee)
- Schneider, Karen L. (transcriber)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1960s
- Athletics
- Employment
- Gender expectations
- Pembroke-Brown merger
- Sexism
- Student activities
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Helen Thayer Paxton grew up in North Smithfield, Rhode Island. She remembers Pembroke as a place of "gracious living," including maids to clean the dorm …
- Year:
- 1990
- Contributor:
- Thayer, Helen Julia (interviewee)
- Raab, Barbara (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1920s
- Athletics
- Children
- Clothing and fashion
- Dating
- Dormitories
- Fraternities
- Pembroke traditions
- Providence
- Social life
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Joyce begins her interview by discussing the experiences and people that led her to apply and attend Pembroke, such as going to boarding school, having …
- Year:
- 1995
- Contributor:
- Richardson, Joyce Loretta (interviewee)
- Byrd, Derria Monique (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1960s
- Academics
- Activism
- Administration
- Athletics
- Deans
- Dormitories
- Employment
- Family
- Fraternities
- Gender expectations
- Integration
- Marriage
- Pembroke traditions
- Student activities
- Physical education
- Professors
- Providence
- Race relations
- Religion
- Segregation
- Sexism
- Social life
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection