Items
Items (1-11) out of 11 results
- 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 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
- 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:
- Carol Markovitz Raskin graduated from Pembroke in 1962 with a degree in International Relations. She then moved to Canada to work as in international economist …
- Contributor:
- Markovitz, Carol Ann (interviewee)
- Raskin, Eve (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1960s
- Academics
- Children
- Clothing and fashion
- Dating
- Deans
- Employment
- Family
- Gender expectations
- Marriage
- Pembroke record
- Pembroke/Brown merger
- Physical education
- Posture pictures
- Social life
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In Part I, Cynthia begins by describing her family background. She talks about the contemporary stigma against a middle class wife with a career\u2014and the …
- Contributor:
- Jenner, Cynthia Lee (interviewer)
- Pichey, Mimi (interviewee)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1960s
- Birth control
- Clothing and fashion
- Dating
- Dormitories
- Employment
- Family
- Gender expectations
- Marriage
- Pembroke traditions
- Posture pictures
- Professors
- Religion
- Social life
- Student activities
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Dick begins by speaking of her childhood in Reading, PA; coming to Pembroke and struggling early on with Meniere's syndrome; campus rules & requirements; clothing …
- Year:
- 1982
- Contributor:
- Dick, Esther Amelia (interviewee)
- Chase, Dick (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1930s
- Academics
- Clothing and fashion
- Dormitories
- Employment
- Family
- Gender expectations
- 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:
- Jane Walsh was born in Providence, Rhode Island and lived at home while she attended Pembroke. She discusses being a City Girl, the impact of …
- Year:
- 1988
- Contributor:
- Walsh, Jane Eleanor (interviewee)
- Berma, Julie (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1940s
- Academics
- Administration
- City girls
- Clothing and fashion
- Deans
- Dormitories
- Employment
- Pembroke traditions
- Pembroke-Brown merger
- Presidents
- 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:
- In Part 1, Katherine begins by discussing daily life at Pembroke. For her, this meant commuting to campus and becoming used to the regimented life …
- Year:
- 1982
- Contributor:
- Hazard, Katherine May (interviewee)
- Aschheim, Deborah (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- Academics
- Athletics
- Children
- Clothing and fashion
- Dating
- Deans
- Employment
- Family
- Feminism
- Minority students
- Pembroke traditions
- Chapel
- Dances
- Pembroke/Brown merger
- Professors
- Sororities
- 1930s
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In this interview, Marjorie Roffee Milroy '43, explains that while she grew up in Providence she desired to pursue journalism at Syracuse University in New …
- Year:
- 1988
- Contributor:
- Roffee, Marjorie Marianne (interviewee)
- Cobbe, Paul A. (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1940s
- City girls
- Clothing and fashion
- Pembroke College traditions
- World War II
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Mary Banigan begins her interview by discussing her family background; her experience at Classical High School; and her reasons for attending Pembroke College. Throughout Part …
- Year:
- 1982
- Contributor:
- Banigan, Mary Bernadette (interviewee)
- Levine, Jennifer (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1930s
- Academics
- Administration
- Athletics
- City girls
- Clothing and fashion
- Employment
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection