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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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- Ingrid Winther Scobie's interview expresses the nuanced frustration women experience as a result of gender expectations that limit them and suppress their full potential. She …
- Year:
- 1988
- Contributor:
- Winther, Ingrid Ellen (interviewee)
- Bruce, Ashley (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1960s
- Academics
- Activism
- Administration
- Children
- Dating
- Dormitories
- Employment
- Family
- Gender expectations
- Marriage
- Pembroke traditions
- Pembroke-Brown merger
- Physical education
- Professors
- Sexism
- 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
- 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:
- In part 1 of her interview, Lucile Wawzonek Thompson discusses changing attitudes towards formal gender divisions on campus during the Pembroke/Brown merger. She begins by …
- Year:
- 1988
- Contributor:
- Wawzonek, Lucile Kay (interviewee)
- Krawiec, Rebecca (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1970s
- 1968 Walkout
- Academics
- Activism
- Athletics
- Birth control
- Dating
- Dormitories
- Employment
- Family
- Feminism
- Gender expectations
- Marriage
- Pembroke traditions
- Pembroke-Brown merger
- Physical education
- Posture pictures
- Professors
- Providence
- Social life
- Sexism
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Margaret Mary Porter Dolan begins her 1988 interview discussing her family background and her motivation for both going to college and choosing Brown. She reflects …
- Year:
- 1988
- Contributor:
- Porter, Margaret Mary (interviewee)
- Hyun, Julia J. (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1930s
- Academics
- Administration
- Dating
- Employment
- Family
- Gender expectations
- Great Depression
- Marriage
- Pembroke-Brown merger
- Physical education
- Professors
- Social life
- Student activities
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Appleton begins the interview recalling the defining decision made by Pembroke Dean Lida Shaw King to abolish all sororities on campus. She then describes the …
- Year:
- 1981
- Contributor:
- Appleton, Marguerite (interviewee)
- Raab, Barbara (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1910s
- Athletics
- Deans
- Employment
- Family
- Fraternities
- Pembroke traditions
- Physical education
- Social life
- Sororities
- 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:
- Miriam Dale Pichey's interview is an energetic insight into the politics of student life at Brown in the late 1960s and early 1970s. She describes …
- Year:
- 2015
- Contributor:
- Pichey, Miriam Dale (interviewee)
- Bochiccio, Sarah (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1970s
- 1968 walkout
- Academics
- Activism
- Administration
- Athletics
- Birth control
- Civil rights
- Feminism
- Gender expectations
- Pembroke traditions
- Pembroke-Brown merger
- Physical education
- Politics
- Posture pictures
- Sexism
- Social life
- Vietnam War
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In this interview, Dr. Rosemary Pierrel Sorrentino describes her leadership as Dean of Pembroke from 1961 through 1972. Dr. Sorrentino, or Dean Pierrel as she …
- Year:
- 1988
- Contributor:
- Pierrel, Rosemary (interviewee)
- Lamoree, Karen M. (interviewer)
- Newman, Louise M. (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1960s
- 1968 walkout
- Academics
- Activism
- Administration
- Birth control
- Civil rights
- Feminism
- Gender expectations
- Minority students
- Pembroke-Brown merger
- Physical education
- Race relations
- Sexism
- Student activities
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Susan begins by talking about her family, her choice to attend Pembroke, and the challenge of the academics once she arrived. She discusses her various …
- Year:
- 1988
- Contributor:
- Semenoff, Susan A. (interviewee)
- Hyun, Julia J. (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1960s
- Academics
- Activism
- Administration
- Brown Daily Herald
- Deans
- Dormitories
- Gender expectations
- Marriage
- Pembroke traditions
- Physical education
- Politics
- Segregation
- Sexism
- Social life
- Vietnam War
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Susan Weatherhead grew up in Barrington, Rhode Island, in the same house she lived in at the time of this interview (1988). She commuted to …
- Year:
- 1988
- Contributor:
- Weatherhead, Susan (interviewee)
- Patton, Richard Randolph (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1940s
- City girls
- Deans
- Employment
- Pembroke traditions
- Pembroke-Brown merger
- Physical education
- Professors
- Student activities
- World War II
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In this interview conducted in 2012, Teresa Elizabeth Gagnon '39, discusses her auspicious start at Pembroke College at the age of fifteen. She remembers being …
- Year:
- 2012
- Contributor:
- Gagnon, Teresa Elizabeth (interviewee)
- Lancaster, Jane (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1930s
- Athletics
- Physical education
- Professors
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection