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- Description:
- In this interview, Martha Banks, Joan Betesh, Nancy Clarke, Jane Desmond, Lynda Durfee, Phyllis Fineman Schlesinger, Lillian Lim, Patricia McMillen, Nina Peskoe Peyser, Marian Weber, …
- Contributor:
- Banks, Martha (interviewee)
- Betesh, Joan (interviewee)
- Clarke, Nancy (interviewee)
- Desmond, Jane (interviewee)
- Durfee, Lynda (interviewee)
- Knox, Amanda (interviewer)
- Lim, Lillian (interviewee)
- McMillen, Patricia (interviewee)
- Peyser, Nina Peskoe (interviewee)
- Schlesinger, Phyllis Fineman (interviewee)
- Weber, Marian (interviewee)
- Winner, Lucy (interviewee)
- Genre:
- oral histories (document genres)
- Subject:
- Abortion
- Academics
- Activism
- Asian Students
- Birth Control
- Black Students
- Brown Daily Herald
- Clothing and Fashion
- Employment
- Feminism
- Feminist Student Groups
- Gender Expectations
- Open Curriculum
- Pembroke-Brown Merger
- Physical Education
- Politics
- Posture Pictures
- Protests
- Sex Discrimination
- Sexual Harassment
- Student Activities
- Students of Color
- Theatre
- Third World Transition Program
- Vietnam War
- Women’s Movement
- 1970s
- Local ID:
- bdr:1110059
- bdr1110059
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- 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
- 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
- Description:
- In this interview, Charise Castro Smith, Brown University class of 2005, talks about why she decided to attend Brown, what her campus experience was like, …
- Contributor:
- Knox, Amanda (interviewer)
- Smith, Charise Castro (interviewee)
- Genre:
- oral histories (document genres)
- Subject:
- COVID-19
- Latinx Students
- Performance Arts
- September 11, 2001
- Students of Color
- Theatre
- 2000s
- Local ID:
- bdr:1110044
- bdr1110044
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In this interview, Clarice LaVerne Thompson discusses her educational and professional path to becoming a visiting professor in Africana Studies and Music Director at Brown …
- Contributor:
- Knox, Amanda (interviewer)
- Straker, Diane (interviewer)
- Thompson, Clarice LaVerne (interviewee)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- Music
- Music Education
- Performance Arts
- Providence
- Theatre
- 2000s
- Local ID:
- bdr:728107
- bdr728107
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In this interview, Elaine Barbara Frank '39, the daughter of a Providence-born father and Lithuanian-born mother, describes herself as a "City Girl" and discusses her …
- Year:
- 2005
- Contributor:
- Frank, Elaine Barbara (interviewee)
- Lancaster, Jane (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1930s
- City girls
- Student activities
- Theatre
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In this interview, Finch Collins, class of 2021, describes his early memories of his time at Brown University and explains how COVID-19 has impacted his …
- Contributor:
- Collins, Finch (interviewee)
- Knox, Amanda (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (document genres)
- Subject:
- Academics
- COVID-19
- Politics
- Theatre
- Transgender Students
- 2020s
- Local ID:
- bdr:728122
- bdr728122
- 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:
- Jeree Palmer Wade begins her interview by discussing her time in Providence, where she lived with her first husband. She completed a Brown degree in …
- Year:
- 1988
- Contributor:
- Wade, Jerree Palmer (interviewee)
- Sealy, Rosalyn (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1980s
- Family
- Minority students
- Race relations
- Resumed undergraduate education
- Theatre
- Vietnam War
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In this interview, Lynn Nottage, Pulitzer-prize winning playwright and Brown University class of 1986, and her daughter, Ruby Aiyo Gerber, Brown University class of 2020, …
- Contributor:
- Gerber, Ruby Aiyo (interviewee)
- Murphy, Mary (interviewer)
- Nottage, Lynn (interviewee)
- Teklu, Feven (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (document genres)
- Subject:
- Activism
- Black Students
- COVID-19
- Fraternities
- Jewish Students
- Mental Health
- Politics
- Protests
- Protests – 2020 fight against racial injustice
- Racism
- Sororities
- Students of Color
- Theatre
- 1980s, 2020s
- Local ID:
- bdr:728151
- bdr728151
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In these interviews, Maria Manuela Goyanes, Brown University class of 2001, describes why she decided to attend Brown, her experience in the Theatre Department, and …
- Contributor:
- Goyanes, Maria Manuela (interviewee)
- Knox, Amanda (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (document genres)
- Subject:
- Affirmative Action
- COVID-19
- Latinx Students
- Performance Arts
- Students of Color
- Theatre
- Trump Administration
- 2000s
- Local ID:
- bdr:1110039
- bdr1110039
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In this interview, Markita Morris, Brown University class of 1998, brings a perspective of a north Philadelphian who attended public school, was housing insecure, and …
- Contributor:
- Morris, Markita (interviewee)
- Murphy, Mary (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- Dating
- Economics – Social Aspects
- Family
- Housing instability
- Social Life
- Student Activities
- Students of color
- Theatre
- 1990s
- Local ID:
- bdr:728083
- bdr728083
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In this posthumous oral history interview with Michael Van Leesten, a descendant of Ethel Tremaine Robinson (class of 1905) and Cora Robinson (class of 1909), …
- Contributor:
- Murphy, Mary (interviewer)
- Van Leesten, Michael (interviewee)
- Genre:
- oral histories (document genres)
- Subject:
- Academics
- Black Students
- City Girls
- Economics - Social Aspects
- Employment
- Great Depression
- Providence
- Race Relations
- Racial Segregation
- Racism
- Social Life
- Students of Color
- Theatre
- 1900s
- Local ID:
- bdr:838164
- Language:
- eng
- Collection:
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- The University and Beyond
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In this interview, Morayo Akande, Brown University class of 2016, begins by discussing her path to Brown, and the pressure she felt from her parents …
- Contributor:
- Akanda, Morayo (interviewee)
- Murphy, Mary (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- Academics
- Athletics
- Black Students
- Employment
- Housing Instability
- Mental Health
- Students of Color
- Theatre
- Women in Science
- 2010s
- Local ID:
- bdr:728080
- bdr728080
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In this interview, recorded in 1982, Rosa Minkins, class of 1920, and Beatrice Minkins, class of 1936, share their memories of being some of the …
- Contributor:
- Levine, Jane (interviewer)
- Minkins, Beatrice (interviewee)
- Minkins, Rosa J. (interviewee)
- Genre:
- oral histories (document genres)
- Subject:
- Academics
- Black Students
- City Girls
- Dating
- Dormitories
- Economics - Social Aspects
- Employment
- Great Depression
- Providence
- Race Relations
- Racial Segregation
- Racism
- Social Life
- Students of Color
- Theatre
- 1920s, 1930s
- Local ID:
- bdr:838165
- Language:
- eng
- Collection:
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- The University and Beyond
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Ruth Bains Hartmann discusses growing up in Providence, her family, and her educational background. She proceeds to describe the academic atmosphere of Pembroke College; extracurricular …
- Year:
- 2013
- Contributor:
- Bains, Ruth Ellen (interviewee)
- Santry, Phyllis (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1940s
- Academics
- City Girls
- Dormitories
- Employment
- Marriage
- Pembroke College Traditions
- Pembroke-Brown Merger
- Theatre
- World War II
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In this interview, Sarah discusses the proliferation of theatre at Brown and in the greater Providence community. She tells us of the Talma Theatre, The …
- Contributor:
- Minchin, Sarah Elizabeth (interviewee)
- Easton, Harold H. (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1910s
- Gender expectations
- Marriage
- Professors
- Sexism
- Theatre
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Sarah Kay, Brown University class of 2010, begins her interview by describing her experiences as a child during 9/11 in New York City. Kay recalls …
- Year:
- 2018
- Contributor:
- Kay, Sarah (interviewee)
- Wang, Shuyan (interviewer)
- Murphy, Mary (interviewer)
- Buc, Nancy L. (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 2010s
- September 11, 2001
- Asian-American Students
- Internment of Japanese Americans
- Student Activities
- Theatre
- World War II
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In this interview, Susan Beth Adler, Pembroke College class of 1958, recalls her decades of professional and volunteer service to Rhode Island and Brown University. …
- Contributor:
- Adler, Susan Beth (interviewee)
- Bailey, Bernicestine McLeod (interviewer)
- Howard, Jean (interviewer)
- Murphy, Mary (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- Academics
- Administration
- Feminism
- Jewish Students
- Theatre
- 1950s
- Local ID:
- bdr:728097
- bdr728097
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Sylvia Rosen Baumgarten says of her decision to attend college: “My generation of women was relatively mindless; we did what we were told.” This opening …
- Year:
- 1988
- Contributor:
- Rosen, Sylvia (interviewee)
- Pichey, Mimi (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1950s
- Academics
- Birth control
- Children
- Dating
- Dormitories
- Employment
- Family
- Feminism
- Gender expectations
- Marriage
- Minority students
- Sex
- Social life
- Theatre
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection