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- 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:
- 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 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:
- Anita Schell-Lambert was born in 1957 to Theodore Schell and Ann Hess Schell in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Her father was self-employed and her mother was a …
- Year:
- 1986
- Contributor:
- Schell, Anita (interviewee)
- Weinbaum, Cindy M. (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1970s
- Academics
- Dating
- Dormitories
- Employment
- Fraternities
- Marriage
- Professors
- Providence
- Religion
- Sexism
- Sororities
- 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:
- In her interview, Anna C. Renzi, Pembroke College class of 1947, discusses her path to becoming the first woman to receive a Bachelor of Science …
- Contributor:
- Knox, Amanda (interviewer)
- Renzi, Anna C. (interviewee)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- Academics
- City Planning and Historic Preservation
- Employment
- Gender Expectations
- Marriage
- Women in Science
- 1940s
- Local ID:
- bdr:728075
- bdr728075
- 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:
- Bella Skolnik's oral history is a passionate story of activism in health, education, and welfare. She begins her interview by reflecting on her thoughtful and …
- Year:
- 1992
- Contributor:
- Skolnick, Bella (interviewee)
- Anton, Barbara J. (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1930s
- Activism
- Dating
- Dormitories
- Employment
- Marriage
- Politics
- Providence
- Great Depression
- 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:
- Beverly Nanes Dubrin grew up in Boston with her parents and younger sister. With constant encouragement from her parents to attend university, Beverly decided on …
- Year:
- 1986
- Contributor:
- Nanes, Beverly I. (interviewee)
- Bernstein, Elizabeth (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1960s
- Children
- Dating
- Deans
- Employment
- Gender expectations
- Marriage
- Professors
- Providence
- Sexism
- 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 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:
- In the first part of this interview, Elizabeth (Kenyon) Goodale discusses her Aunt Nettie\u2019s experience as a member of Pembroke's first entering class in 1895. …
- Year:
- 1962
- Contributor:
- Goodale, Clare Elizabeth (interviewee)
- Barbara (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1930s
- Administration
- Brown Daily Herald
- Clothing and Fashion
- Dormitories
- Employment
- Family
- Gender Expectations
- Great Depression
- Marriage
- Pembroke Traditions
- Physical Education
- Professors
- Providence
- Social Life
- 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:
- This interview with members of the Pembroke College class of 1967 documents the undergraduate experiences of Carol Lemlein, Susan Haas, Brenda Hubbard, Karen Wolk, Sharon …
- Year:
- 2017
- Contributor:
- Lemlein, Carol M. (interviewee)
- Hass, Susan (interviewee)
- Hubbard, Brenda S. (interviewee)
- Wolk, Karen B. (interviewee)
- Drager, Sharon B. (interviewee)
- Minno, Judith A. (interviewee)
- Murphy, Mary (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1960s
- Abortion
- Birth control
- Children
- Gender expectations
- Marriage
- Professors
- Vietnam War
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Connie begins by talking about her family's involvement in Brown University, and her eventual decision to transfer to Brown. She then discusses her challenging time …
- Year:
- 2015
- Contributor:
- Worthington, Constance (interviewer)
- Blanchard, Christy Law (interviewee)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1960s
- Academics
- Activism
- Birth control
- Children
- Civil rights
- Dating
- Employment
- Family
- Feminism
- Gender expectations
- Integration
- Marriage
- Pembroke-Brown merger
- Politics
- Professors
- Race relations
- Religion
- Sexism
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In this interview, Cynthia Burdick Patterson describes her upbringing; her freshman year at Bryn Mawr College; her marriage and transferring to Pembroke; married life in …
- Year:
- 1988
- Contributor:
- Burdick, Cynthia (interviewee)
- Rai, Samantha (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1960s
- Academics
- Administration
- Dating
- Gender expectations
- Sexism
- Marriage
- 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