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Susan Cowell, Class of 1969: interview Side 1

Description

Abstract:
Interview of Susan Cowell, recorded December 21, 1988. In this segment of the interview she discusses her reasons for choosing Pembroke; her expectations for campus culture; her roommates struggles with class differences; the social life of Pembroke; her own and her peers efforts to protest the Girls School culture, including stealing the Chimes, and a march to the Deans house; her feelings about the Merger; the effect of national student movements on curriculum reform; and political actions including a sit-in at City Hall, the Walk Out, and students turning their backs on Henry Kissinger at Commencement.

Citation

"Susan Cowell, Class of 1969: interview Side 1 " (1988). Pembroke Center Oral History Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:224421/

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  • Pembroke Center Oral History Collection

    This collection contains oral history interviews with alumnae of Brown University, which admitted its first women students in 1891. The Women's College at Brown was renamed Pembroke College in 1928, and in 1971, Pembroke College merged with the Men's College …
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