Hope Ballinger, class of 1944

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Year:: 1988
Contributor:: Ballinger, Hope (interviewee); Vanacore, Amy (interviewer)
Genre:: oral histories (literary works)
Subject:: 1940s; Administration; City Girls; Physical Education; World War II; Gender Expectations; Pembroke-Brown Merger

Abstract:: In Part 1 of this interview, Hope Ballinger Brown discusses her upbringing and how she came to attend Pembroke to study nursing; popular social spots, including the Avon Theatre; her volunteer experience; interactions between Brown and Pembroke students; the abbreviated academic year schedule due to World War II; the expectation of women to marry soon after college; her admiration of Dean Morriss and Bessie Rudd; her opinions on the Pembroke-Brown merger; and her experiences with classes and student groups. In Part 2, she discusses her nursing career; her involvement in alumni activities; the lack of academic guidance she received during college; and how her experience at Pembroke would have been different had she lived on campus rather than being a "city girl."
Notes:: Class year: 1944; Biographical note: Hope Ballinger Brown was born on April 21, 1923 in Providence, Rhode Island. After completing her senior year at Mount Pleasant High School in Providence, she earned her AB in Nursing in 1944. She lived in Rhode Island throughout her life, serving twenty years as a nurse at Rhode Island Hospital. She married Edmund Brown Jr. with whom she had two children. She died on October 23, 2005, in Warwick, Rhode Island.

"Hope Ballinger, class of 1944" (1988). Pembroke Center Oral History Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:577454/

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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