- Title Information
- Title
- Hope Ballinger, class of 1944
- Title Information:
Alternative
(displayLabel="Pembroke title")
- Title
- Hope Ballinger Brown, class of 1944
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Ballinger, Hope
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewee
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Vanacore, Amy
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewer
- Type of Resource
- mixed material
- Origin Information
- Date Created
(keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
- 1988-05-11
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- 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."
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Class year")
- 1944
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="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.
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- 1940s
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Administration
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- City Girls
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Physical Education
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- World War II
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Gender Expectations
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Pembroke-Brown Merger
- Genre (aat)
(authorityURI="http://vocab.getty.edy/aat/", valueURI="http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595")
- oral histories (literary works)