- Title Information
- Title
- Mary Carpenter Emerson, class of 1927
- Title Information:
Alternative
(displayLabel="Pembroke title")
- Title
- Mary Carpenter Emerson Sweet, class of 1927
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Emerson, Mary Carpenter
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewee
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Wilbur, Ashley
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewer
- Type of Resource
- mixed material
- Origin Information
- Date Created
(keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
- 1988-05-06
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Abstract
- Emerson tells of her family's tradition of attending Brown University, which
included her mother, her maternal uncles and her maternal grandfather. Like her mother,
Emerson became a science teacher, teaching biology, geometry, general science, chemistry and
physics. She speaks of her early life: losing her father at age 11 while living in Louisiana,
then moving with her mother to Rhode Island to be close to her mother's family. At age 15, she
started at Pembroke, stating that's when she discovered men. She tells of campus social life
and fraternity dances, the effects of Prohibition, and the deep influence of Dean Morriss. She
speaks of her misgivings with Brown's New Curriculum, her extensive teaching career--in which
she taught in Panama, China, and the Philippines--and her experience as a Navy wife. She
concludes her story, as many others do, by expressing her great appreciation for the
educational opportunities she had and her dismay that many others were not given the same
chances at education
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Class year")
- 1927
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Biographical note")
- Mary Carpenter(Sweet)
Emerson was born in Louisiana where she lived until the age of eleven. She moved to Rhode
Island with her mother when her father passed away. After graduating from Pembroke College in
Brown University in 1927, she received a Bachelor of Education degree from the Rhode Island
College of Education. She travelled extensively with her husband, an officer in the Navy, and
taught in various schools throughout the world. She had two children, born in the Philippines
and Hawaii. She passed away in May of 2004.
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- 1920s
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Academics
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Dating
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Employment
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Family
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Fraternities
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Marriage
- Genre (aat)
(authorityURI="http://vocab.getty.edy/aat/", valueURI="http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595")
- oral histories (literary works)