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Charlotte Cook, class of 1964

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Year:: 1985
Contributor:: Cook, Charlotte (interviewee); Baker, Dorcy (interviewer)
Genre:: oral histories (literary works)
Subject:: 1960s; Activism; Administration; Birth Control; Dating; Minority Students

Abstract:: In Part 1 of this interview, Charlotte Cook Morse discusses her upbringing, how she came to Pembroke with the help of scholarship aid, and her general academic experience during her college years. She then recalls an anecdone about dating, describes the dynamics between male and female students, and touches on the near-total lack of Black and other minority students. She then thoroughly discusses the strict parietal laws that came about during the office of Dean Pierrel. In Part 2, she finishes the section on parietal laws and discusses birth control. She then describes her graduate studies, career, and marriage, highlighting her position as a woman within the dynamics of these institutions.
Notes:: Class year: 1964; Biographical note: Charlotte Cook Morse was born in Washington, D.C. on October 26, 1942 and raised in Loudon County, Virginia. She earned her AB in from Brown in 1964, and her MA (1968) and PhD (1970) from Stanford University. A scholar of medieval literature, she taught in the English Department at Yale from 1969 until 1976, when she became a faculty member at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. She was twice the recipient of an NEH fellowship and retired in 2011.

"Charlotte Cook, class of 1964" (1985). Pembroke Center Oral History Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:577467/

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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