- Title Information
- Title
- Charlotte Cook, class of 1964
- Title Information:
Alternative
(displayLabel="Pembroke title")
- Title
- Charlotte Cook Morse, class of 1964
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Cook, Charlotte
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewee
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Baker, Dorcy
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewer
- Type of Resource
- mixed material
- Origin Information
- Date Created
(keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
- 1985-11-10
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- 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.
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Class year")
- 1964
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="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.
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- 1960s
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Activism
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Administration
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Birth Control
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Dating
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Minority Students
- Genre (aat)
(authorityURI="http://vocab.getty.edy/aat/", valueURI="http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595")
- oral histories (literary works)