Charlotte Cook, class of 1964 Charlotte Cook Morse, class of 1964 Cook, Charlotte interviewee Baker, Dorcy interviewer mixed material 1985-11-10 eng 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. 1964 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. 1960s Activism Administration Birth Control Dating Minority Students oral histories (literary works)