- Title Information
- Title
- Hilda Antoinette Calabro, class of 1945
- Title Information:
Alternative
(displayLabel="Pembroke title")
- Title
- Hilda Antoinette Calabro, class of 1945
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Calabro, Hilda Antoinette
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewee
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Kroll, Janet
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewer
- Type of Resource
- mixed material
- Origin Information
- Date Created
(keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
- 1985-01-16
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Abstract
- In this interview, Hilda Calabro discusses attending Pembroke College as a "city
girl," World War II and its effect on her education at Pembroke, and the treatment of female
students by male faculty and peers. She then describes her relationship with Dean Morriss and
other important role models, Pembroke's social rules and its lessons about appropriatebehavior
for women. She discusses dating between Brown and Pembroke students, her opinions on the
Brown/Pembroke merger, and her feelings on the changing conception of women's roles in society
and at Brown.
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Class year")
- 1945
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Biographical note")
- Hilda Antionette
Calabro was a native of Providence, RI. After graduating from Brown, she earned her PhD in
Modern Languages from Boston College and taught at the University of Rhode Island as a
professor of Education.
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- 1940s
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Administration
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- City Girls
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Dating
- 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)