Title Information
Title
Helen Elizabeth Butts, class of 1928
Title Information: Alternative (displayLabel="Pembroke title")
Title
Helen Elizabeth Butts Correll, class of 1928
Name: Personal
Name Part
Butts, Helen Elizabeth
Role
Role Term: Text (marcrelator)
interviewee
Name: Personal
Name Part
Renda, Mary
Role
Role Term: Text (marcrelator)
interviewer
Type of Resource
mixed material
Origin Information
Date Created (keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
1992-05-10
Language
Language Term: Code (ISO639-2B)
eng
Abstract
In Part 1 of this interview, Helen Elizabeth Butts Correll discusses her memories and feelings towards mandatory chapel services at Pembroke, the seperation of male and female students in lower level classes, and her academic experiences in the Biology department. She then discusses her life after Pembroke: teaching at Wellesley, her marriage and children, and the opportunities available to her as a woman in the 1930s. In Part 2, she discusses her perspectives on marriage, the attitudes towards women in science fields, social and dating life as an undergraduate, and her views on women's roles in society.
Note: biographical/historical (displayLabel="Class year")
1928
Note: biographical/historical (displayLabel="Biographical note")
Helen Elizabeth Butts was born in 1907 to George L. and Albertine C. Butts. After graduating from Brown, she earned her PhD in Zoology from Duke University. In 1937, she married Donovan Stewart Correll, with whom she researched and published as a botanist. She died in 1992.
Subject (Local)
Topic
1920s
Subject (Local)
Topic
Academics
Subject (Local)
Topic
Administration
Subject (Local)
Topic
Dating
Subject (Local)
Topic
Gender Expectations
Subject (Local)
Topic
Sexism
Genre (aat) (authorityURI="http://vocab.getty.edy/aat/", valueURI="http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595")
oral histories (literary works)