- 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)