- Title Information
- Title
- Esther Amelia Dick, class of 1931
- Title Information:
Alternative
(displayLabel="null")
- Title
- Esther Amelia Dick Snell, class of 1931
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Dick, Esther Amelia
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewee
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Chase, Dick
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewer
- Type of Resource
- mixed material
- Origin Information
- Date Created
(keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
- 1982-11-26
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Abstract
- Dick begins by speaking of her childhood in Reading, PA; coming to Pembroke and
struggling early on with Meniere's syndrome; campus rules & requirements; clothing
standards and restrictions with alcohol and smoking; access to the Brown campus; she gives her
opinions of several professors. She discusses being deeply affected by the Great Depression
and cooking all her meals in the science labs. She speaks of being discriminated against as a
woman by the University as a student and later as a woman doing research in the sciences. She
mentions a potential discrimination lawsuit when she was threatened with being fired at age
60. She discusses going to live theater downtown Providence, and hearing Amelia Earhart speak
at Pembroke Chapel as well as hearing Pablo Casal play at Brown. Later in life she married
Walter Henry Snell in 1975.
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Class year")
- 1931
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Biographical note")
- Esther Amelia (Snell)
Dick grew up in Reading, Pennsylvania, where she went to an all-girls high school. She
graduated from Brown University in 1934 with a degree in botany. She worked at Brown from the
time of her graduation until her retirement in 1975. During her career as a botanist she
published numerous papers and a book on fungi in collaboration with her husband, Walter Henry
Snell, who was a professor at Brown.
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- 1930s
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Academics
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Clothing and fashion
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Dormitories
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Employment
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Family
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Gender expectations
- Genre (aat)
(authorityURI="http://vocab.getty.edy/aat/", valueURI="http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595")
- oral histories (literary works)