Description
- Abstract:
- Doris begins Part 1 by discussing her early education and family life in Rhode Island. Doris talks about the expectations for "nice girls" at Brown in the 1920s, and about the curriculum at Brown, and the classes she took. She talks about 1920s fashion, dancing and bootleg liquor, including clubs around the city where students could go to drink. Doris talks about reading for classes and getting books from the public library when they were unavailable elsewhere. She mentions her friendship with Alice Chmielewski. She discusses working as a woman, the restriction that only single women could work, and losing her job when she married. Doris talks about playing Fist Ball, Hockey and Basketball in high school and at Brown. In Part 2, Doris begins by talking about her upbringing as opposed to how she raised her children. She talks about her daughters education and her role in their lives, including how one daughter went to Brown and was the first woman to gain her degree in aeronautics from Brown. Doris talks about Hoover and Roosevelt, particularly the influence of Eleanor Roosevelt. She also discusses her focus on local politics. She talks about issues such as abortion, gun laws and capital punishment. Part 3 is alternately audible and inaudible, but she discusses academics and administration at Brown, and student life at Brown. She also mentions the Brown/Pembroke merger, and its effects on the students. Part 4 begins with Doris discussing the Ivy Dance, and the social life of women at Pembroke and men at Brown. Doris talks about the strict physical education requirements at both schools. Doris talks about the various aspects of the Pembroke/Brown merger, and how students felt about it before and afterwards. Doris talks about social life including drinking and smoking, and about the policy that female students needed to get permission from the Dean before they could marry, a policy active into the 60s. Doris talks about student perception of co-education.
- Notes:
- Class year: 1928
- Biographical note: Doris was born in Foster, RI on July 9th 1907. Her father was a grocer and Lumberman, her mother raised her. Doris worked in Cranston and Providence as both a teacher and tutor at various times between 1928 and 1953. In 1955 she became the Executive Secretary of Pembroke Alumnae, where she worked until 1972.
Citation
"Doris Madeline Hopkins, class of 1928"
(1982).
Pembroke Center Oral History Collection.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:577724/
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Doris Madeline Hopkins, class of 1928 Part 1
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Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
This collection contains oral history interviews with alumnae of Brown University, which admitted its first women students in 1891. The Women's College at Brown was renamed Pembroke College in 1928, and in 1971, Pembroke College merged with the Men's College …...