- Title Information
- Title
- Doris Madeline Hopkins, class of 1928
- Title Information:
Alternative
(displayLabel="Pembroke title")
- Title
- Doris Madeline Hopkins Stapleton, class of 1928
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Hopkins, Doris Madeline
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewee
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Fadiman, Ramsey M.
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewer
- Type of Resource
- mixed material
- Origin Information
- Date Created
(keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
- 1982-04-26
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- 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.
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Class year")
- 1928
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="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.
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- 1920s
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Academics
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Athletics
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- City Girls
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Clothing and Fashion
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Gender Expectations
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Marriage
- Genre (aat)
(authorityURI="http://vocab.getty.edy/aat/", valueURI="http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595")
- oral histories (literary works)