Constance Hurley Andrews attended Brown during and after World War II. Returning veterans added much to classes--some knew more than professors about other countries. VE Day was very exciting--march through tunnel. Many fraternities formed most of the social life on campus at the time. Smoking was common.
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Class year: 1948
Biographical note: Constance Hurley Andrews was a Providence native; her father was a lawyer and Brown graduate. Her husband was a 1941 Brown graduate and a war veteran. Her marriage was planned early so she had no career plans. Eventually she got a library degree and so did her husband. She lived one year in Washington as her husband was called back for the Korean War. They traveled together a lot then and after with Brown groups.
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 …
