Description
- Abstract:
- Mary Banigan begins her interview by discussing her family background; her experience at Classical High School; and her reasons for attending Pembroke College. Throughout Part 1, she describes her favorite professors; her relationships with them; and postgraduate options for an English major at Pembroke. She ends the section by explaining her time at Chapel and her extracurricular interests, particularly her intense involvement with Varsity Debating. In Part 2, Mary elaborates on her non-academic activities, including: playing basketball, fistball, the physical education requirement, and what sort of costume was appropriate for such activities. She also explains her life as a "city girl" of Pembroke, before discussing her training as a teacher and the effect of the Great Depression as well as her impressions of FDR. In Part 3, Mary discusses her opinion about the Brown/Pembroke merger. She recalls gender inequalities that women faced in the workplace and shares advice for the women of today, especially those seeking to be teachers.
- Notes:
- Class year: 1931
- Biographical note: Mary B. Banigan was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1910. Banigan attended Classical High School before graduating with a bachelor's degree in English from Brown University in 1931. After college, she spent forty-five years as a teacher and curriculum researcher, even returning to her Classical High School. In addition to her career as an educator, Banigan served as a American Association of University Women and was involved with institutions such as the Rhode Island recording secretary for the Council of Teachers of English, the Brown Alumni Association, and the Rhode Island Historical Society. She died on April 7, 2002 in North Providence, Rhode Island.
Citation
"Mary Bernadette Banigan, class of 1931"
(1982).
Pembroke Center Oral History Collection.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:577730/
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Mary Bernadette Banigan, class of 1931 Part 1
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Mary Bernadette Banigan, class of 1931 Part 1
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Mary Bernadette Banigan, class of 1931 Part 2
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Mary Bernadette Banigan, class of 1931 Part 2
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Mary Bernadette Banigan, class of 1931 Part 3
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Mary Bernadette Banigan, class of 1931 Part 3
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Mary Bernadette Banigan, class of 1931 Null
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Collection:
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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 …...