- Title Information
- Title
- Mary Bernadette Banigan, class of 1931
- Title Information:
Alternative
(displayLabel="Pembroke title")
- Title
- Mary Bernadette Banigan, class of 1931
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Banigan, Mary Bernadette
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewee
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Levine, Jennifer
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewer
- Type of Resource
- mixed material
- Origin Information
- Date Created
(keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
- 1982-11-29
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- 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.
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Class year")
- 1931
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="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.
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- 1930s
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Academics
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Administration
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Athletics
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- City girls
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Clothing and fashion
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Employment
- Genre (aat)
(authorityURI="http://vocab.getty.edy/aat/", valueURI="http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595")
- oral histories (literary works)