Description
- Abstract:
- In Part 1, Gloria begins by describing her relationship to her father, an immigrant cement business owner, her role as a “typical Italian daughter,” and how her father insisted she go to Pembroke. When discussing her life at Pembroke, she speaks about her academic record, the discovery of her passion for English, after an initial focus on biology, her dedication to her studies and the many student activities in which she was involved. The people who influenced her include Dean Morriss and Dean Lewis, English Professors Kapstein and Hunt, and Miss Rudd, the gym teacher. In Part 2, Gloria shares her experience attending school during wartime and how it was not a “normal” or desirable experience. She discusses a Japanese student whose parents were in an internment camp, the pressure “V-12” boys had to pass in order to not be sent to war. While the boys were away at war, girls started to have all their classes on the Brown campus and were able to go to the Blue Room without a date. She mentions the Honor Code and cheating and elaborates on what it meant to be a woman in the 1940s, “Posture Pictures,” married women students, and social pressure regarding a woman’s appearance. She discusses going to the Pembroke Library and the influence of the librarian, as well as taking Biology class with Walter Wilson.
- Notes:
- Class year: 1946
- Biographical note: Gloria Elizabeth DelPapa was born June 3, 1925, in Pawtucket, RI. Graduating as Valedictorian of her high school class, DelPapa studied English at Pembroke College where she would finish as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Soon after, she received her Masters degree in Education before pursuing a career as a teacher. She taught in the Pawtucket school system for 38 years saying she loved teaching and thought it was what she was destined to do. She was a member of the Pembroke College Club of Providence and spent time volunteering at Amos House, Pawtucket Elementary School, and St. Teresa's Church. She passed away on December 11, 2013.
Citation
"Gloria Elizabeth Del Papa, class of 1946"
(1985).
Pembroke Center Oral History Collection.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:578120/
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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 …...