Caroline Flanders, class of 1929

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Year:: 1989
Contributor:: Flanders, Caroline (interviewee)
Genre:: oral histories (literary works)
Subject:: 1920s; Academics; City Girls; Deans; Employment; Family; Great Depression; Pembroke-Brown Merger; Professors; Social Life

Abstract:: "Every girl should go to college." Flanders recalls telling her parents as a sophomore in high school. Flanders reflects on her arrival at Pembroke, taking many sociology classes on Brown's campus, and working as a babysitter to help pay tuition. She reflects on the newfound freedom and the individualistic attitude of the \u201cRoaring Twenties.\u201d She mentions the Charleston, the dances, Prohibition and drinking hot liquor from a flask. Flanders tells of going to graduate school in Cleveland and being the first woman in her family to have a college degree; of traveling to Paris, England, Bali and other destinations around the world. Flanders closes the interview by showing her gratitude for all the opportunities she has had. She considers herself very lucky.
Notes:: Class year: 1926; Biographical note: Caroline Flanders was born and raised on a farm in the Meshanticut Park section of western Cranston, Rhode Island. She graduated from Brown University in 1926 and went on to receive a degree in Social Work from Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. After college she lived in New York City working for the Charity Organization Community Service Society. Shortly after the Depression, during the era of Mayor La Guardia, she was the Chief of the Bureau of Information and Inquiry. Flanders liked travelling and visited Paris, England and Bali. She moved back to Rhode Island a few years after she retired. She passed away April,1993.

"Caroline Flanders, class of 1929" (1989). Pembroke Center Oral History Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:580781/

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 …
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