- Title Information
- Title
- Caroline Flanders, class of 1929
- Title Information:
Alternative
(displayLabel="Pembroke title")
- Title
- Caroline Flanders, class of 1929
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Flanders, Caroline
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewee
- Type of Resource
- mixed material
- Origin Information
- Date Created
(keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
- 1989-10-19
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- 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.
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Class year")
- 1926
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="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.
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- 1920s
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Academics
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- City Girls
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Deans
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Employment
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Family
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Great Depression
- Subject (null)
- Topic
- Pembroke-Brown Merger
- Subject (null)
- Topic
- Professors
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Social Life
- Genre (aat)
(authorityURI="http://vocab.getty.edy/aat/", valueURI="http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595")
- oral histories (literary works)