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   <mods:titleInfo>
      <mods:title>Caroline Flanders, class of 1929</mods:title>
   </mods:titleInfo>
   <mods:titleInfo type="alternative" displayLabel="Pembroke title">
      <mods:title>Caroline Flanders, class of 1929</mods:title>
   </mods:titleInfo>
   <mods:name type="personal">
      <mods:namePart>Flanders, Caroline</mods:namePart>
      <mods:role>
         <mods:roleTerm type="text" authority="marcrelator">interviewee</mods:roleTerm>
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   </mods:name>

   <mods:typeOfResource>mixed material</mods:typeOfResource>
   <mods:originInfo>
      <mods:dateCreated keyDate="yes" encoding="w3cdtf">1989-10-19</mods:dateCreated>
   </mods:originInfo>
   <mods:language>
      <mods:languageTerm type="code" authority="iso639-2b">eng</mods:languageTerm>
   </mods:language>
   <mods: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.</mods:abstract>
   <mods:note type="biographical/historical" displayLabel="Class year">1926</mods:note>
   <mods:note type="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.</mods:note>
   <mods:subject authority="local">
      <mods:topic>1920s</mods:topic>
   </mods:subject>
   <mods:subject authority="local">
      <mods:topic>Academics</mods:topic>
   </mods:subject>
   <mods:subject authority="local">
      <mods:topic>City Girls</mods:topic>
   </mods:subject>
   <mods:subject authority="local">
      <mods:topic>Deans</mods:topic>
   </mods:subject>
   <mods:subject authority="local">
      <mods:topic>Employment</mods:topic>
   </mods:subject>
   <mods:subject authority="local">
      <mods:topic>Family</mods:topic>
   </mods:subject>
   <mods:subject authority="local">
      <mods:topic>Great Depression</mods:topic>
   </mods:subject>
   <mods:subject authority="null">
      <mods:topic>Pembroke-Brown Merger</mods:topic>
   </mods:subject>
   <mods:subject authority="null">
      <mods:topic>Professors</mods:topic>
   </mods:subject>
   <mods:subject authority="local">
      <mods:topic>Social Life</mods:topic>
   </mods:subject>

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