- Title Information
- Title
- Katherine Virginia Faulkner, class of 1936
- Title Information:
Alternative
(displayLabel="Pembroke title")
- Title
- Katherine Virginia Faulkner Niles, class of 1936
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Faulkner, Katherine Virginia
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewee
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Gollag, Suzanne
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewer
- Type of Resource
- mixed material
- Origin Information
- Date Created
(keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
- 1985-01-13
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Abstract
- Katherine describes her early life in North Carolina; coming from a rural town
with little emphasis on education; her initial hardship adjusting to life at Pembroke; her
involvement in the Pembroke Christian Association (PCA); the peace movement between the two
world wars; fraternities; dorm life; and graduation. She discusses the death of her first
husband; the decision to go back to work; and supporting her family. She outlines her career
working for universities, museums, and corporations. Katherine describes herself a feminist
saying that the "greatest thing about the Women's Movement is that it has opened up
options that women have which were not there when (she) was young."
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Class year")
- 1936
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Biographical note")
- Katherine was born in
Hendrickson, North Carolina as the youngest of nine children. Convinced by one of her
brothers, she entered Pembroke in the early 1930s. While at Pembroke she dedicated herself to
promoting peace through the PCA in between the two World Wars. Following graduation Katherine
moved to Brooklyn with her husband and volunteered with the Junior League, New York Infirmary
for Women and Children. After her husband's early death Katherine worked at Sarah
Lawrence, Pace University, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and finally Pepsi Co. for whom,
at the time of the interview, she had been working 16 years. She married a second time and
died on February 21, 2002.
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- 1930s
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Activism
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Dating
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Dormitories
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Feminism
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Gender Expectations
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Marriage
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Sexism
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Social Life
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Student Activities
- Genre (aat)
(authorityURI="http://vocab.getty.edy/aat/", valueURI="http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595")
- oral histories (literary works)