Description
- Abstract:
- In this interview Susan Graber Slusky discusses her family and the role it played in shaping her academic life. She talks about the reasons she chose Pembroke College and the challenges of being a woman in physics. Susan discusses the popular stereotypes of Pembroke women; the Student Strike during the Vietnam War; the Student Walkout of 1968; the New Curriculum; the Brown/Pembroke merger; working motherhood; and being a woman in a predominately male field.
- Notes:
- Class year: 1971
- Biographical note: Susan grew up in a suburb on Long Island, New York with her parents and older brother. Knowing she wanted to major in science, she chose Pembroke College, as a coordinate college that offered the benefits of a big university science education with the comfort and security of a small female college. Following Brown, she received a graduate degree in physics from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in physics from Princeton. She worked at Bell Laboratory doing applied research and development. Susan is married and has three children.
Citation
"Susan Graber, class of 1971"
(1985).
Pembroke Center Oral History Collection.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:580805/
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Susan Graber, class of 1971 Part 1
- Type: Audio
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Susan Graber, class of 1971 Part 1
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Susan Graber, class of 1971 Part 2
- Type: Audio
- Order: 2
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Susan Graber, class of 1971 Part 2
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Susan Graber, class of 1971
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Collection:
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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 …...